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Frontier and pioneer life Indians of North America Indians of North America Government relations Indians of North America Social life and customs Indians of North America Wars Indians of North America Wars 1750-1815 Indians of North America Wars 1815-1875 Northwest, Old History 1775-1865 Shawnee Chief Tecumseh 1768-1813 United StatesO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 970.004 OREO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 970.004 O'REJones, Landon Y.
Contents: A dark and bloody ground -- 1. America's first west: 1722-1772 -- 2. General George Rogers Clark: 1772-1789 -- 3. Lieutenant Billy Clark: 1789-1795 -- 4. Soldier and citizen: 1795-1803 -- 5. "Ocian in view! O! the joy!":1803-1806 -- 6. This wild country: 1806-1809 -- 7. Life without Lewis: 1809-1813 -- 8. Territorial governor: 1813-1820 -- 9. "The red-headed chief": 1820-1829 -- 10. Resistance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 CLANelson, S. D.
Summary: "In 1876, Lakota chief Crazy Horse helped lead his people's resistance against the white man's invasion of the northern Great Plains. One of the leaders of the US military forces was Army Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. The men had long been enemies. Atthe height of the war, when tribalism had reached its peak, they crossed paths for the last time. In this action-packed double biography, S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 NELCobb, Daniel M.
Summary: Join the Smithsonian Institution to discover the rich history of native Americans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD NATTimeless Media
Summary: The world of Joseph Brant :Joseph Brant was bron in 1742 in what is now New York State's Mohwak Valley. His traditional Mohawk name was Thayendanegea, meaning "two sticks bound together in strength." This name would symbolic of Brant's twin ambitions : to be a power broker between Indian and English societies, and to satisfy his thirst for power, recognition and eminence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timeles Media Group 2002
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHIEckert, Allan W.
Summary: Recreates events which actually occurred in the opening up of the Northwest Territory in the period 1700 to 1900 based on written documents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jesse Stuart Foundation 2001
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Summary: "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 of the Civil War in the American West. Exploring the connections among the Civil War, the Indian wars, and western expansion,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 NELEckert, Allan W.
Summary: For over two hundred years no Indian force in America was so powerful and feared as the Iroquois League. Throughout two thirds of this continent, the cry of "The Iroquois are coming!" was enough to demoralize entire tribes. But these Iroquois occupied and controlled a vast wilderness empire which beckoned like a precious gem to foreign powers. France and England secured toeholds and suddenly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jesse Stuart Foundation 2001
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Contents: British America -- The Spanish Southwest -- Spanish Alta California -- The Pacific Northwest -- The trans-Appalachian frontier -- The southern nations -- The Black Hawk War -- The Great Plains -- The Far West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 HURGrey, Zane
Summary: Besieged by British rangers and Shawnee Indians, the settlers of Fort Henry must make a valiant stand in one of the last battles of the American Revolution, and their only hope is Betty Zane, who runs the gauntlet to retrieve the last keg of gunpowder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walter J. Black 1961
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Summary: A new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. Historian T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person--capable yet insecure, intelligent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CUSTER, GEORGE STIGilbert, Bil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 GILO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 970.004 ORESummary: The adventures of a hunter and his Native American cohort who fight for Fort Bennington during the French and Indian Wars in 1755 Hudson Valley, New York. Based on The Leatherstocking Tales, a series of novels by James Fenimore Cooper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment
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Summary: "Bestselling historian and Pulitzer-prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives and battles of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache warrior Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final fight for control of the American continent"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 BRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 BRAGoodrich, Th.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 GOOEckert, Allan W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jesse Stuart Foundation 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 ECKCollins, Olive
Summary: "In 1865, Goldie O'Neill was nine years of age when she trekked across the unclaimed American West with her family to form their own Irish catholic Colony. Their new community had dreams of self-governance and prosperity far removed from the anti-Irish sentiment and prejudice of the ruling classes. They soon learned about the extremes of the American West and the ongoing Indian war. A year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Collins 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLCalloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon)
Summary: "In 1791, General Arthur St. Clair led the United States Army in a campaign to destroy a complex of Indian villages at the Miami River in northwestern Ohio. Almost within reach of their objective, St. Clair's 1,400 men were attacked by about one thousandIndians. The U.S. force was decimated, suffering nearly one thousand casualties in killed and wounded, while Indian casualties numbered only a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield Co. 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.559 KERMort, T. A. (Terry A.)
Summary: "Evoking the spirit and danger of the early American West, this is the story of the Battle of Beecher Island, pitting an outnumbered United States Army patrol against six hundred Native warriors, where heroism on both sides of the conflict captures the vital themes at play on the American frontier"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021