Wallis, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2007
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Summary: In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped would be the most rewarding journey of a lifetime. But in eagerly pursuing what would a century later become known as the "American dream," this optimistic-yet-motley crew of emigrants was met with a chilling nightmare; in the following...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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Summary: Historian Wallis has spent several years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time and yet remains an enigma to this day. With the Gilded Age in full swing and the Industrial Revolution reshaping the American landscape, "the Kid," who was gunned down by Sheriff Pat Garrett in the New Mexico Territory at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999
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Summary: The story of the Cherokee Nation is told by Wilma Mankiller, who recounts her life and the racism she faced in her fight to lead it. Wilma Mankiller has been the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation since 1985. She tells her personal story (her political awakening came during the 1970 occupation of Alcatraz island), interwoven with the complex history of the Cherokee Nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANKILLER, WILMA MANSummary: A New Orleans teenager struggles to graduate from high school while working at a sleazy French Quarter club to support his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000