New Releases by William O. Steele

A bitter view of the Civil War from the point of view of one boy whose brother fights for the wrong side.

Left to die by his prehistoric family band, a wounded young hunter must find and join a new group if he is to survive.

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

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

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

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

Biography of a surgeon and Indian trader who assisted in the English colonization of the Carolinas.

Wayah the Wolf, a Cherokee boy, goes to the Brafferton School for Indians at Williamsburg to live for a year.

A brief biography of the southern plantation owner whose knowledge of the swamps helped keep the Revolution alive in the South.

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.

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

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.

A tall tale about Daniel Boone and young Aaron Adamsale who venture into Kentucky, a land thought to be filled with fierce monsters.

A young Tennessee boy in the early 1800's goes on a buffalo hunt to prove his manhood.

The story of the wealthy Spaniard who came to the New World to seek glory and who, in 1541, became the first European to reach the Mississippi River.

After they learn their father is missing, Jess and his sister join a wagon train going to Oregon. Grades 4 and up.

Laird, Matt, and Jane are captured by a band of Indians, but they are finally able to escape and get back to the settlement.

Story of an eleven-year-old boy's efforts to adjust to a Tennessee frontier village during the 1780s.

In 1782, nine-year-old Andy, his family, and neighbors make a dangerous journey by flatboat down a thousand miles of the Tennessee River to make a new home.