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From tales of early baseball in the old west to the young men who
fought for Texas Independence, these short stories by experts in
their fields bring together a different view of the American
West-the tales of the young men and women who were part of the
story. Authors included in the anthology: Larry Bjornson; Johnny D.
Boggs; Joseph Bruchac; S.J. Dahlstrom; Chris Enss; Rocky Gibbons;
William Groneman; Frank Keating; Jean A. Lukesh; Bill Markley;
Matthew Mayo; Rod Miller; Micki Milom; Sherry Monahan; Candy
Moulton; Nancy Oswald; Nancy Plain; Vicky Rose; Quackgrass Sally;
Candace Simar; Ginger Wadsworth
The Nez Perce people lived in peace with white intruders in their
homelands from the time of Lewis & Clark until 1863 when a
treaty called for the tribe's removal to a reservation in Idaho.
Chief Joseph (1840-1904), headman of the Nez Perce band in
northeastern Oregon's Wallowa Valley, became the greatest diplomat,
philosopher, and--from necessity rather than choice--war leader of
his people and among the most respected Indian leaders of American
history.
In this meticulous and moving new study of Joseph's life, Candy
Moulton--
who has traveled over all the trails he and his people
blazed--emphasizes the pivotal year of 1877, when the frontier
military tried to force Joseph and his people onto the reservation.
Instead of meekly following these outrageous orders, he led 750 Nez
Perces on a 1,500-mile, four-month flight from western Idaho across
Montana and through the Yellowstone country and northwest Wyoming
toward safety in Canada. After many battles, the flight ended at
the Bear Paws mountains in north-central Montana, just forty miles
from the Canadian border and potential refuge. There the U.S. Army
surrounded the Nez Perces, captured their horse herd, killed all
but two of their primary chiefs, and forced capitulation. When
Joseph surrendered to military leaders he told them, "From where
the sun now stands I will fight no more forever."
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Colorado's roads wind through country that is steeped in history,
sometimes tracing routes with a history of their own, from the
Santa Fe Trail to the Million Dollar Highway. But no matter where
you roam in this beautiful state, this book can guide you. Like
other books in this popular series, _Roadside History of Colorado_
is divided into geographical-historical areas, making it easy to
explore the state region by region. Mesmerizing tales of adventure
and tragedy - including canibalism on the "Starvation Trail," the
infamous Sand Creek Massacre, the jailing of Mother Jones, and the
Big Thompson River flood of 1976 - will thrill both Coloradans and
visitors. Includes 120 black-and-white photographs, 7 maps,
chronology, bibliography, and index.
Everyday Life in the Wild West shows you firsthand what it was like
to tame the praries, fight the battles and build the boomtowns.
From the vittles people ate (including boudins and buffalo humps)
to what they wore (such as linsey-woolsey, caliso and duck), this
book is packed with historical accounts, maps and photographs to
give you a complete perspective of this fascinating era.
A perfect guide for writers, students, and historians! Everyday
Life Among the American Indians corrects decades of misinformation
with insightful, accurate scholarship that belongs on the shelf of
anyone interested in reading - or writing - the real story.
Covering more than 500 tribes and including maps, illustrations,
chronologies, and detailed overviews of day-to-day life, this
invaluable reference for writers, researchers and students is at
once comprehensive and strikingly accessible. From the Louisiana
Purchase to the Trail of Tears to Wounded Knee and beyond, the
author vividly portrays the disappearing cultures of
nineteenth-century American Indians with dignity and in astonishing
detail, including information on: tribal leadership, weaponry and
warfare, food and shelter, tools and medicine, languages, customs,
religions, and crime and punishment.
On a September day in 1877, hundreds of Sioux and soldiers at Camp
Robinson crowded around a fatally injured Lakota leader. A young
doctor forced his way through the crowd, only to see the victim
fading before him. It was the famed Crazy Horse. From intense
moments like this to encounters with such legendary western figures
as Calamity Jane and Red Cloud, Valentine Trant O'Connell
McGillycuddy's life (1849-1939) encapsulated key events in American
history that changed the lives of Native people forever. In
Valentine T. McGillycuddy: Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux, the
first biography of the man in seventy years, award-winning author
Candy Moulton explores McGillycuddy's fascinating experiences on
the northern plains as topographer, cartographer, physician, and
Indian agent.Drawing on family papers, interviews, government
documents, and a host of other sources, Moulton presents a colorful
character - a thin, blue-eyed, cultured physician who could
outdrink trail-hardened soldiers. In fresh, vivid prose, she traces
McGillycuddy's work mapping out the U.S.-Canadian border; treating
the wounded from the battles of the Rosebud, the Little Bighorn,
and Slim Buttes; tending to Crazy Horse during his final hours; and
serving as agent to the Sioux at Pine Ridge, where he clashed with
Chief Red Cloud over the government's assimilation policies. Along
the way, Moulton weaves in the perspective of McGillycuddy's
devoted first wife, Fanny, who followed her husband west and wrote
of the realities of camp life. McGillycuddy's doctoring of Crazy
Horse marked only one point of his interaction with American
Indians. But those relationships were also just one aspect of his
life in the West, which extended well into the twentieth century.
Enhanced by more than 20 photographs, this long-overdue biography
offers general readers and historians an engaging adventure story
as well as insight into a period of tumultuous change.
In 1856 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints employed a
new means of getting converts to Great Salt Lake City who could not
afford the journey otherwise. They began using handcarts, thus
initiating a five-year experiment that has become a legend in the
annals of Mormon and North American migration. Only one in ten
Mormon emigrants used handcarts, but of those 3,000 who did between
1856 and 1860, most survived the harrowing journey to settle Utah
and become members of a remarkable pioneer generation. Others were
not so lucky. More than 200 died along the way, victims of
exhaustion, accident, and, for a few, starvation and exposure to
late-season Wyoming blizzards. Now, Candy Moulton tells of their
successes, travails, and tragedies in an epic retelling of a
legendary story. The Mormon Handcart Migration traces each stage of
the journey, from the transatlantic voyage of newly converted
church members to the gathering of the faithful in the eastern
Nebraska encampment known as Winter Quarters. She then traces their
trek from the western Great Plains, across modern-day Wyoming, to
their final destination at Great Salt Lake. The handcart experiment
was the brainchild of Mormon leader Brigham Young, who decreed that
the saints could haul their own possessions, pushing or pulling
two-wheeled carts across 1,100 miles of rough terrain, much of it
roadless and some of it untrodden. The LDS church now embraces the
saga of the handcart emigrants - including even the disaster that
befell the Martin and Willie handcart companies in central Wyoming
in 1856 - as an educational, faith-inspiring experience for
thousands of youth each year. Moulton skillfully weaves together
scores of firsthand accounts from the journals, letters, diaries,
reminiscences, and autobiographies the handcart pioneers left
behind. Depth of research and unprecedented detail make this volume
an essential history of the Mormon handcart migration.
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