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BATTLE OF LITTLE BIGHORN
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The Fetterman Massace
• Dee Brown
HISTORY •
1984 •
PAPER
• 251 PAGES
First published as "Fort Phil Kearny, an American Saga," here is an account of the 1866 defeat of Captain W.J. Fetterman and his 80 men at the hands of the Oglala Sioux.
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The Fighting Cheyennes
• George Bird Grinnell
• Stanley Vestal
HISTORY •
1983 •
PAPER
• 468 PAGES
First published in 1915, this classic history of the battles fought by the Cheyenne Indians in the 19th century presents the struggle from point of view of the Cheyenne, often incorporating their own words. Grinnell was a pioneering historian, naturalist and conservationist who devoted himself to the plight of the American Indian. Grinnel was the naturalist on Custer's expedition to the Black Hills in 1874.
(USP15, $24.95) |
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Fools Crow
• James Welch
LITERATURE •
1987 •
PAPER
• 391 PAGES
Set in Montana shortly after the Civil War, this novel tells of Fools Crow, a young Blackfoot Indian on the verge of manhood, and his tribe, known as the Lone Eaters. The invasion of white society threatens to change their traditional way of life, and they must choose to fight or assimilate. The story is a powerful portrait of a fading of way of life.
(USW308, $16.00) |
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History of Wyoming
• T. A. Larson
HISTORY •
1993 •
PAPER
• 695 PAGES
Condensed from the author's monumental multi-volume history, this is the classic fact-filled and definitive history of the state.
(USW66, $40.00) |
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The Last Best Place, A Montana Anthology
• William Kittredge
ANTHOLOGY •
2003 •
PAPER
• 1158 PAGES
Farmer-turned-writer Kittredge collects historic and contemporary writings on Montana -- a monumental undertaking justified by the diversity of memoirs, stories and history included. The selections range from Native American myths, to pioneer accounts, and contemporary fiction and poetry. Kittredge introduces each chapter and selection.
(USW55, $40.00) |
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Pretty-Shield, Medicine Woman of the Crows
• Frank B. Linderman
• Alma Snell
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2003 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
A new edition of the classic oral history of the Crows by Frank Linderman (1869-1938), who lived among the Native Americans of the northern plains. A powerful healer, Pretty-Shield tells of life among the Crow, their history, social structure and traditions. Originally published in 1932.
(USP17, $14.95) |
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Rising from the Plains
• John McPhee
NATURAL HISTORY •
1986 •
PAPER
• 213 PAGES
Few nature writers are as vivid or compelling as John McPhee. A great storyteller and reporter, here he profiles U.S. Geological Survey scientist David Love while simultaneously writing a sophisticated, elegant and accessible description of the geology of Wyoming and, by extension, the northern Rockies.
(USW18, $16.00) |
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Two Leggings, The Making of a Crow Warrior
• Peter Nabokov
• William Wildschut
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1982 •
PAPER
• 242 PAGES
Over the course of four years (1919-1923), Crow warrior Two Leggings told the story of his life to William Wildschut, an ethnologist and photogapher. Peter Nabokov has taken these interviews and crafted them into a detailed portrait of the Plains Indians in the second half of the 19th-century, documenting their spiritual and religous traditions, the wars they fought, and one man's quest to become a chief of his people.
(USP18, $17.95) |
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