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Generals Generals United States Biography Indians of North America Indians of North America Government relations Indians of North America Wars Indians of North America Wars 1866-1895 Indians of North America Wars 1866-1895 Fiction Shawnee Chief Tecumseh 1768-1813 United States United States. Army BiographyNelson, 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 NELBrands, H. W.
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 BRAMort, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.81 MORSummary: Using journals, oral histories, and drawings, this program tells the story of the famous battle, including the perspectives of the Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne, and Crow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LASUtley, Robert Marshall
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.82 UTLGoodrich, 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 GOOMort, T. A. (Terry A.)
Summary: In the summer of 1874, Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer led an expedition of some 1000 troops and more than one hundred wagons into the Black Hills of South Dakota. This fascinating work of narrative history tells the little-known story of this exploratory mission and reveals how it set the stage for the climactic Battle of the Little Bighorn two years later. What is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 MORBaker, Brynn.
Summary: "Discusses the heroic actions and experiences of the Buffalo Soldiers and the impact they made during times of war or conflict"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355 BAKVanderhaeghe, Guy
Summary: The final installment in his nationally best-selling trilogy, Guy Vanderhaeghe's A Good Man returns to the nineteenth-century Canadian and American West to explore the waning days of one of the world's last great frontiers. Wesley Case, a former soldier and the son of a Canadian lumber baron, sets out into the untamed borderlands between Canada and the United States to escape a dark secret from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANSheridan, Philip Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHERIDAN, PHILIP HENRY SHECozzens, Peter
Summary: A sweeping, definitive history of the battles and negotiations that destroyed the Indian way of life even as they paved the way for the emergence of the United States we know today. Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 COZCozzens, Peter
Summary: A magisterial, essential history of the struggle between whites and Native Americans over the fate of the West.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 978 COZJohnston, Terry C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 1992
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHSnyder, Scott.
Summary: "Southern New Mexico Territory, 1871. Before he became the Wild West's most wanted man, before he became a whole new breed of American vampire, Skinner Sweet was a soldier in the U.S. Army. But he's still as dangerous and deadly as the monster he became. Skinner's willing to win the war with the local tribes by any means necessary. But so are they. And the long-buried horror they're preparing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AMECummings, Jack
Summary: Indian fighter Joe Seaver and others become locked in a struggle to the death with a nomadic tribe of Sheepeater Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker and Co. 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUMSummary: A former Union soldier brokers peace with the Apaches in 1870 Arizona, but still faces opposition from the U.S. military and other tribes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BROJohnston, Terry C.
Summary: Tired of the white man's false promises and broken treaties, Chief White Bear and his Kiowa tribe break from their reservation and cross the Red River in an attempt to reclaim their ancestors' land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martins Paperbacks 1991
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHSummary: 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 2010Summary: 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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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BURCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BUREckert, 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 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 NATStiles, 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