Books with author Conrad Richter

An adventurous story of a frontier boy raised by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic. When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now he must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and whose ways of dress and behavior are as strange to him as the ways of the forest are to them.

The Fields is the second novel in the saga of Sayward Luckett and the conquest of the first great American frontier. It tells the story of Sayward's marriage and the birth of her children. It captures her in the full glow of her womanhood. The time of the deep woods is passing. The game is leaving, the settlement that Sayward helped to found is growing up. And Sayward moves, with simplicity and grandeur, toward new challenges.

The lines of battle were drawn. Colonel Jim Brewton, lord of a vast domain of New Mexico grassland, threw his angry challenge at the crowding sodbusters and their protector, the United States Army of the West. Alone, Jim Brewton meant to stand off his government - and the relentless tides of history. The Sea of Grass is the story of the fight, of the man who waged it and of the beautiful woman he brought to that lawless land. It is a uniquely powerful and moving novel of the early Southwest and the American past by one of our greatest historical novelists.