Mari Sandoz
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Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose social non-conformity contributed to his reputation as being "strange," fought in many famous battles, and held out tirelessly against the US government's efforts to confine the Lakotas to reservations. This book offers an evocation of the spirit of Crazy Horse.
4) Old Jules
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Pub. Date
1985
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Biography of the author's father, recounting stories she heard of pioneer life while hiding behind the stove or wood box, and tales told to her by Old Jules himself, and providing a portrait of the upper Niobrara country in western Nebraska during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
11) Cattlemen
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Pub. Date
1958
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527 PAGES. $10.00. MEMORIAL: W. H. BERRYMAN. LC 58-8277. KD
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"In 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s. that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the great herds is the theme of The Buffalo Hunters. Mari Sandoz's vast canvas is charged with color and excitement - accounts of Indian ambushes, hairbreadth escapes, gambling and gunfights, military expeditions, and famous frontier characters such as Wild...
15) Miss Morissa
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Pub. Date
[1980], c1955
Description
Amidst the gold hunters, Indians, outlaws, ranchers, and farmers of 1870's Nebraska Morissa Kirk tries to find success and acceptance as a doctor.