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“The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated.” So says Jack Crabb, the 111-year-old narrator of Thomas Berger’s 1964 masterpiece of American fiction, Little Big Man. Berger claimed the Western as serious literature with this savage and epic account of one man’s extraordinary double life.
After surviving the massacre of his pioneer family, ten-year-old Jack is...
After surviving the massacre of his pioneer family, ten-year-old Jack is...
2) The Cheyenne
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Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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An introduction to the Cheyenne people, explaining who they are, reviewing the history of the Cheyenne, looking at how the Cheyenne lived, their beliefs, and rituals, and discussing the Council of Forty-Four.
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Rusty Sabin was born to white parents but brought up by the Cheyenne Indians, who named the redheaded boy Red Hawk. His ability to heal the sick and to make strange magic is widely honored throughout the tribe. But in his twenties, Red Hawk sets out to take his place among white people. When Rusty and his stallion White Horse are nearly at the frontier post of Fort Marston, the river boat he's riding is grounded, and a man called Bill Tenney comes...
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Five Star, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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[2022]
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English
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"Montana's Tongue River Valley is a cauldron of animosity between the Northern Cheyenne who are trying to endure, and land-hungry settlers and others who want them wiped out once and for all. Two men become the focal point for keeping peace--John Dooley and his Cheyenne co-worker Fox Running. The friends must solve two murders that could ignite the powder keg of emotions. They face the gravest test of their friendship yet as Dooley, new to the West,...
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First mountain man volume 5
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English
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It's the final showdown between Preacher his longtime nemesis in a rip-roaring adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of Forty Guns West.
Mountain men are skilled at survival. Preacher, the greatest of all those warriors of the forest, will kill anything—beast or man—that threatens his existence. Ten years ago, he taught this violent lesson to gun-crazed Ezra Pease when he ran the...
Mountain men are skilled at survival. Preacher, the greatest of all those warriors of the forest, will kill anything—beast or man—that threatens his existence. Ten years ago, he taught this violent lesson to gun-crazed Ezra Pease when he ran the...
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Lewis Gates, a bounty hunter haunted by the past, was hired to track down three escaped convicts in the Oxbow region of the Rockies. Their trail leads him to a secluded spot and signs of a struggle, but no bodies only a strange arrow shaft remains. Gates takes the arrow to an expert in Native American culture, Lillian Sloan, and together they set off in search of an impossible mystery a tribe they believe cannot exist, massacred over 100 years ago....
9) The Cheyenne
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Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Describes the Cheyenne way of life, including their traditions, customs, buffalo hunts, leaders, and land.
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Hawkshadow Pub. Co
Pub. Date
©2001
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English
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Orphaned by the untimely deaths of her parents, Emma Jorden has to abandon her Kansas home. Lost on the featureless prairie and near death, she is rescued by Shea Hawkshadow, a half-breed Cheyenne warrior. Her impulsive marriage to Shea propels them both into a precarious and treacherous existence. Fleeing brutal persecution for their interracial marriage, they embark on a risky journey across the frontier.-Cover.
11) The Cheyenne
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Lucent Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Discusses the Cheyenne Native Americans including their nomadic life, social and religious customs, peace chiefs and war leaders, wars, early days on the reservation, and current situation.
12) Hostiles
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Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.
13) Hell and back
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"What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty, young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies--along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust--something...
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2017.
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"9 March 1876 My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of...
18) A forgotten evil
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"In the American West, as the nation heals from the Civil War that nearly destroyed it, new battle lines are being drawn. Caleb Justin, orphaned and grieving, and his comrade Joshua Hart, a tough, worldly runaway, leave their home along the Ohio River bound for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, intent to join Sheridan's troops in their pursuit of Indian lands. But a badly healed foot injury ends Caleb's dream of joining up. While Joshua is assigned to George...
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[Don Congdon Associates, Inc.]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"Claire Matthews is carrying the child of Cheyenne half-breed, Two Wolves, who promised in marriage to live his life in the white world under the name his white mother gave him - Peter James Matthews. Peter is educated and can conduct himself as white; however, Claire understands that deep in his heart, her husband is very Indian. In the prequel to this story (CAPTURE MY HEART), it was the "Indian" Two Wolves, a scout for the U. S. Army, who rescued...
20) Silent abduction
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Journeys of the stranger volume 2
Publisher
Multnomah
Pub. Date
©1994
Language
English
Description
The captivating journeys of the Stranger continue as the man in black and the woman he loves holp residents of a small town targeted by cattle rustlers.
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