McMurtry, Larry.

Contents: The West without chili -- Inventing the West -- Chopping down the sacred tree -- A heroine of the prairies -- Zuni -- Cookie pioneers -- Powell of the Colorado -- Pulpmaster -- Janet Lewis -- The American epic -- Sacagawea's nickname -- Old misery.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2001

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Brown, Dee

Summary: Documents and personal narratives record the experiences of Native Americans during the nineteenth century.

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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt & Co. 2007

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McMurtry, Larry.

Summary: A history of the bloody massacres that marked--and marred--the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century, and which still provoke immense controversy today. Here are the true stories of the massacres at Sacramento River, Mountain Meadows, Sand Creek, Marias River, Camp Grant, and Wounded Knee, among others. These massacres involved Americans killing Indians, Indians killing...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 MCM

Hyde, Anne Farrar

Summary: "A revealing history of the West that pivots on Native peoples and the mixed families they made with European settlers. There is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using marriage to link communities and protect people within circles of kin. These family circles took in European newcomers who followed the fur trade...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022

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Slaughter, Thomas P. (Thomas Paul)

Summary: Exploring Lewis and Clark probes beneath the traditional narrative of the journey, looking beyond the perspectives of the explorers themselves to those of the woman and the men who accompanied them, as well as of the Indians who met them along the way. It reexamines the journals and what they suggest about Lewis's and Clark's misinterpretations of the worlds they passed through and the people...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LEW

Nelson, Megan Kate

Summary: "A dramatic, riveting, and deeply researched narrative account of the epic struggle for the West during the Civil War, revealing a little-known, vastly important episode in American history. In The Three-Cornered War Megan Kate Nelson reveals the fascinating history of the Civil War in the American West. Exploring the connections among the Civil War, the Indian wars, and western expansion,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019

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Hamilton, W. T. (William Thomas)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1982

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Sides, Hampton

Summary: Examines America's westward expansion, describing the forcible subjugation of Native American tribes, including the fierce battles against the Navajo which ended with a brutal siege at Canyon de Chelly and the "Long Walk" migration.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006

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Brown, Mark Herbert

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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt 1955

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Collins, Olive

Summary: "In 1865, Goldie O'Neill was nine years of age when she trekked across the unclaimed American West with her family to form their own Irish catholic Colony. Their new community had dreams of self-governance and prosperity far removed from the anti-Irish sentiment and prejudice of the ruling classes. They soon learned about the extremes of the American West and the ongoing Indian war. A year...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Collins 2020

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Cozzens, Peter

Summary: A magisterial, essential history of the struggle between whites and Native Americans over the fate of the West.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Utley, Robert Marshall

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1967

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.6 UTL

Summary: Trail of tears : Cherokee legacy: Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2009

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Cobb, Daniel M.

Summary: Join the Smithsonian Institution to discover the rich history of native Americans.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Cleland, Charles E.

Summary: For many thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans, Michigan's native peoples, the Anishnabeg, thrived in the forests and along the shores of the Great Lakes. Theirs were cultures in delicate social balance and in economic harmony with the natural order. Rites of Conquest details the struggles of Michigan Indians - the Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi, and their neighbors - to maintain...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Michigan Press 1992

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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 970.1 CLE

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Krohn, Katherine E.

Summary: Looks at the different modes of dress in the American West from the 1840s to the 1890s, examining the clothing and accessories of Native Americans, early pioneers, and the men and women of different social classes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-first Century Books 2012

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Gilio-Whitaker, Dina

Summary: "Interrogating the concept of environmental justice in the U.S. as it relates to Indigenous peoples, this book argues that a different framework must apply compared to other marginalized communities, while it also attends to the colonial history and structure of the U.S. and ways Indigenous peoples continue to resist, and ways the mainstream environmental movement has been an impediment to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011

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Treuer, David

Summary: The received idea of Native American history -- as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's 1970 mega-bestselling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee -- has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019

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