Wayah was troubled. The Cherokees of the village of Chota were sending him to live for a year among the white men. He was to attend the Brafferton School for Indians at Williamsburg, in the colony of Virginia. Wayah did not want to go. How Wayah survives the white man's touch is author William O. Steele's exciting tale.

wayah of the real people

William O. Steele

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

Sturdy library binding. Striking drawn illustrations. Reveals what is known about four groups of prehistoric Indians from studies of their burial mounds along the Ohio River and its tributaries.

Talking Bones: Secrets of Indian Burial Mounds

Harper&Row

Andy Jackson's Water Well [Hardcover] [Jun 01, 1959] William O. Steele and Michael Ramus ...

Andy Jackson's Water Well

Harcourt, Brace and Company

The Buffalo Knife

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.

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Harcourt Childrens Books

Davy Crockett's Earthquake

Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc.

Chad's family takes refuge from vicious Chickamauga raiding parties with a desperate group in a wilderness fort. But not every danger is outside the wall. . . .

Flaming Arrows

HARCOURT, BRACE

Two ill-tempered brothers mend their ways after an encounter with an awesome creature in the woods.

The Spooky Thing

Harcourt,brace & World

"How come they don't get on back here?" Elaphelet Birdwell asked himself. "They been gone long enough to find forty-leven trails by now." It wasn't right for them to take off and leave an eleven-year-old boy all alone with the old man and the loaded pack horses while they tramped through the woods hunting a way down off this mountaintop. Somebody should have stayed to keep him company, one of the hunters with his rifle. This was Injun country, if it was anybody's. Whoever the redskins found here, they weren't going to feel kindly toward....

Trail Through Danger

Westward Adventure: The True Stories of Six Pioneers

Harcourt,Brace&World,Inc

Illustrations by Paul Galdone. A ten-year-old boy, Flan Taylor, journeys across the frontier of the 1780's.

Wilderness Journey

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