Washoe County Library System

An overview of the past and present lives of the Pawnee Nation including their history, food and clothing, homes and family life, religion, music, and government.

After caring for an old abandoned horse, a poor young Pawnee boy is rewarded by the horse's mystic powers.

The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both. But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts...