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47) Buffalo soldiers
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1993
Description
Recounts the deeds of the 9th and 10th Cavalry, comprised of African American soldiers who kept peace between Indians and settlers on the western frontier, fought in the Spanish-American War, and pursued the outlaw Pancho Villa through Mexico.
49) Widow walk pb
Author
Series
Widow walk saga volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"It is 1858 in the American Pacific Northwest where less than 3500 non-natives have begun settlements. Tensions betwen local indigenous tribes and pioneer settlers are growing. The U.S. territorial governor has called for a "war of extermination" against natives. Complicating it all, the local British and U.S. Armies begin preparing for war in a boundary dispute. Haida native Anah-nawitka, widely known by native foes and white settlers as "The Black...
Author
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Recounts the history of the 9th and 10th Cavalry regiments, comprised of African American soldiers recruited to open the West to settlers and whose deeds included escorting wagon trains, carrying mail, and fighting battles against Native Americans.
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Description
They were U.S. army officers. Just a few years earlier, some had been slaves. Several thousand African Americans served as soldiers in the Indian Wars and in the Cuban campaign of the Spanish-American War in the latter part of the nineteenth century. They were known as buffalo soldiers, believed to have been named by Indians who had seen a similarity between the coarse hair and dark skin of the soldiers and the coats of the buffalo. Twenty-three of...
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
In the fall of 1846 the venerable Navajo warrior Narbona, greatest of his peoples chieftains, looked down upon the small town of Santa Fe, the stronghold of the Mexican settlers he had been fighting his whole long life. He had come to see if the rumors were true-if an army of blue-suited soldiers had swept in from the East and utterly defeated his ancestral enemies. As Narbona gazed down on the battlements and cannons of a mighty fort the invaders...
56) America's female Buffalo soldier: a new look at the life of Cathy Williams in history and memory
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Tucker has masterfully inked a compelling tribute to a woman" named Cathy Williams. Prince George's Sentinel, Maryland The unforgettable true story of Cathy Williams, the first and only female Buffalo Soldier in history, is timeless and important on many levels. Cathy's personal odyssey has provided us with a host of valid life lessons about what it takes to succeed in life then and today - perseverance, ingenuity, willpower, and determination. Most...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Between 1803 and 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark co-captained the most famous expedition in American history. But, while Lewis ended his life just three years later, Clark, as the highest-ranking Federal official in the West, spent three decades overseeing its consequences: Indian removal and the destruction of Native America. In a rare combination of storytelling and scholarship, best-selling author Landon Y. Jones presents for the first...
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
In this new installment in his acclaimed series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the Nez Perce War, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian...