Don Coldsmith
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Spanish bit saga volume 2
Description
Before the outsider, now Chief Heads Off, brought the Elk Dog to The People their strategy had always been to flee or hide from their mortal enemies, the Head Splitters.
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Spanish bit saga volume 4
Description
The younger son of a legendary chief must make his own contribution to the People by learning the way of the buffalo from an ancient medicine man.
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Spanish bit saga volume 3
Description
A Spanish father searches for his long-lost son north of the Mexican colonies; his son, meanwhile, has become chief of his kidnapper's tribe. When the father falls into the hands of his son's tribe's greatest enemy, trouble brews.
5) Thunderstick
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Spanish bit saga volume 21
Description
Singing Wolf, son of Elk-dog tribe leader Walks in the Sun, has reached manhood. He has proved himself on his first hunt and looks forward to marrying his childhood friend Rain. When a young warrior from another tribe arrives with a powerful magic, Singing Wolf realizes he has a rival for both tribal leadership and the affections of Rain.
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Rivers West volume 2
Pub. Date
c1989
Description
A semi-historical novel set in 1844, the time of the Westward expansion. Central in the story is the Booth family. Gabe Booth, a mountain man and scout, joins up with John Charles Fremont. This is a tale of the push to open the West to settlers and the struggle against the Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, and Arapahoe Indians who fight desperately to save their ancient civilization.
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Spanish bit saga volume 23
Pub. Date
1995
Description
An old Indian woman rescues a child with smallpox in one of the epidemics which decimated the Indians in the 18th Century. The child is the only survivor of another tribe and Running Deer's people warn her not to touch the girl. But Running Deer has no reason for living. Since her husband died she has been planning suicide. The child recovers and Running Deer finds a new reason to live--until the girl decides she wants to be reunited with her own...
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Spanish bit saga volume 18
Description
To limit the influence of the French along the Mississippi River, the Spanish send out an expedition to capture Indians allied with the French. The result is a massacre by the Pawnee. A young Spanish captive is a slave at first, but later marries into the Pawnee tribe. This is the eighteenth novel in the popular Spanish Bit series that chronicles early contact between native Americans and white settlers and explorers.
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Spanish bit saga volume 11
Pub. Date
1987
Description
The eleventh book in the Spanish Bit Saga in which French Sergeant Cartier joins an expedition down the Mississippi, but deserts below the mouth of the Missouri to travel overland in search of the People and his wife's family.
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Spanish bit saga volume 24
Description
A youth in a tribe of Plains Indians gives up a girlfriend to serve as a holy man's pipe bearer, first step in becoming a holy man himself. The novel follows his training in communicating with spirits and in preserving tribal legends and culture. By the author of Child of the Dead.
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Great Plains saga volume 1
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
A fictionalized saga about the settling of Kansas, covering over 300 years from the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors to the blazing of the Santa Fe Trail, and bringing to life characters from the many different heritages that vied for control of the North American prairie.
18) Walks in the sun
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Spanish bit saga volume 20
Pub. Date
1992
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Description
Walks in the Sun, a young Indian holy man of the People, is torn by a split among his friends and family.