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"The came from a settled land--to a place of beauty, blood and war... Jim and Joe Downs came from Virgina--one led by the call of God, the other by a thirst for adventure. In the Ohio River Valley, the handsome young preacher and his rogue and charming brother entered a storm of Indian wars, white men's treachery, and into the wilderness of a legendary fighter whose enemies knew him as the 'Deathwind...'" -- Page [4] cover.
Known to the Ohio Valley...
2) Betty Zane
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English
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Lovely and headstrong Betty Zane has made a place for herself in the newly-settled territory of the Ohio Valley. When the delicate balance of her life on the frontier is interrupted by the arrival of Alfred Clarke-a dashing young frontiersman for whom honour comes before his own romantic interests-and by a sudden, violent attack on their settlement, Betty must fight to protect everyone she loves.
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1160L
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English
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Brown's meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. This edition includes illustrations, essays, and excerpts from firsthand accounts and memoirs, that add depth and reflection to this momentous work.
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
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[2021]
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140 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm
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English
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Lakota chief Crazy Horse and Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer had long been enemies when they finally crossed paths for the last time in 1876, as the people of the Great Plains resisted the invasion of their homes. Witness reports and reflections by their peers accompany side-by-side storytelling, revealing different perspectives on the historical events during their intertwined lives.
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Pub. Date
2003
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1st ed.
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xvi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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The year 1865 was bloody on the Plains as various Indian tribes, including the Southern Cheyenne and the Southern Sioux, joined with their northern relatives to wage war on the white man. They sought revenge for the 1864 massacre at Sand Creek, when John Chivington and his Colorado volunteers nearly wiped out a village of Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho. The violence in eastern Colorado spread westward to Fort Laramie and Fort Caspar in southeastern...
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2004
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1st ed.
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394 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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Between 1803 and 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark co-captained the most famous expedition in American history. But while Lewis ended his life just three years later, Clark, as the highest-ranking Federal official in the West, spent three decades overseeing its consequences: Indian removal and the destruction of Native America. In a rare combination of storytelling and scholarship, best-selling author Landon Y. Jones presents for the first...
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1st ed.
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English
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In August of 1862, hundreds of Dakota warriors opened without warning a murderous rampage against settlers and soldiers in southern Minnesota. The vortex of the Dakota Uprising along the Minnesota River encompassed thousands of people in what was perhaps the greatest massacre of whites by Indians in American history. ... Dakota Dawn focuses in great detail on the first week of the killing spree, a great paroxysm of destruction when the Dakota succeeded,...
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1989
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xi unnumbered pages, 369 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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Many frontier histories depict Native Americans as passive recipients of an inevitable fate, victimized through their naiveté and ignorance of white society. God Gave Us this Country does not whitewash the political corruption and brutalities of the period, but it shows how the Shawnee outwitted their white foes, and became adept at beating them at their own game.
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University of Arizona Press
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©1986-©1997
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1 online resource (2 volumes in 3) : illustrations, maps
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English
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"This documentary history contains original and annotated translations of documents dealing with presidios. Contains materials for the history of discovery, conquest, and settlement of the central corridor of eastern Nueva Vizcaya, New Mexico, and Texas between 1700-65"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
19) Tecumseh: a life
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1998
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1st ed.
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xi, 492 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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