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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized...
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House of Winslow volume 13
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Thomas Winslow fought bravely in the Civil War and was fortunate to survive the grim carnage. But the final defeat on the field of battle was far less painful than the personal defeat he encountered upon his return home. Betrayed by his wife and best friend, the only remnant of his marriage and love was a newborn daughter. Despite the difficulties, Tom remained adamant against giving Laura up. He eventually took a job with the Department of Indian...
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"With the end of the Civil War, the nation recommenced its expansion onto traditional Indian tribal lands, setting off a wide-ranging conflict that would last more than three decades. In an exploration of the wars and negotiations that destroyed tribal ways of life even as they made possible the emergence of the modern United States, Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates the encroachment...
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It was no work for a woman. That's what they told Mary Breydon when she came to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. But Mary had no choice. Her fine Virginia home burned to ashes in the Civil War and her husband was brutally shot down on the way to Colorado. She needed to make a new beginning for herself and her young daughter on the raw frontier. Isolated in an untamed land, their life at the station was achingly hard and they...
6) Soldiers
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Rourke
Pub. Date
1988
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English
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Relates some of the battles between the United States Army and North American Indians in the West during the nineteenth century.
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University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
c1960
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English
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Contains descriptions of the most outstanding battles in the Indian Wars of the West. Each battle is described by a student of that engagement. The writers have studied the historic records bearing on the fight, including official reports of field officers and testimony of surviving participants.
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In "Renegade Rifles," the hostile Apaches have attacked a wagon convoy at night, a time when traditionally the Apaches do not fight. In "Trouble Weather," the herd being driven from Montana to make up the beef ration for the local reservation has been unaccountably delayed, causing a possible uprising. Cattle thieves in the Old West were never easy to apprehend, but when, as in "Rain Valley," they are protected by a mountainous terrain, a lawman...
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Distributed by HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in the Black Hills--on Sioux land. In this film, the lives...
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North County trilogy volume 1
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Five Star Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"The Angels of North County is an adventure novel set in the late 1800s in the American West. The "Angels" are Civil War veterans exiled by the war to the horse country of North County. The Angels face off against a band of Native Americans led by a legendary warlord, the White Lion. The White Lion raids deep into the North County and his raid sets the Angels off on a journey of revenge that takes them down through the circles of the wasteland where...