17 best-selling nonfiction books like Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians by Herman Lehmann

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Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians

By: Herman Lehmann

4.17

Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition

"Lehmann's memoir is quite fantastic-sounding at times, but is regarded as one of the best of that …

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1. Six Years With the Texas Rangers: 1875-1881

By: James B. Gillett

4.14

Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition

Texas in the nineteenth century was a dangerous place. The Texas Rangers were there to keep people … read more

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2. The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier

By: Scott Zesch

3.73

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Trade… read more

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3. Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot: Hugh Monroe's Story of His First Year on the Plains (1919)

By: James Willard Schultz

4.23

Format: 343 pages,

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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4. The Diary of a Forty-Niner

By: Chauncey L. Canfield

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

1849, California. The Gold Rush had begun. 300,000 gold-seekers left their homes, grabbed what they… read more

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5. Across The Plains In 1844

By: None , None

3.85

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Catherine Sager's story is among the most gripping firsthand accounts of life in the American west … read more

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6. 21 Months a Captive: Rachel Plummer and the Fort Parker Massacre (Annotated)

By: Rachel Plummer

3.81

Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition

This 2020 edition contains newly unearthed information about the participants. On May 19, 1836, For… read more

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7. Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians

By: Herman Lehmann

4.17

Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition

"Lehmann's memoir is quite fantastic-sounding at times, but is regarded as one of the best of that … read more

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  • american history
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  • the united states of america
  • westerns
  • historical
  • native american
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  • native americans
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8. The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace: The Texas Ranger and Hunter

By: John Crittenden Duval

3.85

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

At six foot two inches and two hundred and forty pounds, Big-Foot Wallace cut a formidable figure a… read more

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9. Fifty Years On The Trail: The True Story of John Y. Nelson, Frontiersman, Scout, and Guide

By: John Nelson

4.34

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

Frontiersman, military scout, interpreter, guide, police chief, and saloon owner; John Young Nelson… read more

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Cover of My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting by William Thomas  Hamilton

10. My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting

By: William Thomas Hamilton

4.17

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

Of course I knew how to scalp, and soon accomplished the feat, much to his satisfaction, for he sai… read more

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11. Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians

By: Fanny Kelly

3.87

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

“I was a member of a small company of emigrants, who were attacked by an overwhelming force of host… read more

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"Experience is a great teacher, and we were then in her school, and learned that while hope offers the faintest token of refuge, we pause upon the fearful brink of eternity, and look back for rescue."

-Fanny Kelly, Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians

"Mother! what a world of affection is comprised in that single word; how little do we in the giddy round of youthful pleasure and folly heed her wise counsels. How lightly do we look upon that zealous…"

-Fanny Kelly, Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians

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12. My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet (1907)

By: James Willard Schultz

4.43

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

"A unique picture of Indian life on the plains when there was still warfare between the tribes." -A… read more

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13. Adventures of a Mountain Man: The Narrative of Zenas Leonard

By: Zenas Leonard

3.95

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

In the spring of 1830, Leonard, a native of Clearfield, Pennsylvania embarked on an expedition acro… read more

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Cover of By Ox Team to California: Crossing the Plains in 1860 by Lavinia Honeyman Porter

14. By Ox Team to California: Crossing the Plains in 1860

By: Lavinia Honeyman Porter

4.21

Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition

“We then determined to use the small remnant of our fortune to provide a suitable outfit for a leng… read more

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Cover of Journal Of A Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843 by Osborne Russell

15. Journal Of A Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843

By: Osborne Russell

3.83

Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1834, Osborne Russell joined an expedition from Boston, under the direction of Nathaniel J. Wyet… read more

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16. Left by the Indians

By: Ethan E. Harris

3.75

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

This is a first-hand account one of the worst wagon train massacres in the Old West. After 45 days … read more

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"They were mounted on horses and were to go ahead and clear the way for us to follow with our wagons. But instead of doing so, the discharged soldiers put spurs to the horses, which belonged to Mr. Va…"

-Ethan E. Harris, Left by the Indians

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17. Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

By: Sarah Raymond Herndon

3.84

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

“Why are we here? Why have we left home, friends, relatives, associates, and loved ones, who have m… read more

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Cover of Forty Years a Fur Trader On the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872 by Charles Larpenteur

18. Forty Years a Fur Trader On the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872

By: Charles Larpenteur

3.98

Format: 169 pages, Kindle Edition

"The life-record kept by Charles Larpenteur is one of our most important sources of information con… read more

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19. Across the Plains in 1884

By: Catherine Sager

3.65

Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition

In April 1844 the Sager family took part in the great westward migration and started their journey … read more

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20. First Girl in the West

By: Eliza Spalding Warren

3.92

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

Eliza Spalding Warren was the very first pioneer girl to grow up in the mountain west. Her story is… read more

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Cover of Seven Years with the Indians (Expanded, Annotated) by Owen P. Dabney

21. Seven Years with the Indians (Expanded, Annotated)

By: Owen P. Dabney

3.83

Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition

When the Ainsleys joined the westward expansion of the U.S. in 1862, they could never have imagined… read more

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18 Top history books like Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians by Herman Lehmann

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4.14

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3.73

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James Willard Schultz

4.23

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Rachel Plummer

3.81

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James P. Beckwourth

4.16

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James Willard Schultz

4.23

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Steven Rinella

3.50

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