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History, as portrayed in this film, has been a succession of conquests of stronger races over weaker ones. As played out on the stage of Monument Valley, long ago, tribes of Indians defeated the ancient cliff dwellers; then came the Europeans to conquer the Indians.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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It was no work for a woman. That's what they told Mary Breydon when she came to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. But Mary had no choice. Her fine Virginia home burned to ashes in the Civil War and her husband was brutally shot down on the way to Colorado. She needed to make a new beginning for herself and her young daughter on the raw frontier. Isolated in an untamed land, their life at the station was achingly hard and they...
4) Callaghen
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Callaghen's business is soldiering. For twenty years he'd fought all over the world, from China to the deserts of California; now he's a private in the U.S. Calvary, poorly paid, his enlistment about to run out. He's ready to move on...until he comes across a startling discovery: a treasure map belonging to a dead lieutenant who may not have been all that he seemed. The map points the way to an underground river of gold...or does it? To find out,...
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To limit the influence of the French along the Mississippi River, the Spanish send out an expedition to capture Indians allied with the French. The result is a massacre by the Pawnee. A young Spanish captive is a slave at first, but later marries into the Pawnee tribe. This is the eighteenth novel in the popular Spanish Bit series that chronicles early contact between native Americans and white settlers and explorers.
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Rivers West volume 18
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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At the far western edge of the Great Plains, where the prairie meets the mountains, flows the South Platte, drawing farmers, traders and trappers to land long held sacred by two proud tribes. As the pioneers stake claims beside the pure waters of the rive
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One of Frank Waters's most popular novels, People of the Valley takes place high in the Sangre de Cristo mountains where an isolated Spanish-speaking people confront a threatening world of change."Readers who are content to take the primitive and ruthless Maria del Valle on her own terms will treasure her and return to her again and again." --The New York Times"Mr. Waters has created in Old Maria a character of vital and lyrical intensity. His 'people...
10) The last trail
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Jonathan Zane seeks revenge against the man who abducted his sweetheart and controls a gang of marauding outlaws and Indians.
11) The Texas rifles
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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Six-time winner of the Golden Spur Award, Elmer Kelton crafts stories that carry listeners into some of the most vivid years of the American West. Texas Rifles is an action-filled tale of courage in the face of divided loyalties. In 1861, men are enlisting in the Texas Mounted Rifles to keep the land free from Indian raids. There are larger conflicts, however. Texas has seceded from the union while war brews between the North and the South. Sam Houston...
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As the Revolutionary war draws to an end, the violence on the frontier only accelerates. The infamous Girty brothers incite Indians to a number to massacres, but when the Village of Peace, a Christian utopian settlement is destroyed, the settlers know they will have to hunt him down.
13) Bloody hand
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St. Martin's
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1996, c1975
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English
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An ex-slave, a mountain man, and trading company's agent, Jim Beckwith eventually becomes "Blood Hand", a warrior amongst the Crow Indians.
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Shipwrecked on the coast of North Carolina, his companions killed, Tatton Chantry is alone--and ready for action. In the Old World he fought wars, skirmishes, duels. Now, in the wilderness of America, this swashbuckling hero takes up against pirates, Spanish fortune seekers, savage Indians. Aided by a beautiful Peruvian woman, he braves the fierce challenges of the New World--always, like a true Chantry, with his expert hand on the hilt of his faithful...
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Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1990
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English
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AndrÉ Marcher and his half-brother Ben Amiel have set out from the East to find the map in an uncle's prairie grave that will lead them to a fabulous gold mine. White River, a son of murdered pioneers brought up by Indians, signs on as their guide (though his heart isn't in it); and Ironfoot meets up with them en route, a Crow chief also searching for a grave, his son's, in the midst of his Sioux enemies. Ironfoot's invitation enables the others...
19) Utah!
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Wagons West. Main series volume 12
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Brawny work gangs and rugged engineers blast out tunnels and lay countless miles of rails to link a vast continent from coast to coast. Indians and unscruplous ranchers try to stop them while Toby Holt tries to keep order in the land.