William O Steele

Fourteen-year-old Chris, bitterly hating the Yankees for invading his Tennessee mountain home, learns a difficult lesson about the waste of war and the meaning of tolerance and courage when he reports the approach of a Yankee supply troop to the Confederates, only to learn that his brother is probably part of that troop.

An Indian attack on a fort in the Tennessee wilderness makes young Chad Rabun realize that it is wrong to condemn one person for the misdeeds of another.

Tells the stories of six pioneers, an Indian trader, an author searching for the lost tribes of Israel, a white woman who escaped Indian captivity, an explorer, a colonizer who tried to buy Kentucky, and a Moravian missionary, and how they settled the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.

After living eleven years among Indians in Florida, a Spaniard guides De Soto's troops in their fruitless search for gold.

Reveals what is known about four groups of prehistoric Indians from studies of their burial mounds along the Ohio River and its tributaries.