Great Plains Indians, Paperback

Reducere. The Indians of the Great Plains have dispatched two of their strongest scouts to learn what has become of the buffalo herds that sustain their peop...

Reducere. Custer's ill-fated attack on June 25, 1876, has gone down as the American military's most catastrophic defeat. This historic and personal work tell...

Reducere. Life of Billy Dixon is a compelling narrative of the "wild, free life" on the Great Plains frontier. Ride with Billy Dixon to a high point on the p...

Reducere. Between 1876 and 1877, the U.S. Army battled Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians in a series of vicious conflicts known today as the Great S...

Reducere. Founded in 1834 on the high plains of present-day eastern Wyoming. Fort Laramie evolved into an organizational hub and chief supply center for the ...

Reducere. People of the Wind River, the first book-length history of the Eastern Shoshones, tells the tribe's story through eight tumultuous decades--from 18...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Elijah Nicholas WilsonThis is the true story of a pioneer boy who crossed the Great Plains by ox-team with his parents to a...

Reducere. In the spring of 1874 a handful of men and one women set out for the Texas Panhandle to seek their fortunes in the great buffalo hunt. Moving south...

Reducere. George Bent, the son of William Bent, one of the founders of Bent's Fort on the Arkansas near present La Junta, Colorado, and Owl Woman, a Cheyenne...

Reducere. In his old age, Plenty-coups (1848-1932), the last hereditary chief of the Crow Indians, told the moving story of his life to Frank B. Linderman, t...

Contributor(s): Author: David E. StannardFor four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 149...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the massacre by survivors and soldiers *Summarizes the official investigations and their findings *Include...

Reducere. In Jubal Sackett, the second generation of Louis L'Amour's great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land. Jubal...

Clad in the black robe of his priestly order and armed only with a crucifix, for more than a quarter of a century Father De Smet relentlessly tramp...

Reducere. From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she was born and longs for the son she gave up f...

Reducere. American Indian nations of the Great Plains and cultural groups bordering this geographic area spoke so many different languages that verbal commun...

Reducere. DescriptionThe great Native American warriors and their resistance to the U.S. government in the war against the Plains Indians is a well-known cha...

Reducere. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest,...

Reducere. This fascinating and informative compendium of Native American lore was assembled by one of twentieth-century America's premier ethnographer/anthro...

Reducere. Description"You keep turning that shotgun toward me, Pickering, and your boys'll be hauling your fat carcass to the cemetery."Callum Logan faces a ...

Reducere. Along with all manner of European-American immigrants to North America's Great Plains in the nineteenth century - farmers, miners, gamblers, soldie...

In this book, Barton Barbour presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century's most important and longest-lived Uppe...

Reducere. How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and Americ...

Reducere. DescriptionMontana remains a wilderness paradise with a relatively small human population. History here witnessed gold fever draw thousands of pros...

Reducere. Zitkala-Sa (Red Bird) (1876-1938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was one of the best-known and most influential Native Americans of the tw...

Reducere. In 1806, U.S. Army General James Wilkinson assigned Lieutenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike to explore the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red rivers. Fr...

Reducere. Phoebe Judson was a young bride in 1853 when she and her husband crossed the plains from Ohio to the Puget Sound area of Washington Territory. She ...