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Contains descriptions of the most outstanding battles in the Indian Wars of the West. Each battle is described by a student of that engagement. The writers have studied the historic records bearing on the fight, including official reports of field officers and testimony of surviving participants.
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1967
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A powerful and gripping recreation of the Battle of Beecher Island-the notoriously bloody clash between US Army scouts and American Indian warriors Historian Dee Brown dramatically recounts the nine-day siege between Plains tribes and Major James William Forsyth's scouts. Based on historical sources, the novel is told from a variety of viewpoints, including that of Lieutenant Frederick Beecher, still wounded from the Civil War and charged with clearing...
14) Leaving Kansas
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1983
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Available again for the first time in nearly 30 years, Frank Roderus's classic novel LEAVING KANSAS is the compelling story of a young man who considers himself born in the wrong time and place. Living on a Kansas cattle ranch, Harrison Wilke believes that he was destined for better things, more civilized things than life on the frontier during the last fading days of the Old West. Harrison's efforts to make that dream a reality lead him into nothing...
16) The tangled web
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Family problems are more than enough for Deputy Marshal Rowry Saxton, but then the peaceful town of Hays, Kansas, adds to his problems when he is forced to shoot first a drunk and then a robber, who turns out to be his kid brother.
20) Starvation camp
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1984
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When Corporal Zachary McQuestion veered off his icy route in the Yukon, he was eagerly anticipating the warmth and comfort he'd always found at Molly Malone's. What he finds in her cabin, however, makes his blood boil: Intruders have murdered Molly for her meager provisions--little more than a few bags of flour.