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The 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. 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. 2011The bitter waters of Medicine Creek: a tragic clash between white and native America
By Richard Kluger. 2011
Pulitzer Prize winner chronicles the relationship between indigenous tribes and white settlers in 1850s Washington Territory. Examines the role of…
the first governor, Isaac Stevens, and the treaties, revolts, and massacres that led to the trial and hanging of Nisqually leader Leschi in 1858. Discusses Leschi's 2004 exoneration. 2011Rez life: an Indian's journey through reservation life
By David Treuer. 2012
Ojibwa novelist recounts life on the Leech Lake Reservation in Minnesota. Interweaves his personal recollections with explanations of the history…
of Indian and U.S. government interactions over 150 years. Discusses sovereignty, housing, education, ecology, and casinos and addresses the issues of alcohol abuse and unemployment. Strong language and some violence. 2012Sitting 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. 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. 2010Historical survey of the aboriginal inhabitants of the United States, including Alaskan natives. Discusses common characteristics such as adaptation to…
the physical environment, love of homeland, and eloquence of language. Describes the tribes' interaction with Europeans and eventual removal to reservations. Contains 1983 revisions. 1970A 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). 1995Gens du fleuve, gens de l’île: Hochelaga en Laurentie iroquoienne au XVIe siècle
By Roland Viau. 2021
Une réponse à la grande énigme : pourquoi les populations autochtones d’Hochelaga ont-elles disparu entre l’arrivée de Cartier et celle…
de Champlain? Ce livre, qui prend souvent les allures d’une incomparable « enquête policière », constitue la première et remarquable synthèse de l’histoire de Montréal au XVIe siècle, à la fois savante et accessible. Un essai scientifique captivant pour qui s’intéresse aux communautés autochtones.The Sundance Kid: the life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh
By Donna B. Ernst. 2009
Descendants of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, who was known as the Sundance Kid, present new information on the infamous outlaw, from…
his early years in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, to his supposed death in San Vicente, Bolivia. They correct historical inaccuracies like Sundance's alleged participation in the 1897 Belle Fourche bank robbery. 2009Life in the saddle (The Western Frontier Library Series #21)
By Frank Collinson. 1997
Englishman Frank Collinson went to Texas in 1872 at age seventeen to work on a ranch. He lived the rest…
of his life in the southwestern United States, and at age seventy-nine he began writing articles for "Ranch Romances" about the Old West he knew and loved. In "Life in the Saddle," editor Mary Whatley Clarke has arranged his published articles, his letters, and transcriptions of his conversations. Violence and some strong languageUp the trail from Texas (Landmark books)
By J. Frank Dobie. 1955
In simple, yet colorful prose, J. Frank Dobie tells the story of life on the early cattle drives. He dispels…
the myth of cowboys as romantic figures, "dressed in silk and silver." Instead, he introduces the reader to a number of men who drove herds from Texas to Kansas, demonstrating the variety in their personalities and describing their hardships and achievementsLife of Tom Horn, government scout and interpreter
By Tom Horn. 1973
Tom Horn, an army scout and interpreter during the Apache wars, was hanged like a common criminal in 1903, many…
think mistakenly. His own account of his life begins when he was a runaway Missouri farm boy and provides a firsthand look at the military both great and small, at the wily Geronimo, the renegade Natchez, and old Chief Nana of the Apaches. Violence, for adult readersThe jump-off creek
By Molly Gloss. 1989
Oregon, 1895. Recent widow Lydia Sanderson travels from Pennsylvania to Oregon, where she homesteads on a sparse mountain. The harshness…
and difficulty of pioneer life is further complicated by squatters, loneliness, and isolationIn recounting the chase, trial, capture and execution of Henry Plummer's notorious band of robbers by vigilantes, the author wanted…
to show how justice was carried out in Montana Territory without the sanction of constitutional lawProspecting for gold: from Dogtown to Virginia City, 1852-1864
By Granville Stuart. 1977
As a miner, Indian fighter, trader and cattle baron, Granville Stuart lived every phase of frontier life. This book contains…
his journals (1852-1864) which cover his experiences in California, including an account of the Rogue River War, and his move to Montana to prospect for gold. In 1860, Stuart became a permanent resident of Deer Lodge, MT and played a major role in Montana becoming a U.S. Territory. Stuart also served as Montana's first public librarianU-bet: a greenhorn in old Montana
By John R Barrows. 1990
Ubet was the name the author's father gave to the stagestop he established at the end of the Judith Basin…
in 1879. Barrows reminisces about his initiation as a cowboy at the famous DHS ranch under Granville Stuart. His humorous yarns and accurate descriptions of cowboy life in central Montana in the 1880's show how rapidly the territory changed from Indian-buffalo country to a land of ranches and rich farmsHomestead boy: true tales of the old West
By Charles Beardsley. 1989
Through the clear eyes of a young boy, author Charles Beardsley recounts what it was like living in Ismay, Montana,…
in the years before the Great Depression. In short vignettes, the author recreates in vivid detail a way of life that is no more, a time when the "bus" to the one-room schoolhouse was an old plowhorse. For high school and adult readers