Faye Boer

This is the story of the great Oglala Sioux war chief who joined forces with Sitting Bull to keep the Black Hills and other traditional Sioux lands free of white settlers. This is the story of the great Oglala Sioux war chief who joined forces with Sitting Bull to keep the Black Hills and other traditional Sioux lands free of white settlers. Crazy …

From California's 49ers to the Klondikers in the Yukon, men and women with a lust for fortune and adventure stampeded to the gold fields of the West. All the biggest gold rushes of the 19th-century frontier are recounted in this exciting volume.

More chronicles of renowned Native leaders who grappled with the catastrophic arrival of foreigners on their soil, and the measures they took to protect their people: · Tecumseh, the Shawnee leader who tried to unite all tribes into a single alliance · Geronimo, who fought to keep his people's homeland in New Mexico · Crowfoot, the Blackfoot who …

In a small Ohio town, a student is a suspect in the mysterious drowning death--and ghostly return--of a beautiful young teacher. Construction workers in Austin, Texas, quit out of fear or sheer frustration when ghosts of mischievous schoolchildren hamper the demolition of Metz Elementary School. And after a high school junior dies in a car accident …

John George Kootenai Brown could boast countless adventures: serving in the British Army in India, hunting buffalo on the plains of Manitoba, riding Pony Express for the U.S. Army and fighting as a staunch conservationist in the region that eventually became Waterton Lakes National Park. Follow along in this exciting account of his incredible explo …

Champion of a people or traitorous rabble-rouser? Political visionary or religious lunatic? Louis Riel is one of the most ambiguous figures in Canadian history, a man who stood and fell for the Métis nation. Read about the fascinating western icon in this well-paced biography. The doomed struggle of Louis Riel and his Métis people against the new …