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1) Death hunt
Author
Series
Wilderness series (David Thompson) volume 8
Language
English
Description
In 1829, a new life in the vast uncharted region beyond the Mississippi River was a cause for celebration, and fear.
Author
Series
Publisher
Av2 by Weigl
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Recounts the key events in the westward expansion of the United States and the settlement of the western frontier. It includes the immigration boom from Europe to the United States, the Louisiana Purchase, the Gold Rush, and the travels of Louis and Clark.
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Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. For this elegant thirtieth anniversary hardcover edition, Brown has contributed an incisive...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Strongheart is the final installment to the One Thousand White Women trilogy, a novel about fierce women who are full of heart and the power to survive. In 1873, a Cheyenne chief offers President Grant the opportunity to exchange one thousand horses for one thousand white women, in order to marry them with his warriors and create a lasting peace. These women, "recruited" by force in the penitentiaries and asylums of the country, gradually integrate...
8) Widow walk
Author
Series
Widow walk saga volume 1
Publisher
Solipsis Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1858 in the American Pacific Northwest where less than 3500 non-natives have begun settlements. Tensions betwen local indigenous tribes and pioneer settlers are growing. The U.S. territorial governor has called for a "war of extermination" against natives. Complicating it all, the local British and U.S. Armies begin preparing for war in a boundary dispute. Haida native Anah-nawitka, widely known by native foes and white settlers as "The Black...
Author
Series
One thousand White women trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
"9 March 1876 My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A revealing history of the West that pivots on Native peoples and the mixed families they made with European settlers. There is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using marriage to link communities and protect people within circles of kin. These family circles took in European newcomers who followed the fur trade into Indian Country from the Great Lakes to the Columbia...
12) The three-cornered war: the Union, the Confederacy, and native peoples in the fight for the West
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Language
English
Description
"A deeply-researched, dramatic, and character-driven narrative account of the violent struggle between Union and Confederate forces to claim the American West during the Civil War"--
"A dramatic, riveting, and deeply researched narrative account of the epic struggle for the West during the Civil War, revealing a little-known, vastly important episode in American history. In The Three-Cornered War Megan Kate Nelson reveals the fascinating history...
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