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Custer, George A. (George Armstrong) 1839-1876 Indians of North America Indians of North America Government relations 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 States United States Territorial expansionO'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 CLAHurt, R. Douglas.
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 HURO'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 Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 O'RECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 O'RECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 970.004 ORERemini, Robert Vincent
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.56 REMEckert, Allan W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 ECKUtley, Robert Marshall
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.6 UTLO'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 OREEckert, 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BURNelson, 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 Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 NATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD NATSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Timeless 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 CHIGilbert, Bil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 GILNelson, Megan Kate
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 NELStiles, T. J.
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 STIEckert, 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