Boyden, Joseph
Summary: "History reveals itself when, in the seventeenth century, a Jesuit missionary ventures into the Canadian wilderness in search of converts-the defining moment of first contact between radically different worlds. What unfolds over the next several years istruly epic, constantly illuminating and surprising, sometimes comic, always entrancing and ultimately all too human in its tragic grandeur. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYBittner, Rosanne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BITKelton, Elmer.
Summary: After his company of Texas rangers is disbanded, David "Rusty" Shannon returns home to his land on the Red River, where he encounters a young white boy known as Badger Boy who had been taken from his murdered parents by a Comanche warrior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: WESTERN KeltonChiaventone, Frederick J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHICrawford, Max
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRAL'Amour, Louis (Dearborn)
Summary: Determined to settle an old score and break into the seemingly impenetrable Obaro bank, Considine finds himself sidetracked when he joins an old man and his daughter in a last stand against a band of Apache warriors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1962
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Summary: Many a hardcase had died trying to tale the bank and settle an old score at the same time. But he never counted on meeting a beautiful woman and her trail-savvy but reckless father, headed a straight for Apache country. Now Considine and his gang can either ride like hell for the border just ahead of an angry posse, or join the old man and his daughter in a desperate last stand against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2008
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Summary: Hondo Lane was a big, strong man, a tough man, unstoppable in a fight, but he was not a cruel man. Now, with the Apaches on the warpath, he finds a young woman and her son living in a ranch that is slowly going to pieces. Her husband is a degenerate who spends much of his time at the local fort cheating at cards and rustling cattle. Hondo must deal with the Indians, good and bad, in an effort...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMKelton, Elmer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1992
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Western Kelton 1992L'Amour, Louis
Summary: Many a hardcase had died trying to tale the bank and settle an old score at the same time. But he never counted on meeting a beautiful woman and her trail-savvy but reckless father, headed a straight for Apache country. Now Considine and his gang can either ride like hell for the border just ahead of an angry posse, or join the old man and his daughter in a desperate last stand against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2005
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1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: LP FICTION L'AmourVollmann, William T.
Summary: 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 border. Vollmann's main character is not the legendary Chief Joseph, but his pursuer, General Oliver Otis Howard, the brave, shy, tormented, devoutly Christian Civil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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Summary: 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 border. Vollmann's main character is not the legendary Chief Joseph, but his pursuer, General Oliver Otis Howard, the brave, shy, tormented, devoutly Christian Civil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC VOL PT 2 OF 2Johnston, Terry C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 1992
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Summary: In this new installment in his 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Vollmann 2015Johnston, Terry C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Otis Audio 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 1991
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chivers Press 1997
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1983
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BROSummary: "There has been a great deal of writing the past several decades about Native American Code Talkers of World War Two. The published works have been about Navajos and the tremendous contribution they made in the Pacific campaigns of the war. What is often overlooked is the role played in both World Wars by men of other tribes. There were Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek and other tribal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2019
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Summary: After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2005
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Summary: Ten-year-old ghost Isaac is following his Choctaw people as they relocate to Indian Territory, but when he discovers that he can time travel, he heads back to 1824 to Washington DC where Choctaw Chief Pushmataha was betrayed by Andrew Jackson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The RoadRunner Press 2018
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Summary: Join the Smithsonian Institution to discover the rich history of native Americans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 NATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD NATContents: Part I, Pembina Chippewa drum songs. Soldier's honor song ; New grass dance song ; Rock dance song ; Go homing song ; Love song/Round dance ; Buffalo song ; Many eagles set sun dance song -- Part II, French songs, from elders to children. Le matelot de Montréal = The sailor from Montreal ; Chanson à boire = Drinking song ; Le garçon le moins heureux = The most unhappy fellow ; Napoléon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 1992