This book describes the history of the Spanish missions in California and their effect on the life of the Indians there.

While walking through a forest of sequoias, a father tells his family the story of the tree's namesake. Sequoyah was a Cherokee man who invented a system of writing for his people. His neighbors feared the symbols he wrote and burned down his home. All of his work was lost, but, still determined, he tried another approach. The Cherokee people finally accepted the written language after Sequoyah taught his six-year-old daughter to read.

Based on the true story of the legendary White Woman of the Genesee. This is a fictionalized account of 12-year-old Mary Jemison who was kidnapped by a band of Indian warriors, lived many years with the Seneca, and then was given a chance to return to the world of white men.

Recounts how the Cherokees, after fighting to keep their land in the nineteenth century, were forced to leave and travel 1200 miles to a new settlement in Oklahoma, a terrible journey known as the Trail of Tears.

Recounts the lives and deeds of Sitting Bull, Cochise, Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and other Indian leaders and discusses their history, customs, and daily life of many of the Indian tribes including the Kiowas, Apache, and Shoshoni.

Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Butch Cassidy, Killin' Jim Miller, Belle Starr, Calamity Jane, Annie Oakley, Gen. Sam Houston, Chief Crazy Horse, Jim Bridger, Jedediah Smith, James P. Beckwourth, Kit Carson, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Bass Reeves, Bill Tighman, Pat Garrett, Tom Horn, Buffalo Bill Cody, Roy Bean, Bat Masterson, Judge Isaac Parker, Nat Love, Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Charley Parkhurst, Nellie Cashman, Adah Isaacs Menken, Sitting Bull,...

"A magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, revealing in groundbreaking new detail the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Big Horn and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars. Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull: Their names are iconic, their significance in American history undeniable. Together, these two Lakota chiefs, one a fabled warrior and...