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"The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades. Bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through the fraught...
3) Lost Birds
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Anne Hillerman is a star."-J. A. Jance, New York Times bestselling author
From New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman, a thrilling and moving chapter in the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series involving several emotionally complex cases that will test the detectives in different ways.
Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience...
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Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century
Duff MacCallister is heir to a fierce family of fighting Scotsmen. In a new land, in the extraordinary new saga by bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone, Duff gives new meaning to the words without mercy.
Cut Off The Head—The Beast Will Die.
The Indians around Fort Laramie, Wyoming are peaceful. Or so it has seemed—until killers ambush a detail...
Duff MacCallister is heir to a fierce family of fighting Scotsmen. In a new land, in the extraordinary new saga by bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone, Duff gives new meaning to the words without mercy.
Cut Off The Head—The Beast Will Die.
The Indians around Fort Laramie, Wyoming are peaceful. Or so it has seemed—until killers ambush a detail...
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HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
1994, c1993
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine.
Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts...
14) The haunted mesa
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Bantam
Pub. Date
[c1987]
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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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The Navajo called them the Anasazi, the "ancient enemy," and their abandoned cities haunt the canyons and plateaus of the Southwest. For centuries the sudden disappearance of these people baffled historians. Summoned to a dark desert plateau by a desperate letter from an old friend, renowned investigator Mike Raglan is drawn into a world of mystery, violence, and explosive revelations. Crossing a border beyond the laws of man and nature, he will learn...
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Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Fictionalized biography of Colonel Charles Jesse Jones ("Buffalo Jones"), 1844-1919, a frontiersman and wild game hunter. Jones, the last of the plainsmen, and several associates venture into the region of Buckskin Mountain, along the northern rim of the Grand Canyon. In a continuing quest to establish dominion over wild animals, Jones leads his men on a journey to capture untamed cougars and bring them back alive. After several run-ins with Navajo,...
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Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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While back on the trail, Breck Wallace, exiled from the Smoky Mountains for gunning down a man in self-defense, must evade a vicious gang of trappers who are after his goods and who force him to ride deeper into the mountains than he has ever gone.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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"Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer--the Annie Liebowitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Curtis's iconic photographs,...
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Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"In 1879, Faith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor and use her gift to help the native populations. When she meets Andrew Gratton, an injured riverboat captain, a friendship grows between them-but will secrets and rising tensions prevent them from finding true happiness?"-- Provided by publisher.
Faith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor at Willamette University's medical college so she can use her gift for healing to help...
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c1990
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English
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No one captures the glory, adventure and drama of the courageous men and women who tamed the American West like award-winning author Terry Johnston. His Plainsmen series brims with colorful characters, fierce battles and compelling historical lore.
Entrenched on a poorly sheltered island, many of Seamus Donegan's crack squad of Army scouts lie dead-and many more are dying. Led by Colonel George Forsyth, fifty seasoned plainsmen had combed the Colorado...
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