Mort, T. A. (Terry A.)
Summary: In the summer of 1874, Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer led an expedition of some 1000 troops and more than one hundred wagons into the Black Hills of South Dakota. This fascinating work of narrative history tells the little-known story of this exploratory mission and reveals how it set the stage for the climactic Battle of the Little Bighorn two years later. What is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 MORCox, Kurt Hamilton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenhill Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.82 COXPhilbrick, Nathaniel.
Summary: The bestselling author of "Mayflower" sheds new light on one of the iconic stories of the American West, reminding readers that the Battle of the Little Bighorn was also, even in victory, the last stand for the Sioux and Cheyenne Indian nations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 PHISklenar, Larry
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.82 SKLGabaldon, Diana.
Summary: A guide to the Outlander series, time-travel romances featuring Claire Beauchamp Randall, a Red Cross nurse. Included are synopses of novels, biographies, family trees and pronunciation help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The popular bread-spread Marmite is headed for store shelves in a new squeezable bottle-and now the public must be alerted and mobilized. This program examines the formation of the advertising campaign that will launch the product. Going inside creative meetings and consumer testing sessions, the program follows the evolution of TV ad messages from storyboarded pitches to the final chosen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Melillo, Wendy.
Summary: Documents how public service advertising campaigns became a society-changing part of American culture, tracing the Ad Council's origins as a World War II propaganda engine before progressing to issue-related campaigns featuring such icons as Smokey Bear and Rosie the Riveter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 659.19 MELPhilbrick, Nathaniel.
Summary: Philbrick carries readers back to the 1876 battle in Montana mythologized as "Custer's Last Stand." Focusing on the charismatic Sitting Bull and the recklessly brave George Armstrong Custer, Philbrick constructs a narrative of the battle that became the archetypal story of the West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 973.8 PHIPhilbrick, Nathaniel.
Summary: Little Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the American imagination with unmatched bravery and spectacular defeat. Mythologized as Custer's Last Stand, the June 1876 battle was also, even in victory, the last stand for the Sioux and Cheyenne Indian nations. The author sketches in details about the two larger-than-life antagonists: Sitting Bull, and George Armstrong Custer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.82 PHILittle Walter
Contents: Juke -- Can't hold out much longer -- Boogie -- Blue midnight (alt.) -- Mean old world -- Sad hours -- Don't need no horse -- Tell me mama -- Off the wall -- Quarter to twelve -- Blues with a feeling -- Too late -- Fast boogie -- Lights out -- Fast large one -- You're so fine -- Oh baby -- I got to find my baby -- Last night (first version) -- You better watch yourself -- Mellow down easy -- My...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chess/MCA 1993
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES LITL'Amour, Louis
Summary: Facts about the Sackett novels that includes real and fictional characters, geography, and historical eras.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1989
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 LAMLittle Big Town
Contents: Fine line (4:03) -- I'm with the band (4:26) -- That's where I'll be (4:53) -- Evangeline (4:35) -- Vapor (4:15) -- Novocaine (4:11) -- Only what you make of it (5:11) -- A place to land (3:14) -- Firebird fly (3:17) -- To know love (4:19) -- Lonely enough (4:25) -- Fury (4:26).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Equity Music Group 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY LITLittle, Booker
Contents: Disc 1 : Milestones -- Sweet and lovely -- Rounder's mood -- Dungeon waltz -- Jewel's tempo -- Moonlight becomes you -- Opening statement -- Minor sweet -- Bee tee's minor plea -- Life's a little blue -- The Grand valse -- Wo can I turn to?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enlightenment 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ LITLittle Milton.
Contents: The blues is alright (4:22) -- Room 244 (4:44) -- Annie Mae's cafe (5:05) -- Nothin' to write home about (4:18) -- My dog and me (4:47) -- Strugglin' lady (3:59) -- I was trying not to break down (4:11) -- Little bluebird (4:08) -- Walkin' the backstreets and cryin' (6:18) -- Catch you on your way down (4:29) -- A possum in my tree (5:43) -- Murder on your hands (3:20) -- Comeback kind of love...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Manufactured and distributed by Malaco Records & Tapes 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES LITCuster, Beth
Contents: Train song (2:29) -- Take/Place (5:15) -- Fall of the imperialist (2:40) -- The lips that kissed the paper (4:18) -- Billabong (5:14) -- Grey waters (4:45) -- Modesto suite. Words upon our feet ; The stubble of our grief ; They have no (4:46) -- 12 angry men (2:32) -- This is where I am now (4:33) -- Drop (4:46) -- One divided by two (4:32) -- Holster (3:00) -- Happy dance (1:39) -- Whisper it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BC Records 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CUSSyrett, Nicholas L.
Summary: "The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century-and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rights"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RESTELL, MADAME SYRLittle Milton.
Contents: CD One : St. Louis to Chi-Town. She put a spell on me ; Sneaking around ; I'm coming home ; Lonely no more ; Someone to love ; I need somebody ; My song ; Never too old ; I wonder why ; So mean to me ; Losing hand ; Ain't no big deal on you ; Meddlin' (instrumental) ; Blind man ; Stand by me ; Sacrifice ; Blues in the night ; You're welcome to the club ; Can't hold back the tears ; Country...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chess/MCA 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MILSummary: An Emmy® award-winning program, this episode from the PBS American Experience collection investigates the 1876 event that has become American folklore—the Battle of Little Big Horn—also known as “Custer's Last Stand.” Using journals, oral accounts, and Native American ledger drawings as well as archival and feature films, this program explores this watershed moment from two views: white and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Contents: My little red book / Love -- Beautiful Delilah / Chuck Berry -- Just one look / Doris Troy -- Fearless Mary Lou Lord -- Blue sands / The Chico Hamilton Quintet -- Caught being in love / Anthony Moore -- Arnold Lane / Robyn Hitchcock -- Love, pain & sorrow / Snowy White -- East-west / The Butterfield Blues Band -- Us and them / A Camp -- I loves you, Porgy / Miles Davis -- The piper at the gates...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1980
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJChu, Lenora
Summary: China's widely acclaimed yet insular education system is held up as a model of academic and behavioral excellence. Chu, an American journalist of Chinese descent raising a young family in Shanghai, noticed how well-behaved Chinese children were compared to her boisterous toddler. Enrolling three-year-old Rainer in China's state-run public school system, the immediate results were positive. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 370.951 CHUMaclean, Norman
Contents: The Custer writings. Edward S. Luce, Commanding General (retired), Department of the Little Bighorn ; From the unfinished Custer manuscript -- A Maclean sampler. This quarter I am taking McKeon--a few remarks on the art of teaching ; Billiards is a good game--gamesmanship and America's first nobel prize scientist ; Retrievers good and bad ; Logging and pimping and "Your pal, Jim" ; An incident...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5408 MACLittle Charlie and the Nightcats (Musical group)
Contents: Never trust a woman -- New old lady -- When your woman is gone -- You got your hooks in me -- Big and fat -- You don't love me that way -- Walkin' in the shadow of the blues -- Got it good -- Dirty dealin' mama -- Percolatin' -- I don't drink much -- Murmur low -- You got to rock.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alligator Records & Artist Management 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES LITTaylor, William O.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.82 TAYLittle Anthony
Summary: Features highlights from each style of their career, whether it be the doo-wop era or their foray into pop and soul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Records 1989