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1) The Earth is all that lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the last stand of the Great Sioux Nation
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"A magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, revealing in groundbreaking new detail the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Big Horn and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars." --From book jacket.
Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull: Their names are iconic, their significance in American history undeniable. These two Lakota chiefs, one a fabled...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. “The Oregon Trail” offers a critical view of the Conestoga wagon generation. The result of the notes Parkman took along the newly-developed roads to the West, the book put an end to the sentimentalized portrait of pioneer travel. Altering the course of American history and shaping early views of Native Americans, it denounces, in its descriptions of the Oglala...