Early United States
Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears is over, but the Cherokee who survived the punishing winter march from North Carolina to Oklahoma…
The Good Thief
Twelve year-old Ren does not have much hope of being adopted from St. Anthony’s orphanage at which he was abandoned…
The Believer
Kentucky, 1833. When Elizabeth Duncan’s father dies suddenly, the young woman finds herself responsible for her brother Payton and sister…
Forever Waiting
The Duvoisin family saga that began with A Silent Ocean Away and Decision and Destiny wraps up with this final…
Crows & Cards
Twelve-year-old Zebulon Crabtree doesn’t want to be steaming down the Mississippi on a riverboat in 1849. His father is sending…
An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Life of General James Wilkinson
James Wilkinson (1757-1825) is one of the most obscure figures in American history. His life was spent as a Revolutionary…
Across the Endless River
The youngest member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau became a ward of William Clark, then a trapper…
Angel Train
The Pilgrim’s Way, a devout religious community in Pennsylvania, decides to accept the government’s offer of free land in the…
Sally Hemings
I am old enough to remember the furor this book caused when it first came out in 1979, presenting in…
Surrender the Wind
Revolutionary War veteran Seth Braxton loses his father in America and his grandfather in England, thus inheriting estates in both…
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