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Eden Murdoch and Brad Randall novels volume 1
Language
English
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"There is no word in the Cheyenne language for forgiveness." On the day after Thanksgiving, 1868, George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry attack a sleeping Cheyenne village on the banks of the Washita. Ironically, it later becomes known that the village attacked was that of Black Kettle, the foremost peace chief of the Cheyenne Nation. Amidst the heartless and senseless slaughter of men, women, and children, the Seventh Cavalry discovers a...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A remarkable battle was fought at Beecher Island, Colorado, in 1868. Forty-nine untrained volunteers, two wounded officers, and a dying army doctor were nailed down on a sandbar in a shallow river by more than a thousand Cheyenne, Arapahoe and Sioux. For the fourth day the squaws and children shrieked with blood-lust. Roman Nose gathered his warriors for yet another attack. And again the desperate men on Beecher Island leveled their rifles."--
7) Campaigning with Custer and the Nineteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry on the Washita Campaign, 1868-69
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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
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Publisher
Starry Night Publishing.com
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"August 13, 1868: Sarah Catherine White, a 17-year-old girl, new to the Kansas frontier. Captured by Cheyenne warriors and thrust into an unknown future, completely foreign to her. Subjected to indignities beyond her imaginings, bitter cold temperatures, and near starvation, she persevered through all with fierce determination and self-preservation, all the while believing her entire family had been murdered." --
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Yale Western Americana volume 30
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
1977
Language
English
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Evoking the spirit and danger of the early American West, this is the story of the Battle of Beecher Island, pitting an outnumbered United States Army patrol against six hundred Native warriors, where heroism on both sides of the conflict captures the vital themes at play on the American frontier"--
