Alamosa Public Library

A companion novel to The light in the forest. A white girl searches for her identity after having been taken prisoner as a child, adopted into an Indian family, married to an Indian, then forcibly returned to her white family.

Follows the events of 1880 when U.S. Army troops expelled the Yampa Utes from Colorado to a Utah reservation. These events are viewed through the eyes of a teenage Indian girl who then tries to come to terms with the events and the effect on her life.

The story of a young lad who's day dreams were of legendary heroes of the West, like Buffalo Bill Cody, until his family is attached by Commanches and he is taken prisoner.

A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.

"Once it was one of the most infamous events in early American history. Today, it has been nearly forgotten. In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little town in western Massachusetts there stands what once was the most revered relic from the history of early New England: the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre of 1704. This impregnable barricade--known to early Americans as 'The Old Indian...

"After visiting his late mother's people on the Mescalero reservation, Comanche tribal policeman Daniel Killstraight waits to catch a train home when local cowboys bring disturbing news: an Apache has brutally murdered a teenage girl in the railroad town of Deming and locals want to lynch him. Killstraight has no jurisdiction in this territory and he doesn't care much for Apaches. He knows nothing about Deming, the murdered girl, or the accused...

Pioneers describe their experiences as captives of the Indians and portray Indian society and culture.

"August 18, 1862. On the Sioux reservation in southwestern Minnesota, Indians desperate for food and freedom rise up against whites in the region. Sarah Wakefield, the wife of a physician, is taken captive with her two babies by the warrior Ćaske. As war rages, little does she know how entwined their lives will become. This is the gripping story of two people, caught between worlds, who are willing to do almost anything to defend those they care...

Shares accounts of men, women, and children who were taken captive by Native Americans in the years between 1830 and 1885, focusing on events that occurred in Texas, featuring profiles of the victims before capture, explaining how they became captives, and discussing the effects of their captivity on the rest of their lives.