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Comanche Indians History Comanche Indians Kings and rulers Biography Comanche Indians Wars Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) Overland journeys to the Pacific Parker, Quanah 1845?-1911 West (U.S.) History 1848-1860 West (U.S.) History 1860-1890 West (U.S.) History 1890-1945 West (U.S.) Race relationsTodras, Ellen H.
Summary: Investigates how early settlers traveled west towards the Pacific in wagon trains, and examines the hardships they faced and the towns they founded.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978.02 TODPagnamenta, Peter.
Summary: Recounts the lives and adventures of British aristocrats who explored and settled in the American West between 1830 and 1890, becoming landowners and making social adjustments to rub elbows with fur traders, Indians, and buffalo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 PAGMcLynn, Frank.
Summary: In all the sagas of human migration, few can top the drama of the journey by midwestern farmers to Oregon and California in the years 1840-49. Seeking the promised land, these travelers trekked two thousand miles by covered wagon from Missouri to their destinations on the Pacific coast. Although they used mountain men as guides, they went almost literally into the unknown, braving dangers from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 MCLGwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.)
Summary: Describes the actions of both whites and Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins with the kidnapping of a white girl, who grew up to marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who became a great warrior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.004 GWYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Native GwynneGwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.)
Summary: A historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 978.004 GWYPatent, Dorothy Hinshaw.
Summary: Shows the hardships the pioneers faced in their long overland journeys to the West Coast by wagon train.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker and Co. 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978.02 PATGardner, Mark Lee
Summary: "A magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, revealing in groundbreaking new detail the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Big Horn and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars." --From book jacket
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: History US GardnerDary, David.
Summary: A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West. Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David Dary gives us the whole sweeping story of those who came to explore, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 DARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US DaryUtley, Robert Marshall
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1988