Central Kansas Library System

When his little brother is carried off by raiding Comanches, fourteen-year-old Lige disguises himself as an Indian and joins a former slave in a bold rescue attempt.

"After Amanda Barker loses her family to a cholera epidemic while on a wagon train, she decides to go on alone to fulfill her family's dream of a new life in California. However, the train captain refuses to let Amanda continue to San Francisco unescorted. Amanda, therefore, readily accepts the invitation of Charles Pierce, a handsome, charming hotelier, and his "mother" to accompany them. Yet Amanda is troubled by the warnings of Luke West, an Indian...

A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.

"August 13, 1868: Sarah Catherine White, a 17-year-old girl, new to the Kansas frontier. Captured by Cheyenne warriors and thrust into an unknown future, completely foreign to her. Subjected to indignities beyond her imaginings, bitter cold temperatures, and near starvation, she persevered through all with fierce determination and self-preservation, all the while believing her entire family had been murdered." --

In the spring of 1851, nine members of the Oatman family set out for California on the old Santa Fe Trail. Seventy miles from the California border they were attacked by Indians, who massacred the entire family, except a boy. Lorenzo (mistakenly left for dead), and two girls, Ann and Olive. The girls were taken into captivity, soon to be sold to other Indians farther west. Lorenzo, though badly wounded, found his way back to civilization. As soon...