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A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the American West
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Include books by the same authorThe Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Nathaniel Philbrick · 466 pages
The bestselling author of Mayflower sheds new light on one of the iconic stories of the American West Little Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the American imagination with unmatched bravery and spectacular defeat. Mythologized as Custer's Last Stand, the June 1876 battle has been equated with other famous last stands, from the Spartans' defeat at Thermopylae to Davy Crockett at the Alamo
Wilderness Empire
Allan W. Eckert · 653 pages
Maps on lining papers. A narrative account of the eighteenthcentury struggle of England and France in the Iroquois territory for dominance.
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
T.J. Stiles · 592 pages
From the Preface... I am telling [George Armstrong Custer's] story in a particular light, with a particular sense of context. The result, I hope, is not simply an addition to a familiar story--he was famous for this as well as for that--but something larger and more comprehensive. I want to explain why his celebrity, and notoriety, spanned both the Civil War and his years on the frontier, resti
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
Fred Anderson · 880 pages
In this engrossing narrative of the great military conflagration of the mid-eighteenth century, Fred Anderson transports us into the maelstrom of international rivalries. With the Seven Years' War, Great Britain decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean -- and in the process destroyed an American diplomatic system in which Native Americans had long played a central, balancing role
The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies
Alan Taylor · 620 pages
In this book, the author, a Pulitzer Prize winning historian tells the story of a war that redefined North America. During the early nineteenth century, Britons and Americans renewed their struggle over the legacy of the American Revolution. Soldiers, immigrants, settlers, and Indians fought in a northern borderland to determine the fate of a continent. Would revolutionary republicanism sweep the
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
Hampton Sides · 601 pages
Praise for Blood and Thunder"Kit Carson's role in the conquest of the Navajo during and after the Civil War remains one of the most dramatic and significant episodes in the history of the American West. Hampton Sides portrays Carson in the larger context of the conquest of the entire West, including his frequent and often lethal encounters with hostile Native Americans. Unusually, Sides gives fu
Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Evan S. Connell · 448 pages
Crazy Horse and Custer
Stephen E. Ambrose · 527 pages
On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 U.S. Army soldiers rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting to battle.The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer of the Seventh Cavalry. Both were men of aggression and suprem
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
Bob Drury, Tom Clavin · 414 pages
The great Sioux warrior-statesman Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms. At the peak of Red Cloud's powers, the Sioux could claim control of one-fifth of the contiguous United States and the loyalty of thousands of fierce fighters. But the fog of history has left Red Cloud strangely obscured
Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
Buddy Levy · 429 pages
In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures. "I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold." --Hernan CortesIt was a moment unique in human history, the face-to-face meeting between two men from civili
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
Peter Cozzens · 544 pages
The Killing of Crazy Horse
Thomas Powers · 580 pages
Investigates the enigmatic Native American figure, assessing critical battles attributed to his leadership within the context of the Great Sioux Wars, exploring the relationships between the Lakota Sioux and other tribes, and analyzing the subjugation of North Plains Native Americans.
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce
Kent Nerburn · 433 pages
Hidden in the shadow cast by the great western expeditions of Lewis and Clark lies another journey every bit as poignant, every bit as dramatic, and every bit as essential to an understanding of who we are as a nation -- the 1,800-mile journey made by Chief Joseph and eight hundred Nez Perce men, women, and children from their homelands in what is now eastern Oregon through the most difficult, mou
The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull
Robert M. Utley · 418 pages
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn · 702 pages
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, *A People's History of the United States* is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers.
Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas
Mari Sandoz · 428 pages
Presents a biography of Crazy Horse, one of the last Indian leaders to wage war against the wave of immigrants invading their lands.
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz · 320 pages
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
Chester Nez, Judith Schiess Avila · 320 pages
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann · 660 pages
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus's landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Bartolome de las Casas · 167 pages
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann · 339 pages
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon. After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker wr
Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America
Giles Milton · 376 pages
In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of Native Americans had made her their weroanza—a word that meant "big chief". The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favorite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought back a captive, Manteo, who caused a sensation in Elizabethan London. In 1587, Manteo was returned to his homela