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From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The story begins: In the early sixties a trail led from the broad Missouri, swirling yellow and turgid between its green-groved borders, for miles and miles out upon the grassy Nebraska plains, turning westward over the undulating prairie, with its swales and billows and long, winding lines of cottonwoods, to a slow, vast heave of rising ground-Wyoming-where the herds of buffalo...
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Magic tree house. Original volume 18
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English
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The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians.
5) Never let go
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Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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First edition.
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English
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"Sacrificing dreams and risking family, five women follow their husbands to an isolated Minnesota settlement. Struggling to survive, they develop resilience but none are prepared for the challenges they face when starving bands of Santee Sioux (Dakota) take up arms against the whites during the 1862 Dakota Conflict. Laura Duley left Indiana as a newlywed. Promised a perfect life, she endured years on the hostile frontier and the loss of family only...
7) Sioux
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Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
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English
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This title introduces readers to the Sioux people. Text covers traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more. Also discussed is contact with Europeans, as well as how the people keep their culture alive today. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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HQN
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English
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Forced to abandon his beloved friend, Tess Meredith, by the brutal hardships plaguing his Sioux tribe, Raven Following seeks a new life in Chicago, until Tess also arrives in the city, now a determined suffragette willing to fight for her cause--and her love.
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Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
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Widescreen version ; twentieth anniversary [edition].
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English
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Sent to protect a US outpost on the desolate frontier, Lt. John Dunbar finds himself alone in the vast wilderness. Befriending the very people he's sent to protect the outpost from, the Sioux Indians, Dunbar slowly comes to revere those he once feared. But when the encroaching US Army threatens to overrun the Sioux, he is forced to make a choice, one that will forever change his destiny and that or a proud and defiant nation.
11) The lost wife
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Alfred A. Knopf
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First edition.
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English
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"Minnesota, 1862: As a woman fleeing from a dark and secret past, Sarah Wakefield leaves Rhode Island quietly and quickly under cover of night for the long journey to Minnesota where she has been advised there is good work to be had. She soon finds a husband who becomes a resident physician for a Sioux town there but the political backdrop of that moment is volatile: white settlers are breaking treaties, Native American land is shrinking, and mass...
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Pinnacle Books
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English
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"Falcon MacCallister never thought he'd wear army brass. But Colorado is about to join the Union--and the would-be state has just made him Lt. Colonel in its Home Guard. Then, before his military career can take off, Falcon loses one of his men and two deadly new Gatling guns to a murderous ambush. Falcon is going to get those Gatling guns back--before they kill the wrong people. Tracing the missing guns to Eastern Montana, Falcon teams up with a...
13) The Earth is all that lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the last stand of the Great Sioux Nation
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Mariner Books
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First edition.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: A magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Bighorn and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the Indian Wars, from the bestselling author of Rough Riders and Shot All to Hell. 560pp., 50K
14) Sioux
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English
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Easy-to read text and oversized photographs introduce readers to the Sioux and their traditions including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more.
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Pantheon Books
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"38 Nooses" details the events surrounding the 1862 uprising of the Dakota Indians led by Little Crow within the larger context of the Civil War, the history of the Dakota people, and the subsequent United States-Indian wars.
16) Sitting Bull
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Gareth Stevens Publishing
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English
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Learn about Native American Sitting Bull from birth until death.
"Sitting Bull is best known for his part in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. He continually resisted the US government's mandate that all Native Americans must move to reservations they set up. Sitting Bull became an important leader to his people, the Lakota, and a symbol to others who wished to resist the US laws as well. With an emphasis on the Native American experience, this volume...
17) Dakota
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Big Buddy Books
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English
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This title introduces readers to the Dakota people and covers traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more. Also discussed is contact with Europeans and American settlers, as well as how the people keep their culture alive today.
18) The Sioux
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Lerner
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English
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A chronological history of the Sioux from their origins to modern times.
20) Black Hills
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Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown and Co
Edition
First edition.
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English
Description
Haunted by Custer's ghost, and also by his ability to see into the memories and futures of legendary men like Sioux war-chief Crazy Horse, Paha Sapa plans to silence his ghost forever and reclaim his people's legacy--on the very day FDR comes to Mount Rushmore to dedicate the Jefferson face.
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