comanche

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Quanah Parker

2004
A biography of Quanah Parker, a spiritual and political leader of the Comanche people in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Comanche

2004
A discussion of the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Comanche Indians.

Season of yellow leaf

1983
A ten-year-old white girl who is stolen by the Comanches in the 1830's gradually adjusts to her new life and not only learns their ways but becomes one of them.

Wait for me, watch for me, Eula Bee

1978
With his father and brother serving in the Confederate Army and the rest of his family murdered in a Comanche raid of their west Texas farm, 13-year-old Lewallen seeks to free himself and his younger sister from their Indian captivity.

Quanah Parker

Comanche chief
1992
Examines the life and career of the Comanche chieftain.

Fire on the hillside

2001
Katherine is upset when her family leaves their home in Germany to settle in Fredericksburg, Texas, and then when her father joins a group hoping to make peace with the Comanche, she worries even more.

Comanche peace pipe

2001
Eleven-year-olds Fish Rawlings, heading across Texas on a wagon train, and Hunting Bear, a Comanche riding his first war trail, meet and become friends in spite of having been taught to hate each other, and soon discover they are the only ones who can stop the hostilities between their people.

The Comanche

1989
Examines the culture, history, and changing fortunes of the Comanche Indians.

The legend of the bluebonnet

an old tale of Texas
1996
A retelling of the Comanche Indian legend of how a little girl's sacrifice brought the flower called bluebonnet to Texas.

Plains warrior

Chief Quanah Parker and the Comanches
1996
A biography of Quanah Parker, the son of a Comanche war chief and a kidnapped white settler, looking at the role he played in leading his people in battle and in defeat.

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