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(0)Dee Brown
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Renowned storyteller Dee Brown, author of the bestselling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, recreates the struggles of Native Americans, settlers, and ranchers in this stunning volume that illuminates the history of the old West that's filled with maps and vintage photographs.
Beginning with the demise of the Native Americans of the Plains, Brown depicts the onrush of the burgeoning cattle trade and the waves of immigrants who ultimately...
Beginning with the demise of the Native Americans of the Plains, Brown depicts the onrush of the burgeoning cattle trade and the waves of immigrants who ultimately...
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In his first work of nonfiction in more than a decade, Dee Brown draws on more than fifty years of research, and offers a vivid, loving portrait of the considerable joys, wonders, and hardships of the frontier West. Brown puts famous tall tales in their true perspective, and reveals how often the unknown truths are far more fantastic than the celebrated fictions. Turning to frontier newspapers, journals, and diaries, and the observations of such sojourners...
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Pub. Date
1998
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Ben Butterfield, ex-circus performer, is living out his days in a small backwater town. He spends much of his time dwelling on the past, pondering his glory days with the circus, and his first grand adventure-an odyssey across Missouri and Illinois to Bright Star, Indiana, during the Civil War. It was a journey that laid the groundwork for the man he would become, and on which he got to know the two people who meant the world to him, and still do.
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The awe-inspiring true story of a group of Confederate soldiers who served in the Union Army Historian Dee Brown uncovers an exciting episode in American history: During the Civil War, a group of Confederate soldiers opted to assist the Union Army rather than endure the grim conditions of POW camps. Regiments containing former Confederates were not trusted to go into battle against their former comrades, and instead were sent to the West as "outpost...
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Pub. Date
2012
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“One of the best studies that has been made of any sector of the Indian wars” from the #1 bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Chicago Tribune).
This dark, unflinching, and fascinating book is Dee Brown’s riveting account of events leading up to the Battle of the Hundred Slain—the devastating 1866 conflict that pitted Lakota, Arapaho, and Northern Cheyenne warriors, including...
This dark, unflinching, and fascinating book is Dee Brown’s riveting account of events leading up to the Battle of the Hundred Slain—the devastating 1866 conflict that pitted Lakota, Arapaho, and Northern Cheyenne warriors, including...
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Fort Phil Kearny, a small outpost in the foothills of the Little Big Horns, was the scene of the Fetterman Massacre on December 21, 1866. Part of Red Cloud's War, it pitted Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho forces against the United States Army. The second battle in American history from which came no survivors, it became a cause célèbre and was investigated by Congress. This book, based on Army records and first-hand reports, attempts to give a comprehensive...
11) The Westerners
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Pub. Date
Ã1974
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In The Westerners Dee Brown follows the frontiersmen into the heroic world of quests and wars. His earliest guides are Spaniard, the first Europeans to explore the American Southwest in the sixteenth century. But from here, instead of writing another chronological history of the opening of America's West, Mr. Brown tells the story through the experiences of a few influential or representative Westerners- white men and white women and Indians.
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Pub. Date
?1977
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Includes information on Arapaho Indians, the Central Pacific Railroad of California, Cheyenne Indians, the Northern Pacific Railroad, Pawnee Indians, Plains Indians, immigrants, settlers, Sioux Indians, Robert Louis Stevenson, the Union Pacific Railraod, Abraham Lincoln, etc.
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[1984], c1962
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The Fetterman Massacre occurred on December 21, 1866, at Fort Phil Kearny, a small outpost in the foothills of the Big Horns. The second battle in American history from which came no survivors, it became a cause célèbre and was the subject of a congressional investigation.
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c2007
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By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in the Black Hills--on Sioux land. In this film, the lives...
