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1) Sioux dawn: a novel of the Fetterman Massacre , Plainsmen volume 1

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Johnston, Terry C.

2) Red Cloud's revenge: showdown on the Northern Plains, 1867 , Plainsmen volume 2

Author

Johnston, Terry C.

3) The Stalkers: The Battle Of Beecher Island, 1868

Author

Johnston, Terry C

Series

Plainsmen volume 3

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No one captures the glory, adventure and drama of the courageous men and women who tamed the American West like award-winning author Terry Johnston. His Plainsmen series brims with colorful characters, fierce battles and compelling historical lore. Entrenched on a poorly sheltered island, many of Seamus Donegan's crack squad of Army scouts lie dead-and many more are dying. Led by Colonel George Forsyth, fifty seasoned plainsmen had combed the Colorado...

4) Black sun: the Battle of Summit Springs, 1869

Author

Johnston, Terry C

Series

Plainsmen volume 4

Publisher

St. Martin Paperbacks

Pub. Date

1991

Edition

St. Martin's Paperbacks ed.

Language

English

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Seamus Donegan and his fellow Army scouts, led by the legendary "Buffalo" Bill Cody, fight for their lives in the brutal Battle of Summit Springs in 1869.

5) Devil's backbone: the Modoc War, 1872-3

Author

Johnston, Terry C

Series

Plainsmen volume 5

Publisher

St. Martin's Paperbacks

Pub. Date

1991

Edition

St. Martin's Paperbacks ed.

Language

English

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Sergeant Seamus Donegan, tracking his uncle Ian O'Rourke, arrives at Tule Lake just in time to be caught up in the war between the Army and the Modoc Indians.

6) Shadow Riders: The Southern Plains Uprising, 1873

Author

Johnston, Terry C

Series

Plainsmen volume 6

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Chief White Bear and his Kiowa tribe would accept no more broken promises from the white man, so they left the Indian Territory reservations and crossed the Red River to the south. But, heir last desperate attempt to regain the land of their ancestors meant dead white settlers, embattled soldiers, and shaken supply routes. General Sheridan's seasoned forced were now on the move to stem the Indian tide. And, crack Army Sergeant Seamus Donegan would...

7) Dying Thunder: The Battle Of Adobe Walls & Palo Canyon, 1874

Author

Johnston, Terry C

Series

Plainsmen volume 7

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Dying Thunder Terry Johnston Newly freed from service with the 10th Cavalry, Seamus Donegan joins a party of buffalo hunters as they follow the shrinking herds into the ancient hunting grounds of the Kiowa and Comanche. The presence of the white men ignites a storm of Indian fury and the group is besieged. Donegan and some 27 men and one woman take shelter in a few sod shanties. They hold off over 700 braves for five days in the fight at Adobe Walls. From...

8) Blood Song: The Battle at Powder River and the Beginning of the Great Sioux War of 1876

Author

Johnston, Terry C

Series

Plainsmen volume 8

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Blood Song Terry C. Johnston Frontier Scout Seamus Donegan is heading for Montana Territory with his new bride when war erupts in the Black Hills of Dakota. Sitting bull and Crazy horse have defied the federal Government and refused to lead the wild tribes of the Northern Plains onto the reservation, and Washington decides to end the Indian problem once and for all. Donegan joins us with General George Cook who is leading the 2nd and 3rd Cavalry...

9) Reap the whirlwind: the Battle of the Rosebud, June 1876 , Plainsmen volume 9

Author

Johnston, Terry C.

10) Trumpet on the land: The Sibley scout, the skirmish at Warbonnet Creek, the battle of Slim Buttes and Crook's Horse-meat March--The aftermath of the Custer Massacre , Plainsmen volume 10

Author

Johnston, Terry C.

11) A cold day in hell: the Spring Creek encounters, the Cedar Creek fight, with Sitting Bull's Sioux, and the Dull Knife Battle, November 25, 1876 , Plainsmen volume 11

Author

Johnston, Terry C.

12) Wolf Mountain moon: the Fort Peck Expedition, the Fight at Ash Creek, and the Battle of the Butte--January 8, 1877

Author

Johnston, Terry C

Series

Plainsmen volume 12

Publisher

Bantam Books

Pub. Date

1997

Language

English

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Scout Seamus Donegan begins to wonder whether he will ever see his wife and newborn son again when his commander Colonel Nelson A. Miles makes a push into butte country and an engagement with the Lakota Indians.

13) Ashes of heaven: the Lame Deer fight--May 7, 198 and the end of the Great Sioux War , Plainsmen volume 13

Author

Johnston, Terry C.

14) Cries from the Earth: The Outbreak Of the Nez Perce War and the Battle of White Bird Canyon June 17, 1877

Author

Johnston, Terry C

Series

Plainsmen volume 14

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Cries from the Earth Terry C. Johnston By mid-1877, trouble in the Northwest is brewing like a foul broth. Ill will is growing between white settlers and the Non-Treaty bands of the Nez Perce. The American government is forcing the Indians from their homelands onto the reservation. Many go quietly, thinking more about their families than of the pride of their warriors. But for a few holdouts, there's no room for compromise. Their history, their...

15) Lay the mountains low: the flight of the Nez Perce from Idaho and the Battle of the Big Hole, August 9-10, 1877 , Plainsmen volume 15

Author

Johnston, Terry C.

16) Turn the Stars Upside Down: The Last Days and Tragic Death of Crazy Horse

Author

Johnston, Terry C

Series

Plainsmen volume 16

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Turn the Stars Upside Down is the compelling and little-known story of Crazy Horse's surrender in 1877 only months after his last fight with the U.S. Army at Battle Butte, his futile attempts to find peace for his warrior heart among the reservation Indians, and his eventual undoing at the hands of his own Oglala people. For all his life, this warrior has been a defender of the weak and helpless. But surrounded now on a tiny red island in a sea of...