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.

While attempting to charm the Cherokees into loyalty to England, Sir Alexander Cuming is offered by them the crown of the Cherokee kingdom.

A young pioneer boy must adjust to settled frontier life when his father leaves him with relatives and returns to the woods.

Two stories of foolish Tom and his dog, Zip, describing how they made an unbeatable team against crafty neighbors.

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

A young boy guides a naturalist from Philadelphia on an expedition through the Tennessee wilderness.

When Chad and his family flee to a fort in the Tennessee wilderness to escape an attack by Chickamauga Indians, the presence of the family of a white renegade who joined the Indians causes additional tensions.

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

Until he learns the reason for the arrangement, a young Cherokee boy has mixed emotions about living for a year with a white man.