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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Strongheart is the final installment to the One Thousand White Women trilogy, a novel about fierce women who are full of heart and the power to survive. In 1873, a Cheyenne chief offers President Grant the opportunity to exchange one thousand horses for one thousand white women, in order to marry them with his warriors and create a lasting peace. These women, 'recruited' by force in the penitentiaries and asylums of the country, gradually integrate...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This sequel to Donald McCaig's award-winning Civil War novel Jacob's Ladder delivers a gripping saga of Reconstruction America from Lee's 1865 surrender at Appomattox to Custer's 1876 massacre at Little Big Horn. McCaig follows the changing fortunes of a diverse ensemble of characters, including Edward, a wartime top sergeant for the 38th Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops. Travelling west as a scout, trail cook, cattle driver, and sharpshooter, he marries...
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Andrew Huebner makes his debut with a novel that Booklist praises as "simply told and simply devastating." In American by Blood, Huebner gives a fictional account of three scouts after they discover the results of Custer's last stand at Little Big Horn. Ordered to follow the trail of the retreating Sioux Indians, they lead their fellow cavalrymen into bloody battles in which no life is spared. But the horror and the bloodshed the three witness are...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (7 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Johnny D. Boggs turns the battlefield itself into a character in this historical retelling of Custer's Last Stand, when George Custer led most of his command to annihilation at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in southern Montana in 1876.
More than forty first-person narratives are used-Indian and white, military and civilian, men and women-to paint a panorama of the battle itself.
Boggs brings the events and personalities of the Battle of the Little...