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Crazy Horse (Legends of the Wild West Ser.)
By Jon Sterngass. 2010
Portrait of the Lakota Sioux warrior (ca. 1842-1877), about whom little is known. Describes his resistance to efforts to force…
his people onto reservations, his role in famous battles at Rosebud Creek and the Little Bighorn, and the importance of horses to the Plains Indians. For grades 6-9. 2010Geronimo
By Jon Sterngass. 2010
Biography of the Chiricahua Apache war leader and shaman (1829-1909), who was a hero to his people but was vilified…
by white settlers. Discusses Geronimo's capture and long imprisonment by the U.S. government and his hatred of Mexicans for the massacre of his family. For grades 6-9. 2010The first North Americans: an archaeological journey (Ancient Peoples and Places Ser. #0)
By Brian M. Fagan, Brian Fagan. 2011
Anthropology professor and author of Cro-Magnon (DB 72886) surveys fifteen thousand years of Native American history and culture in North…
America. Discusses controversies over the first settlement and humans' role in animal extinction. Covers immigration routes and the diversity of hunter-gatherer societies. 2011The floor of heaven: a true tale of the last frontier and the Yukon gold rush
By Howard Blum. 2011
Chronicles the discovery of gold in 1890s Alaska and the Canadian Klondike through the lives of three of the participants:…
cowboy-turned-Pinkerton-detective Charlie Siringo; George Carmack, who lived with a local tribe and became rich from mining; and con man Jefferson "Soapy" Smith. 2011The killing of Crazy Horse
By Thomas Powers. 2010
Investigates the death of Sioux warrior Crazy Horse in 1877, after he surrendered to the U.S. Army. Describes the tensions…
between whites and Native Americans at the time and discusses critical events, including General George Custer's defeat and the discovery of gold in the Black Hills. Spur Award. 2010Beneath the sands of Egypt: adventures of an unconventional archaeologist
By Donald P. Ryan. 2010
Archaeologist who discovered the mummy of female pharaoh Hatshepsut in the Valley of the Kings in 1989 describes his work…
for National Geographic and the BBC, collaborations with explorer Thor Heyerdahl, and digs in Egypt and Hawaii. 2010Driven West: Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears to the Civil War
By A. J. Langguth. 2010
Professor posits that regional disagreements surrounding the removal of the Cherokees from the South--known as the Trail of Tears--by President…
Andrew Jackson fueled the states' rights debates that led to the Civil War. Discusses antebellum politics, including the 1830 Indian Removal Act, slavery, and the Mexican War. 2010Nothing daunted: the unexpected education of two society girls in the West
By Dorothy Wickenden. 2011
New Yorker editor documents her grandmother Dorothy Woodruff's 1916 adventure out West with her friend and fellow Smith College graduate…
Rosamond Underwood. Using letters the two women wrote after they became teachers in Elkhead, Colorado, and her own research, Wickenden describes everyday life among the poor Rocky Mountain homesteaders. 2011La grande aventure de l'égyptologie
By Robert Solé. 2019
Panorama des faits marquants de l'égyptologie depuis le début du XIXe siècle : la découverte des momies royales et de…
la tombe de Toutankhamon, le déchiffrement des hiéroglyphes ou encore le déplacement des obélisques en Europe.A history of the world in 100 objects
By Neil MacGregor. 2011
British Museum director profiles one hundred pieces from the institution's collection that trace human history, from a stone chopping tool…
discovered in Tanzania in 1931--and estimated to be one of the first manmade objects--to a solar-powered lamp and charger manufactured in China in 2010. Bestseller. 2010Sitting Bull
By Ronald A Reis. 2010
Biography of Sioux Indian chief Sitting Bull (1831-1890), who witnessed the settling of the West by white pioneers who displaced…
his people. Highlights Sitting Bull's 1876 victory over General George Custer's cavalry at the Little Big Horn. For grades 6-9. 2010Finders keepers: a tale of archaeological plunder and obsession
By Craig Childs. 2010
Relic hunter and naturalist exposes the dark side of archaeology. Discusses the reasons people loot, citing cases of antiquities traffickers,…
immoral museum curators, and wealthy collectors. Argues that taking artifacts separates them from their history. Explains his own low-impact method of exploration. 2010Bird Cloud: a memoir
By Annie Proulx. 2011
Pulitzer Prize-winning author reminisces about building her dream house on Bird Cloud, her 640-acre Wyoming prairie ranch. Describes the geography,…
fauna, flora, and original inhabitants of her adopted state, as well as the cost overruns of new construction. 2011Colossus: Hoover Dam and the making of the American century
By Michael Hiltzik, Michael A. Hiltzik, Michael A Hiltzik. 2010
Pulitzer Prize winner examines the 1931-1935 Depression-era construction of the Hoover Dam, which tamed the Colorado River and created Lake…
Mead. Describes the technical problems, labor practices, and personalities involved during the planning and building stages. Discusses the project's impact on the West. 2010A shovel of stars: the making of the American West, 1800 to the present
By Ted Morgan. 1996
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes the expansion of the United States from the creation of the Northwest Territory in 1787 to…
statehood for Alaska and Hawaii in 1959. Focuses on accounts of ordinary people of all races and their struggle to survive. Sequel to Wilderness at Dawn (DB 41714). 1995Journey to the Ice Age: discovering an ancient world
By Peter L. Storck. 2004
Archaeologist's autobiographical account of fieldwork in Ontario that revealed early human settlements near the Great Lakes. Senior curator of the…
Royal Ontario Museum discusses his thirty-year career, including his study of stone-knapping techniques and painstaking work uncovering and correlating artifacts, and describes the challenges Paleo-Indians faced 11,500 years ago. 2004Every bone tells a story: Hominin discoveries, deductions, and debates
By Jill Rubalcaba, Peter Robertshaw. 2010
Discusses the scientific knowledge derived from four human ancestors: Africa's Turkana Boy, Portugal's Lapedo Child, Washington state's Kennewick Man, and…
an Italian glacier's Iceman. Covers these fossil skeleton discoveries and examines both deductions based on advanced laboratory-technology findings and ongoing archaeological debates. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2010American archeology uncovers the Dutch colonies (American archaeology)
By Lois Miner Huey. 2010
Discusses archaeological finds at sites in New York and Delaware colonized by the Dutch between 1609 and 1664. Explains what…
scientists have learned from the garbage of ordinary settlers who lived in forts, towns, and farms. For grades 4-7. 2010If stones could speak: unlocking the secrets of Stonehenge
By Marc Aronson, National Geographic Kids. 2010
Traces the history of archaeological excavation at 4,500-year-old Stonehenge in England. Discusses a Madagascar scientist's belief that the circle of…
stones was a memorial to the dead, rather than a temple, and British archaeologists' subsequent work to substantiate that opinion. For grades 5-8. 2010The lost tombs of Thebes: life in paradise
By Zahi Hawass, Zahi A Hawass, Sandro Vannini. 2009
Egyptologist examines noblemen's tombs--including advisers to the pharaohs, an army commander, an architect, and palace officials--from the New Kingdom (approximately…
1550 to 1100 BCE). Discusses the excavation of these newly discovered tombs and details of daily existence and religious beliefs derived from their murals. 2009