Frank Carlson Library

A young indian boy must face growing up in a tribe with the different ways of living

In 1956 in Half Moon, North Carolina, thirteen-year-old Edie Jo comes to terms with her own prejudice and the death of a friend.

Saloon proprietor Vin Lockhart is known throughout Denver as a respectable businessman. He also has a reputation for quickness on the draw--a skill sure to come in handy when his old Oglala friends solicit his aid. It seems treacherous whites are once again intent on pushing the Oglaglas from their already diminished lands. A man of honor through and through, Vin commits himself to their fight. But in these rough and tumble times, even the best gunslinger...

Relates the story of Jubal Sackett, a wilderness explorer, whose courage and determination to blaze new trails makes him a legend in the wild West.

Remembering her mother's words, an eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.

"A Council of Dolls is the moving and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award-winning Sioux author Mona Susan Powers, spanning four generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day"-- "From the midcentury metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakh©Øota people to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the tale of three extraordinary women, told in part through the...

"An unexpected death on a lonely road outside of Utah's Bears Ears National Monument raises questions for Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito. Why would a seasoned outdoorsman and well-known paleontologist freeze to death within walking distance of his car? A second death brings more turmoil. Who is the unidentified man killed during a home invasion where nothing much seems to have been taken? Why was he murdered? The Bears...

Pica's mittens are always turning up in strange places, but when he finds them keeping the newborn puppies warm, he decides to leave them until spring.

Orphaned by an Indian raid while traveling West with a wagon train, fifteen-year-old Carrie Hill is befriended by the English trapper Beaver Dick and taken to live with his Indian wife, Jenny, and their six children.

Former Army sniper Mercy Gunderson returns to her struggling South Dakota ranch and investigates the suspicious death of a Native American teenager, a killing that is met with indifference by local authorities.