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Pub. Date
1997
Description
"...At a time when lady photographers are supposed to take 'pretty' pictures, [Kate Burke] exposes the massacre of hundreds of Indian women, children, and old men at Wounded Knee Creek. In a place where respectable wives don't 'get familiar' with 'the natives,' Kate risks her life to document the women of the Sacred Sioux Quillworkers... And before she is finished shooting, Kate will take on the entire U.S. Seventh Calvary..."--Cover.
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn and goes on to center around three powerful men. Charles Eastman is a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor. Sitting Bull is the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, dignity and sacred land. Senator Henry Dawes is one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While...
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"In 1872, seventeen-year-old William O. Taylor, barely five feet tall, enlisted in the army at Troy, New York. Almost immediately he was assigned to the Seventh Cavalry. At 12:30 p.m. on the fateful day, June 25, 1876, Taylor's contingent, under the command of Major Marcus Reno, was told to move forward "at as rapid a gait as prudent and charge afterwards." At the same time, General George A. Custer and his force left the trail and moved right. Suddenly,...
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Series
Custer trails volume 11
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Account of the June 1-July 13, 1867 expedition of George Armstrong Custer and the 7th Cavalry.
11) Higher ground
Author
Series
Superstition gun trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A riveting depiction of what it must have been like to be fighting the Battle of the Big Horn, also known as Custer's Last Stand.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Was Frank Finkel a survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn? Koster presents evidence that he believes supports Finkel's claim to have been the Second Sergeant of C Company, and chronicles Finkel's escape, ordeals, and the subsequent years of his successful life.
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
"In the fall of 1999, a team of Associated Press investigative reporters broke the news that U.S. troops had killed a large group of South Korean refugees, mostly women and children, early in the Korean War. On the eve of that pivotal conflict's fiftieth anniversary, their reports brought to light a story that had been suppressed for decades. The story made headlines around the world and sparked an official investigation by the Pentagon that confirmed...