Title: Wild ran the rivers
Description: Ruth Harris and her younger brother, Jerry, who are of mixed Cherokee and white heritage, head down the Ohio with their parents to settle new country, perhaps in Arkansas. Pirates kill their parents, and the kids become captives on a Mississippi River island. Ruth is forced into marriage with a ne'er-do-well and bears his child; Jerry seems destined to become a pirate. Then the New Madrid earthquake of 1811 intervenes.
Subjects: Indian families, Fiction, Cherokee Indians, History, Historical, Western fiction, FICTION, Fiction, historical, Fiction, westerns, Indians of north america, fiction, United states, fiction, FICTION / Historical, Large type books
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century