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"This is one of Mr. Steele's best books, an engrossing, realistic story of a Tennessee mountain boy who, during the Civil War, comes to realize that w...
When Chad and his family flee to a fort in the Tennessee wilderness to escape an attack by Chickamauga Indians, the presence of the family of a white ...
Biography of a surgeon and Indian trader who assisted in the English colonization of the Carolinas....
A young Tennessee boy in the early 1800's goes on a buffalo hunt to prove his manhood....
After they learn their father is missing, Jess and his sister join a wagon train going to Oregon. Grades 4 and up....
Laird, Matt, and Jane are captured by a band of Indians, but they are finally able to escape and get back to the settlement....
A Narrative of Juan Ortiz
After living eleven years among Indians in Florida, a Spaniard guides De Soto's troops in their fruitless search for gold....
A tall tale about Daniel Boone and young Aaron Adamsale who venture into Kentucky, a land thought to be filled with fierce monsters....
A young boy guides a naturalist from Philadelphia on an expedition through the Tennessee wilderness....
Young Swamp Fox
A brief biography of the southern plantation owner whose knowledge of the swamps helped keep the Revolution alive in the South....
While attempting to charm the Cherokees into loyalty to England, Sir Alexander Cuming is offered by them the crown of the Cherokee kingdom....
Secrets of Indian Burial Mounds
Reveals what is known about four groups of prehistoric Indians from studies of their burial mounds along the Ohio River and its tributaries....
The True Stories of Six Pioneers
True stories of six pioneers who had varied reasons for journeying westward into the American wilderness in the 18th century. Grades 6-9....
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A tall tale of young Andy Jackson's travels to bring back a water well to his drought-parched friends. Grades 4-6....
What begins as a bear-hunting trip for Davy Crockett in 1811, turns out to be much more than he bargained for when he is forced to cope with a comet a...
A young Indian novitiate accompanies a party led by his priest teacher on the long and dangerous journey in search of the sacred place where their tri...
The Search for Gold
The effect De Soto and his kind had on the shaping of early events in the New World is shown through the story of Lucas, a young boy, on the 1539 expe...
An American Journey
Relates the roles played by Thomas Walker, Elisha Wallen, Daniel Boone and John Filson in blazing a trail over the Appalachians to the rich land of Ke...