Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee Is Dee Brown’s Eloquent, Fully Documented Account Of The Systematic Destruction Of The American Indian During The Second Half Of The Nineteenth Century. Using Council Records, Autobiographies, And Firsthand Descriptions, Brown Allows The Great Chiefs And Warriors Of The Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, And Other Tribes To Tell Us …
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
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. A New Kind Of War — A Lethal Paradise — Worlds …
Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (Galaxy Books)
Donald Worster. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
The dust storms that terrorized America’s High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through …
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
Documents The 1810 To 1813 Expedition, Financed By Millionaire John Jacob Astor And Encouraged By Thomas Jefferson, To Establish Fort Astoria, A Trading Post On The Columbia River In The Pacific Northwest. The Launch — The Journey — Pacific Empire And War — Fate Of The Astorians. Peter Stark. Includes Bibliographical References (pages [316]-351) And …
