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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 MCMMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: In this lavishly illustrated volume, Larry McMurtry, the greatest chronicler of the American West, tackles for the first time one of the paramount figures of Western and American history--George Armstrong Custer. McMurtry also argues that Custer's last stand at the Little Bighorn should be seen as a monumental event in our nation's history. Like all great battles, its true meaning can be found...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.82 CUSTER, GEORGE A MCMMcMurtry, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 MCMMcMurtry, Larry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FICTION McMurtryMcMurtry, Larry
Summary: Recounts myths of the closing decades of the western frontier viewed through the eyes of Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson, orphans that make good in the town of Rita Blanca in what would become the Oklahoma Panhandle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2006
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Summary: "Pulitzer Prize Winner Larry McMurtry turns his attention to George A. Custer, a complex man who has captivated historians for over a century. From graduating last in his class at West Point to leading the ill-fated 7th cavalry in the attack at the Littel Bighorn, Custer forged a legacy-- still very much alive today-- as one of the West's most enduring hisstorical figures" -- from publisher's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Summary: Larry McMurtry chronicles the experiences he had while traveling through Tahiti and the South Sea Islands and shares what he learned about his parents' relationship along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCMURTRY, LARRY MCMMcMurtry, Larry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2005
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Summary: A biography which looks back across more than 120 years at the life and death of the great Sioux warrior Crazy Horse, who became a reluctant leader at the battle of Little Big Horn and remains a mythic figure in American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lipper/Viking Book 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRAZY HORSE MCMMcMurtry, 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 MCMMcMurtry, Larry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 McMurMcMurtry, Larry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1989