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(0)Alvin M. Josephy
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Language
English
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This book is the first comprehensive history of the Civil War as it was fought from the western fringe of the Mississippi Valley to the Pacific Ocean, and it portrays in rich detail the battles, personalities, and issues involved.--[book cover]\\Details the Civil War as it war fought from the western edge of the Mississippi Valley to the Pacific Ocean.
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Description
Told through the life stories of nine Indian chiefs, this narrative depicts the American Indian effort to preserve a heritage and resist the changes brought by the white man. Hiawatha, King Philip, Pope, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola, Black Hawk, Crazy Horse, and Chief Joseph each represent different tribal backgrounds, different times, and places, and different aspects of Indian leadership. Soldiers, philosophers, orators, and statesmen, these leaders...
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Language
English
Description
This is the stirring, crowded, epic story - laden with courageous deeds and dreams fulfilled and betrayed - of the hundreds of Indian nations that have inhabited our continent for more than 15,000 years and their centuries-long struggle with the Europeans who arrived in ever-increasing hordes after 1492. Here is American history from the Native American point of view - a long saga of friendship, treachery, war, and ultimately the loss of homeland...
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Publisher
Vintage Books, A Division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Josephy's books and essays advocated for a fair and true historical assessment of Native Americans and set the course for modern Native American studies. This collection gives a generous and reasoned view of five hundred years of Indian history in North America, from the first settlements in the East to the long trek of the Nez Perce Indians in the Northwest.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of the so-called Inland Empire of the Northwest, that rugged and majestic region bounded east and west by the Cascades and the Rockies, from the time of the great exploration of Lewis and Clark to the tragic defeat of Chief Joseph in 1877." "And at the center of this history - perhaps even more relevant today than at the original publication of this classic volume - is the confrontation of the Indian and non-Indian during this nation's,...
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"For the first time in the two hundred years since Lewis and Clark led their expedition from St. Louis to the Pacific, we hear the other side of the story--as we listen to nine descendants of the Indians whose homelands were traversed. Among those who speak: Newspaper editor Mark Trahant writes of his childhood belief that he was descended from Clark and what his own research uncovers. Award-winning essayist and fiction writer Debra Magpie Earling...
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