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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
He was the greatest Indian warrior of the nineteenth century. His victory over General Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was the worst defeat inflicted on the frontier Army. And the death of Crazy Horse in federal custody has remained a controversy for more than a century.
The Killing of Crazy Horse pieces together the many sources of fear and misunderstanding that resulted in an official killing hard to distinguish from a...
The Killing of Crazy Horse pieces together the many sources of fear and misunderstanding that resulted in an official killing hard to distinguish from a...
3) Ridgeline
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 1866, with the country barely recovered from the Civil War, new war breaks out on the western frontier--a clash of cultures between the Native tribes who have lived on the land for centuries and a young, ambitious nation. Colonel Henry Carrington arrives in Wyoming's Powder River Valley to lead the US Army in defending the opening of a new road for gold miners and settlers. Carrington intends to build a fort in the middle of critical hunting grounds,...
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (200 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
They fought hard to protect the lands where they had lived and thrived since time immemorial. Thrill to these larger-than-life, legendary men whose very names conjure brave and ferocious warriors whose unrelenting stamina and indomitable spirit continue to inspire and awe throughout the ages. Learn of their exploits, strategies and stunning victories at the Battle of Little Big Horn and other legendary conflicts of the old west.
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 481 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being "strange," fought in many famous battles, including the Little Bighorn, and held out tirelessly against the U.S. government's efforts to confine the Lakotas to reservations. Finally, in the spring of 1877 he surrendered, only to meet a violent death. More than a century later Crazy Horse continues to...
9) Crazy Horse
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Strips away the tall tales of legend to reveal the essence of Crazy Horse, profiling him as a brilliant and ascetic warrior-hero whose life exemplified Native American tragedy and the end of the untamed West.
12) Mystic visions
Author
Series
Mystic dreamers volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
316 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Plainsmen volume 16
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 329 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teased for his fair coloring, eleven-year-old Jimmy McClean travels with his maternal grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, to learn about his Lakota heritage while visiting places significant in the life of Crazy Horse, the nineteenth-century Lakota leader and warrior, in a tale that weaves the past with the present. Includes historical note and glossary.
16) Mystic warriors
Author
Series
Mystic dreamers volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
17) The Earth is all that lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the last stand of the Great Sioux Nation
Author
Language
English
Description
"A magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, revealing in groundbreaking new detail the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Big Horn and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars." --From book jacket.
18) Crazy Horse
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book examines the life of Lakota chief Crazy Horse in a simple, age-appropriate way that helps young readers develop word recognition and reading skills."--
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