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When May Dodd journeys west into the unknown, it's a far better fate than the life she left behind. Committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for loving a man beneath her station, May's only hope of freedom is a secret government program sending "civilized" women to become the brides of Cheyenne warriors. This is the story of May's breathtaking adventures caught between two worlds, loving two men, living two lives.
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Sleepy Benteen County, Kansas, turns frantic on election day. Sheriff English, better known as Englishman, faces his toughest re-election challenge yet. The radical religious right is out to unseat him, their candidate an Iraq war hero. But Englishman's only available deputy isn't winning him votes. That very morning, while pursuing a vehicle, the hurried deputy rammed a school bus carrying the Benteen County teen choir.
Englishman's brother, Mad...
3) Wild winds
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
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English
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With her trademark combination of intrigue, adventure and sensual romance, New York Times bestselling author Janelle Taylor crafts novels that hold readers spellbound time and time again, now, she recreates the rugged grandeur of the old southwest in her lushest, most romantic love story yet.
Feisty and beautiful Maggie Malone is determined to earn her livelihood as a private detective--a daunting profession unheard of for a woman on her own in the...
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Forge
Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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Barnaby Skye, the earthy deserter from the Royal Navy who has carved a career in the Rocky Mountains as a trapper, guide, and magnet for adventure, drifts south to Mexican territory with his Crow Indian wife, Many Quills Woman (or "Victoria," as he calls her), in this thirteenth and newest of the Skye chronicles.
At Bent's Fort on the Mexican frontier, the Skyes agree to help a mysterious Cheyenne woman, Standing Alone, locate her two children who...
8) Destiny mine
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Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
[1995]
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English
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KIONEE HAS BEEN TRAINED FRO HER FIFTH SUMMER TO WEAR THE MASK OF A HANUEVA TIVA, OR WARRIOR.
10) Wyoming wildcat
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Harlequin historicals ; 676
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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Ryan Tolliver Was On The Trail Of A Woman
The Wyoming rancher was only looking for the promised reward when he set off to track down the mysterious Molly Ivins, missing some eighteen years. But after a nasty fall robbed him of his memory, things got a lot more complicated.
Tragically orphaned at seven, Molly Ivins fell into the caring hands of a Cheyenne medicine man and came to be known as Moon Hawk. Yet when a handsome white man with amnesia burst...
11) The canyon
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Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
1953.
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English
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Deep in Cheyenne territory, years prior to the arrival of European settlers, a war hungry group of Cheyenne Indians meet and plan to attack a rival tribe. One young Cheyenne, Little Bear, refuses to fight. Little Bear has earned admiration for his courage and skill in hunting, but now, as a rite of passage into adulthood, he must spend two weeks alone in the wilds, eating only what nature provides. During this retreat, in the dark of night, he falls...
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Forge
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2001.
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English
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"There is no word in the Cheyenne language for forgiveness." On the day after Thanksgiving, 1868, George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry attack a sleeping Cheyenne village on the banks of the Washita. Ironically, it later becomes known that the village attacked was that of Black Kettle, the foremost peace chief of the Cheyenne Nation. Amidst the heartless and senseless slaughter of men, women, and children, the Seventh Cavalry discovers a...
14) Hell and back
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"What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty, young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies--along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust--something...
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2017.
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"9 March 1876 My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of...
16) Cheyenne amber
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Signet
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Boston-born Laura Cheney finds herself widowed and alone in the wilderness of 1864 Colorado with her newborn son. When her baby is kidnapped, Laura turns to Deke Sheridan, a feared renegade raised by the Cheyenne. Laura is willing to risk life and limb to save her child, and Deke soon follows suit to prove himself to this intoxicating beauty.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
1978.
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English
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When Clay Holley's wife and Tom Denton's wife and son are captured by hostile Indians, the two men embark on a relentless pursuit of the savages. The chase leads to Tom Denton's death, and results in Clay and Tom's brother, Frank, joining Custer's campaign against the Indians at the Washita. The campaign offers the last glimmer of hope for rescuing the captives.
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Beaver Killer, an infant survivor of the Washita Massacre, goes to school at Fort McPerson to learn the white man's ways. As a teen his grandfather gives him a mission--the destruction of General Wesley Hazlitt, the officer who had organized the attack. Many adventures over many years bring him to his destined moment"--
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BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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When May Dodd journeys west into the unknown, it's a far better fate than the life she left behind. Committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for loving a man beneath her station, May's only hope of freedom is a secret government program sending "civilized" women to become the brides of Cheyenne warriors. This is the story of May's breathtaking adventures caught between two worlds, loving two men, living two lives.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Matt Talbot was a scout with Sharp Grover and Bill Comstock at a parley with Cheyenne chief Bull Bear along the Solomon River in western Kansas. It was 1868, and the army was concerned about an uprising among the young braves. Comstock was so confident that the trio arrived unescorted. The chief would tell them nothing, but granted them safe conduct out of the camp - until the sentinels were replaced by a band of hostile braves who attacked them,...