Product Description: The Infinite Dream, told with all the historical detail which made Allan W. Eckert famous, explores America's westward expansion beyond the Mississippi River, 1834 - 1848. In this period before the Civil War, restless pioneers were casting eager eyes on the lands between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean...read more

Product Description: Blue Jacket s popularity inspired Allan Eckert to write Johnny Logan, the true story of a Shawnee who became a U.S. spy, and it was first published in 1983. Logan was one of the greatest Indian friends the white man ever had on the American frontier; and he was the only Indian buried with full United States military honors...read more

Product Description: A region of such wealth and beauty as Upper California could not long be hidden from the eyes of restless Americans pressing steadily westward. In 1841 a party of men, women, and children set out from Missouri led by John Bidwell, the prince of California pioneers...read more

A young girl with an uncanny ability to handle animals spends an incredible summer in the wilds under the care and protection of a female badger