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Plainsmen volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks ed.
Language
English
Description
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.
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Language
English
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Description
Here are the true stories of the West's most terrible massacres-Sacramento River, Mountain Meadows, Sand Creek, Marias River, Camp Grant, and Wounded Knee, among others. These massacres involved Americans killing Indians, but also Indians killing Americans and, in the case of the currently hugely controversial Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857, Mormons slaughtering a party of American settlers, including women and children. McMurtry's evocative descriptions...
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Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The lives, legends, and epic events that made the American West a world-renowned symbol of true grit are showcased in this gorgeous volume featuring the Gold Rush, the Indian Wars, cowboys, outlaws, and more. From Lewis and Clark's epic 1803 expedition to the showmanship of Buffalo Bill Cody, the story of the American West is epic in scope and full of amazing tales of tragedy and triumph. Lavishly illustrated with vivid photographs and intricate...
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English
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The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. Ned Blackhawk...
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"Presents a narrative history of the First Dragoon Regiment, from its inception in 1833 to the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848"--
"Having banished eastern Native peoples to lands west of the Mississippi, President Andrew Jackson's government by 1833 needed a new type of soldier to keep displaced Indians from returning home. And so the 1st Dragoons came into being. Will and John Gorenfeld tell their story--an epic of exploration, conquest,...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Spanning 2,000 miles and traversing six states from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean, the Oregon Trail is the route that made America. In the fifteen years before the Civil War, when 400,000 pioneers used it to emigrate West, the trail united the coasts, doubled the size of the country, and laid the groundwork for the railroads. The trail years also solidified the American character: our plucky determination in the face of adversity, our impetuous cycle...
11) Wild West
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Series
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Rev. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated introduction to the history of the American West, from the explorations of Lewis and Clark, to the massacre at Wounded Knee, providing information on trappers and mountain men, native Americans, the Pony Express, railroads, and gold miners. Includes time line.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Blu-ray ed.
Language
English
Description
In 1906, Teddy Roosevelt created the nation's first National Monument destination. The purpose was to preserve all of America's significant pieces of history. Now viewers can take a journey through the ecology, geology, and beauty of the Great Plains, the geologic West, and the historic South in an adventure never to be forgotten.
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A collection of contributed essays examining Mormon history within the "Greater Reconstruction" of the United States after the Civil War and in comparison to other federal reconstruction efforts in the South and among the Native tribes"--
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, former P.O.W. Jack Calgrove moves Heaven and Earth to be reunited with his children following the Civil War. After returning home, Jack finds out his wife has died and his children, presumed orphans, are heading deep into the West aboard a train bound for hostile territories. Calgrove and another former soldier are joined by a troop of Native American sharpshooters and a freed slave, as they race to intercept the orphan train...
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
[First edition].
Language
English
Description
This is Who We Were: Colonial America, 1492-1775 is the 13th volume in the This is Who We Were series. It includes 25 profiles -- spanning more than 250 years -- of men, women, and children living and working in the Colonial Era in the country that would become the United States of America. Like the other works in this series, this volume observes the lives of working Americans, in this case, pilgrims, colonists, settlers, slaves and Native Americans...
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English
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*Includes pictures
*Includes Beckwourth's quotes about his life
*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading
"Jim Beckwourth, who knew, said that though the Indian could never become a white man, the white man lapsed easily into an Indian." - Bernard DeVoto, The Year of Decision: 1846
Explorers, soldiers, and settlers of African-American heritage comprise an unfamiliar story to most students of American history. However, in the...
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