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Best of Dee Brown's West : an anthology / Dee Brown ; edited by Stan Banash.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Santa Fe, N.M. : Clear Light Publishers, c1998.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvii, 366 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0940666774 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • F591 .B863 1998
Contents:
The early frontier. The pirates of the Ohio -- The great adventure -- Intrigue on the Natchez Trace -- The Trail of Tears -- Spoils and scandal. Along the Santa Fe Trail -- Brides by the boatload -- The Belknap scandal -- Heroes, heroines, and outlaws. Jim Bridger -- A girl with the Donner Pass Party -- Ely S. Parker : "one real American" -- The ordeal of Surgeon Tappan -- How Standing Bear became a person -- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid -- Seeds of change. Story of the Plains Indians -- The day of the buffalo -- Day of the longhorns -- The Pony Express -- The settlement of the Great Plains -- Final battles. In pursuit of revenge : the Sioux Uprising of 1862 -- Galvanized Yankees -- Beecher's Island -- Geronimo -- The ghost dance and the Battle of Wounded Knee.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks F591.B863 1998 1 Available 33710000813324

Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-353) and index.

WAR, NEWBERY,

The early frontier. The pirates of the Ohio -- The great adventure -- Intrigue on the Natchez Trace -- The Trail of Tears -- Spoils and scandal. Along the Santa Fe Trail -- Brides by the boatload -- The Belknap scandal -- Heroes, heroines, and outlaws. Jim Bridger -- A girl with the Donner Pass Party -- Ely S. Parker : "one real American" -- The ordeal of Surgeon Tappan -- How Standing Bear became a person -- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid -- Seeds of change. Story of the Plains Indians -- The day of the buffalo -- Day of the longhorns -- The Pony Express -- The settlement of the Great Plains -- Final battles. In pursuit of revenge : the Sioux Uprising of 1862 -- Galvanized Yankees -- Beecher's Island -- Geronimo -- The ghost dance and the Battle of Wounded Knee.