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Danny Blackgoat: Rugged Road to Freedom

by Tim Tingle

Ages: 12+

Published: 2014

Publisher: 7th Generation/Orca

ISBN: 978-1-939053-05-3

Keywords: Navajos, Civil War

Seventeen-year-old Danny is taken prisoner during the Civil War. He escapes, but faces many dangerous obstacles trying to rescue his family from Fort Sumner.