Blue River

<P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA><EM>Blue River</EM> is an action packed story of seven kids in Kansas in the 1840's. Indians kill then loot their families' wagons and leave nothing for them to survive with.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA>The seven youngsters mesh as a family and together they fight untrained oxen kidnappers cattle thieves and their doubts as they try to escape persecution. Along the way they pick up Bill a big black man. David Little takes the family north into Nebraska and settles on the Blue River and they build a ranch in Indian country.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA>Laura the second oldest and Dave become involved and he flees to Santa Fe at the time of the Mexican War mapping what is now Arizona and New Mexico while fighting Apaches. He ends up in California after the war mining gold with the Army. His unit is killed off an paper betrayed by men in the Government and nearly annihilated. But seven men escape the treachery and struggle to get back home.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>