Wind on the river
By: by Laurie Lawlor.
Series: Jamestown's American portraits
Publisher: Jamestown Publishers; McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lincolnwood, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Wars -- Fiction; Prejudices -- Fiction; War -- Fiction; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Juvenile fiction; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: In 1863, fifteen-year-old Private Allen of South Carolina, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, decides to switch his allegiance to the Union and is sent to fight "savages" in Dakota Territory, where he confronts his prejudices and learns what heroism really means.