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Titus Bass novels volume 7
Publisher
Bantam Books
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Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
The continuing adventures of Titus Bass, a 19th century fur trapper married to an Indian woman as he tries to survive despite over-trapping by such giants as the Hudson Bay Company. In this seventh installment Bass fights wolves.
Author
Series
Titus Bass novels volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
In the early 1800s, a Kentucky farm boy abandons the security of home, and his girlfriend, for a life of adventure. At 16, Titus Bass runs away to become a deckhand on a Mississippi flatboat, the first of many frontier escapades. But he tires of adventure and becomes a blacksmith.
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Not Supplied
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Not Supplied
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English
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To get out of the Union prison at Rock Island, Illinois, Confederate Jonah Hook volunteers to go West and fight Indians as a "galvanized Yankee." When the Civil War and his service for the hated North end, he returns home to find that his family has been abducted by a roaming band of Mormon Danites. Jonah's turbulent search for them over the Western plains develops into a stunning narrative of violent life on the frontier.
Author
Series
Titus Bass novels volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Grizzled mountain man Titus Bass experiences a series of frontier adventures, from a searing fight with the Comanche to a chase after horse thieves.
Author
Series
Titus Bass novels volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Titus encounters a magnificent sight: a dark and thundering herd of buffalo as far as the eye can see. It's a world of beauty and danger--a world where survival depends on a man's willingness to risk death.
6) Wind walker
Author
Series
Titus Bass novels volume 9
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
As mountain man Titus Bass watches his lifestyle fade away as the Rocky Mountain wilderness becomes home to an ever-growing number of settlers seeking a "civilized" life, he struggles to maintain his dignity and feed his family.
Author
Series
Titus Bass novels volume 8
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A fur trapper faces ruin as civilization drives game away in the Old West. But Titus Bass is an enterprising man and he retools, joining a band of horse thieves. The band skirmishes with Mexican soldiers and saves white settlers from an Indian rebellion. By the author of Ride the Moon Down
Author
Series
Plainsmen volume 9
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
After his disastrous stalemate on Powder River, Crook retreats south for the winter. In spring his is the first column to set off for Indian Country. From his supply base at Goose Creek, Crook plunges after the hostiles reportedly on Rosebud Creek. Caught napping three months to the day after the fight on Powder River, Crook wages his personal duel with Crazy Horse in a dramatic day-long battle just eight days before Crazy Horse will crush Custer....
Author
Series
Son of the Plains volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Custer and the Seventh march from Fort Abraham Lincoln at the same time Sitting Bull has his fateful vision of "soldiers falling into camp," both tragic figures to collide on the Little Bighorn in this tale drawn from the battlefield's archeological evidence blended with the long-ignored recollections of the warriors who crushed Custer.
10) Long winter gone
Author
Series
Son of the Plains volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
After a year of retirement at the end of the Civil War, George Armstrong Custer is summoned by General Sheridan and appointed to the cavalry to quell the Indians of the Southern plains territory. Success in this area leads Sheridan to have Custer subdue the Sioux and Cheyenne of the Northern plains. Custer carries on an extra-marital affair with a young Indian girl. This novel is a prelude to the Battle of Little Big Horn.