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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades. Bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through the fraught...
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 4
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English
Description
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. In this action-packed double biography, Nelson draws fascinating parallels between Crazy Horse and Custer, whose lives were intertwined. These warriors were alike in many ways, yet they often collided in deadly rivalry. Witness reports...
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English
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Evan Jacobson's life in Norway was half a world away from the new life he found in Minnesota, 1859. As a stagecoach rider across the state from Fort Snelling to Fort Abercrombie, Evan encounters the effects of the Civil War to the south, the challenges the frontier settlers along the trail faced, and the all-too-close dangers of the Sioux Uprising of 1862.
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English
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"From the Spanish conquistadors of the 16th century to the English colonists of the 18th, the settling of America often came at the cost of Native American blood. But the 350-year conflict between European settlers and Indian natives reached its apex with the territorial expansions of the 19th century, when the notion of Manifest Destiny justified a series of battles and massacres that virtually wiped out the indigenous population. This five-part...
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Plainsmen volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Recently freed from service with the Tenth Cavalry, Seamus Donegan joins a party of buffalo hunters as they follow a shrinking herd into the ancient hunting grounds of the Kiowa and Comanche.
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Publisher
Wisdom Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Are you ready to experience Fort Ridgely's resident spirits, the battlefield ghosts of Native American warriors and US soldiers, the restless souls of massacre sites, and the thoughts of Chief Little Crow and Governor Henry Sibley from beyond the grave? Join ghost hunter and historian Adrian Lee, along with his elite team of paranormal investigators on a compelling tour of the most haunted historic places of the US-Dakota War.
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
Description
Offers the true story of the pioneers who crossed the Atlantic to establish a new world in Massachusetts, the challenges they faced upon their arrival, and their relationship with the local Native Americans.
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