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The full story of the Montana cattle industry, from the earliest days of the fur traders down to the latest Miles City Roundup, written by a man who knows the northwestern rangeland and its history without a map.
One of the essential works on Montana Range Books by one whose family and personal work was intimately involved with the association. Robert Athearn notes it is a fine book dealing with the entire history of the West from the fur trade to...
1362) A Time in the Sun
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A major novel of the Indian wars in the far West, told from both points of view-the Apache's and the white man's. Anna Stillman was on her way to Tucson to marry Lieutenant Linus Degnan, the son of the commandant of the U.S. fort there, when she was captured by an Apache raiding party. It was 1870, and the Apaches were making a fierce last stand against the white men who were driving them from their land. The Degnans, father and son, soon realized...
1363) Cowboy
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"I always wnted to be a cow-puncher," says Shorty Caraway. "As a little kid back on the farm in east Texas I couldn't think of nothin' else." Shorty's father took some persuading, but in the end he staked his fourteen-year-old son to a white pony, a second-hand saddle, and "forty dollars to go with the two I had, an' he said that ought to run me until I got a job." What happened from that day until Shorty was taken on as a regular hand is told in...
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AN appropriate supplement to the memoirs of the "Women of the American Revolution," is the story of the wives and mothers who ventured into the western wilds, and bore their part in the struggles and labors of the early pioneers. Indeed, so obvious a consequence of the Revolution was the diffusion of the spirit of emigration, that the one work naturally calls for the other, the domestic history of the period being incomplete without it. To supply...
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As a dedicated Native American advocate since the age of 20, author Major Israel McCreight saw the sad plight of the Indians in the period following the Custer Fight and the Battle of Wounded Kane. This book, first published in 1947, is the account of the versions of U.S. history according to the old Sioux Chief, FLYING HAWK. Flying Hawk, who was a nephew of Sitting Bull and fought with Crazy Horse at Little Big Horn, dictated his narrative to McCreight,...
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Written in the 1850's by Henry Hastings Sibley, recorded first hand from Iron Face, a half-breed Sioux warrior and scout. Frazer, also was a half-breed born and raised in a Sioux village. Includes information on the Black Hawk War and the Minnesota Massacre. Vestal says, We are lucky, I think, to have this story in any form. Its chief service is a tool to help us understand a kind of life now gone forever. Stanley Vestal states that this volume presents...
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This is a fascinating, detailed firsthand eyewitness account of the Sioux Indian massacre at Lake Shetek in Minnesota that took place on August 20, 1862 by one of its survivors, Mrs. Lavinia Eastlick."In presenting this pamphlet to the public, I have given merely a plain, unvarnished statement of all the facts that came under my own observation, during the dreadful massacre of the settlers of Minnesota. Mine only was a single case among hundreds of...
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EIGHTY-ONE MEN under the command of Lt.-Col. W. J. Fetterman were ambushed by the Sioux in northern Wyoming on December 21, 1866. Not one survived to tell their story. Old army records prove that Fetterman, a Civil War hero, was acting in defiance of explicit orders, given by his commanding officer, Col. Henry Carrington. Yet Carrington, the senior officer of the regiment, was held responsible for the disaster. In all our history there have been only...
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This book and Orchard's book on porcupine quill decoration, form the foundation for almost every text on Indian arts and crafts that has been written since their publication and they remain superior to most.
Not only is this book an in-depth study of bead technology, but it considers in greater detail than any similar work the history, use and distribution of North (and South) American beadwork art from prehistoric to relatively modern times. The...
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Indian Stories from the Pueblos is a combination of tales of early Pueblo days and stories from 1929, when the book was first published. They were written by Frank Applegate, a New Mexican artist who lived among the Pueblos.
Contains beautiful illustrations from original Pueblo Indian paintings and a foreword by Witter Bynner.
1371) The Potawatomi Indians
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Fascinating and detailed history, originally publish in 1939, of the Native American Potawatomi tribe.
The Pot-a-wat-o-mi Indians were a tribe of the great Algonquin race, whose tribes stretched from the Atlantic to the Mississippi and beyond. The original home of the Potawatomi was with or near, the parent tribe in the great lake region of northern Michigan, on the western shores of Lake Huron. From here they were driven west by the powerful Iroquois....
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This book, which was first published in 1952, first began as a history of San Angelo and the adjacent region drained by the Conchos rivers. It grew, in writing, into a history of West Texas. It embodies author J. Evetts Haley's unequaled knowledge of the country from the Rio Grande to the Canadian, from San Antonio and Austin to the border of New Mexico. It could have been written only by a man familiar by personal acquaintance with the location of...
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"Red Sticks, White Sticks and the war in Alabama
The Creek Indian War, also known as the Red Stick War, took place between 1813-1814 and has been considered by many historians as part of the War of 1812. The Creek-or Muscogee-Indians of Alabama were effectively waging a civil war among themselves. One militant faction, the so called Red Sticks, proposed an aggressive return to the traditional life of their forebears and an end to treaties with and...
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Frank B. Mayer, a Baltimore artist, journeyed to Traverse de Sioux and Mendota on the Minnesota frontier in 1851 to record meetings between United States officials and Indian tribes who were ceding title to much of Southern Minnesota and portions of Iowa and Dakota. This volume contains the journal entries and sketches Mayer made on his travels. They provide a descriptive and visual record of Native American life as he saw it, particularly among the...
1376) Fracas in the Foothills
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Fracas in the Foothills, first published in 1940, is a rollicking, fast-paced action - western - mystery - adventure story set in the 1930s and moving from Paris to the American West (especially in the lower Yellowstone River valley Montana). The book features scholar-sleuth Homer Evans, the subject of several books by author Elliot Paul, and a host of additional, often wacky characters including his French cohorts, gangsters, Native Americans, ranchers,...
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A LUSTY, ROARING NOVEL ABOUT ONE MAN'S RELENTLESS BATTLE TO GET THE RAILROAD THROUGH
This is the story of FRANK PEACE, TROUBLE SHOOTER for the Union Pacific Railroad, handpicked as the only man in the West who could get the road across a thousand miles of rugged desert and mountains, through fighting Indian territory, past the organized bands of outlaws hired to kill him, and in the face of powerful interests determined to smash him. His business...
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When it was first published in 1935, On the Border with Mackenzie, or Winning West Texas from the Comanches quickly became known as the most complete account of the Indian Wars on the Texas frontier during the 1870s, and remains one of the most exhaustive histories ever written by an actual participant in the Texas Indian Wars. The author, Capt. Robert G. Carter, a Union Army veteran and West Point graduate, was appointed in 1870 to serve as second...
1379) A Cowman's Wife
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A Cowman's Wife is the true account of the author's experience as co-owner of Old Camp Rucker Ranch, a 22,000 acre spread north of Douglas, Arizona that she purchased with her husband in 1919. It chronicles a woman's view of cattle ranching in Northern Arizona, with all the hardships of the 1920's and 1930's, Native Americans, Mexicans, wolves, and horse thieves. She also tells of the pleasures of ranch life: spectacular sunsets, mountain scenery,...
1380) Yesterday's Trails
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True and authentic stories of Indians and Pioneers, including "Kid" Wade, "Doc" Middleton, Frank Hart, and many others, having their locale in western South Dakota and Nebraska, that picturesque area of "wide open spaces," pine-clad canyons and hills, and badlands that had such a colorful and romantic past by WILL H. SPINDLER who spent 30 years in the United States Indian Service as an Indian day school teacher on the vast Pine Ridge Indian reservation...
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