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Vanderhaeghe, 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 VAN

Johnston, 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 JOH

Cummings, 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 CUM

Johnston, 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 JOH

Summary: 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 WOR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

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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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BUR

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BUR

Eckert, 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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Nelson, 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 NEL

Nelson, 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 NEL

Cobb, 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 NAT

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD NAT

Brands, 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

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 BRA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 BRA

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