Skenandore, Amanda
Summary: "On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma's childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harry--or Asku, as Alma knew him--was the most promising student at the 'savage-taming' boarding school run by her father, where Alma was the only white pupil. Created in the wake of the Indian Wars,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Otto, Shawn Lawrence.
Summary: "From the screenwriter of the Oscar-nominated House of Sand and Fog, a fierce, elegant, page-turning novel about race, money, and the American Dream JW is a small-town banker. His specialty: teaching other bankers in towns near Indian reservations how to profit from casino deposits without exposing themselves to risk. His problem: having lost his son in a car accident a year ago, JW is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OTTJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "Luke Ransom was just eighteen years old when he answered an ad in a St. Louis newspaper that would change his life forever. The American Fur Company needed one hundred enterprising men to travel up the Missouri River--the longest in North America--all the way to its source. They would hunt and trap furs for one, two, or three years. Along the way, they would face unimaginable hardships:...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHBoyden, 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. ...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYFlorio, Gwen
Summary: "Foreign correspondent Lola Wicks is pissed. Downsized from her Kabul posting, her editor reassigns her to a stateside suburban beat formerly the province of interns. Arriving in Montana for some R&R at a friend's cabin, her friend is nowhere in sight. Anger turns to terror when Lola discovers her friend shot dead. She can't get out of Montana fast enough, but finds that she can't as she's held...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Permanent Press 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLOOsborne, David
Summary: A "novel of native-white relations in North America, intimately told through the life of Daytime Smoke--the real-life red-haired son of William Clark and a Nez Perce woman. In 1805, Lewis and Clark stumble out of the Rockies on the edge of starvation. The Nez Perce help the explorers build canoes and navigate the rapids of the Columbia, then spend two months hosting them the following spring...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OSBHoladay, M. M.
Summary: "After four years of adventure in the frontier, Win Avery returns to his hometown on the edge of the prairie and tracks down his childhood friend, Jeb Dawson. Jeb has just lost his parents, and, in his efforts to console him, Win convinces his friend to travel west with him -- to see the frontier before it is settled, while it is still unspoiled wilderness. They embark on a free-spirited...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Holaday 2017Fergus, Jim
Summary: "9 March 1876 My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction FerJacobs, Wilbur R.
Contents: Indian-white contact: background. The white man's frontier in American history: the impact upon the land and the Indian -- Unsavory sidelights on Colonial trade -- Wampum and the protocol of treaty-making -- White gift-giving: French skills in managing the Indians -- Indian-white contact: frontier conflicts. -- British Indian-white relations: Edmond Atkin's scheme for imperial control -- A...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1985