Black Kettle

Author : Jason Leclerc
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480828889

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Black Kettle by Jason Leclerc Pdf

Picking up where the fragmented narrative of Momentitiousness left off, Black Kettle explores the many manifestations of hope and deceit in the human experience. This is a novella collection--sweet, sensual, sadistic, and sullen--where independently complete stories burst forth with playful vigor, featuring heroes and antiheroes alike. Using the true story of Black Kettle--a peaceful Cheyenne Indian chief, who was gruesomely slaughtered in the 1860s--as a metaphorical backdrop, the text builds on the ambivalence inherent in hypocrisy. More than blood and guts, sex and postapocalyptical musing, Black Kettle derives its power from an understanding of both the human mind and the human soul. In the novella Black Kettle, witness the moments immediately preceding, during, and after two galactic earth-shattering events. In Trayvon, observe young men as they discover the shifting tangents connected by sexuality, love, and family. Finally, in The Nola Trilogy, watch carnal pleasure morph into sentimentality, heartbreak, and eventual rebirth.

Author : Charles J. Brill
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 080613416X

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Custer, Black Kettle, and the Fight on the Washita by Charles J. Brill Pdf

Using Cheyenne and Arapaho accounts, Charles J. Brill tells the story of General George Armstrong Custer’s winter campaign on the southern plains in 1868-69, including his attack in Black Kettle’s village on the snowy backs of the Washita River. Brill’s searing account details the ruthlessness of the U.S. Army’s efforts to punish southern plains tribes for what they considered incessant raiding and depredation. Brill provides the Indian point of view as he follows Custer into a battle that remains controversial to the present day. In a new foreword to this edition, Mark L. Gardner discusses the significance of Brill’s history-placing it in context with other Custer and Indian Wars studies-and its Value to scholars and general readers today. Gardner also provides an overview of the career of Oklahoma journalist Charles J. Brill, much of whose life has remained a mystery until now.

Author : Thom Hatch
Publisher : Castle Books Incorporated
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0785825479

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Black Kettle by Thom Hatch Pdf

The Compelling, Tragic Story of a Great Cheyenne Chief As white settlers poured into the west during the nineteenth century, many famous Indian chiefs fought to stop them, including Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Geronimo. But one great Cheyenne chief, Black Kettle, understood that the whites could not be stopped. To save his people, he worked unceasingly to establish peace and avoid bloodshed. Yet despite his heroic efforts, the Cheyennes were repeatedly betrayed and would become the victims of two notorious massacres, the second of which cost Black Kettle his life. In this first biography of black Kettle, historian Thom Hatch at last gives us the full story of this illustrious Native American leader, offering an unforgettable portrait of a chief who sought peace but found war. Praise For Thom Hatch The Blue, the Gray, and the Red Clear and even-handed. . . . This popular history recounts grim, bloody, lesser-known events of the Civil War. . . . The slaughter of Black Kettle's Cheyennes at Sand Creek . . . forms a devastating chapter. -Publishers Weekly The Custer Companion Highly recommended . . . a reliable and impartial guide to the subject and literature. -Library Journal Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn A work that is readable by itself, meticulously researched and clearly written. -The Tulsa World

Author : John G. Neihardt
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0871296152

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Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt Pdf

"Black Elk Speaks is the story of the Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during the momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk met the distinguished poet, writer, and critic John G. Neihardt (1881-1973) in 1930 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and chose Neihardt to tell his story. Neihardt understood and conveyed Black Elk's experiences in this powerful and inspirational message for all humankind." "This new edition features two additional essays by John G. Neihardt that further illuminate his experience with Black Elk; an essay by Alexis Petri, great-granddaughter of John G. Neihardt, that celebrates Neihardt's remarkable accomplishments; and a look at the legacy of the special relationship between Neihardt and Black Elk, written by Lori Utecht, editor of Knowledge and Opinion: Essays and Literary Criticism of John G. Neihardt."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Doris Seale,Beverly Slapin
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780759114715

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A Broken Flute by Doris Seale,Beverly Slapin Pdf

A Broken Flute is a book of reviews that critically evaluate children's books about Native Americans written between the early 1900s and 2003, accompanied by stories, essays and poems from its contributors. The authors critique some 600 books by more than 500 authors, arranging titles A to Z and covering pre-school, K-12 levels, and evaluations of some adult and teacher materials. This book is a valuable resource for community and educational organizations, and a key reference for public and school libraries, and Native American collections.

Author : Cinita Davis Brown
Publisher : Ozark Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 1567632920

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The Black Kettle Ride by Cinita Davis Brown Pdf

In 1844 Tom Brown and his two newborn twin daughters join other pioneer families traveling by wagon train from Indiana to Missouri.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1278 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : OSU:32435065917098

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Blainey
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742283272

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Black Kettle and Full Moon by Geoffrey Blainey Pdf

In the bestselling Black Kettle and Full Moon, master storyteller Geoffrey Blainey takes us on another absorbing journey – a guided tour of a vanished Australia. Covering the years from the first gold rush to World War I. Blainey paints a fascinating picture of how our forebears lived – in the outback, in towns and cities, at sea and on land. He looks at all aspects of daily life, from billycans to brass bands, from ice-making to etiquette, from pipes to pubs. The engaging text is further brought alive by an evocative selection of contemporary illustrations by artists such as Julian Ashton.This is Geoffrey Blainey doing what he does best bringing to life for the modern reader the sighs and sounds and smells of another time.

Author : Mary Thomas
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459704091

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Canadians with Custer by Mary Thomas Pdf

During the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 17 Canadians stood by Lieutenant-Colonel Custer’s side. There were 17 Canadians present when Lieutenant-Colonel George Armstrong Custer made his last stand in the battle at Little Bighorn River in 1876. Some had served in the Civil War, some were close friends or admirers of Custer, and some were mercenaries who just wanted a job with adventure. William Winer Cooke, the scion of two prominent wealthy families in Upper Canada, became Custer’s right-hand man. Mark Kellogg, a Canadian-American, was a journalist who joined the expedition by chance and documented the adventure in newspaper articles sent back east. Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were among the leaders of the Sioux and Cheyenne nations’ victorious warriors in this desperate attempt to save their lands from the white invasion. Canadians with Custer tells the stories of the Canadians who joined the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army and provides new information on Custer’s fatal battle.

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Special Committee to Inquire into the Condition of the Indian Tribes
Publisher : Kraus Reprint. Company
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015000025230

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Condition of the Indian Tribes by United States. Congress. Joint Special Committee to Inquire into the Condition of the Indian Tribes Pdf

Report (p.1-10) is followed by an Appendix ([ii]+532 p.) containing letters, field dispatches, and military orders on the progress of the Indian Wars in 1862-65, and depositions and letters from Indian Agents in 1865 replying to questions from the Office of Indian Affairs.

Author : Dee Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439125564

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The American West by Dee Brown Pdf

Renowned storyteller Dee Brown, author of the bestselling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, recreates the struggles of Native Americans, settlers, and ranchers in this stunning volume that illuminates the history of the old West that’s filled with maps and vintage photographs. Beginning with the demise of the Native Americans of the Plains, Brown depicts the onrush of the burgeoning cattle trade and the waves of immigrants who ultimately “settled” the land. In the retelling of this oft-told saga, Brown has demonstrated once again his abilities as a master storyteller and an entertaining popular historian. By turns heroic, tragic, and even humorous, The American West brings to life American tragedy and triumph in the years from 1840 to the turn of the century, and a roster of characters both great and small: Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Dull Knife, Crazy Horse, Captain Jack, John H. Tunstall, Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Wyatt Earp, the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, Wild Bill Hickok, Charles Goodnight, Oliver Loving, Buffalo Bill, and many others. The American West is about cattle and the railroads; it is about settlers who came to claim a land not originally their own and how they slowly imposed law and order on these wild and untamed places; and it is about the wanton destruction of the Native American way of life. This is epic history at its best and popular history at its most readable. This new work is culled from Dee Brown’s highly acclaimed writings, which instantly established him as one of America’s foremost Western authorities. Fully revised, rewritten, and edited into one seamless account of America’s most famous frontier, this epic narrative, along with the introduction and a chronological table of events, etches an unforgettable and poignant portrait. The American West is at once a tribute to the West and a majestic new peak for a writer whose long and successful career has been synonymous with excellence in frontier history.

Author : j.p. dunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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massacres of the mountains a history of the indian wars of the far west by j.p. dunn Pdf

Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 4371 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216044741

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Almanac of American Military History [4 volumes] by Spencer C. Tucker Pdf

This almanac provides a comprehensive, chronological overview of all American military history, serving as the standard reference work of its type. Almanac of American Military History is yet another reference work from acclaimed historian Dr. Spencer C. Tucker and ABC-CLIO, offering an unprecedented resource for a wide range of students and researchers. A comprehensive, four-volume title, this almanac traces all of American military history from the European voyages of discovery through 2011, chronicling the pivotal moments that have shaped the United States into the country it is today. In addition to documenting key events, this title presents biographies of more than 250 key individuals and provides information on more than 250 historically significant technologies and weapons systems. A detailed glossary is included, as are discussions of ranks and military awards and decorations. Divided into conflict periods, each chapter includes a detailed chronology, reference-entry sidebars, statistical information, primary-source documents, and a bibliography.

Author : Frank Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Colorado
ISBN : PRNC:32101060830062

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History of the State of Colorado, Embracing Accounts of the Pre-historic Races and Their Remains by Frank Hall Pdf

Author : James W. M. Newlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : NYPL:33433081750261

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Proposed Indian Policy by James W. M. Newlin Pdf

"The only alternative which civilization offers to the Indians is gradual absorption or extermination. There is no middle ground between these two extremes. But before they can be absorbed they must be led to civilization and citizenship. After that they will in time gradually assimilate with the general population and thus cease to be a separate and distinct race." Page 1.