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Thrilling Scenes Among the Indians (Expanded, Annotated)
Editor, soldier, Indian fighter, Indian supporter, and American consul in Spain, Thomas Newson lived a fascinating life. For thirty years, he was on the American frontier. He interacted with many Native Americans and in 1884 wrote this account of his life in the West.His stories bring Native Americans to life in the eyes of someone who respected, befriended, and fought with them as they struggled to maintain their centuries-old way of life and to protect their families from white encroachment.Newson also provides an account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, less than a decade after the event. His informant is someone who was there shortly after the battle and who also obtained Indian accounts of the battle.
The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane
Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have largely obscured the facts of her life. This lively, concise, and exhaustively researched biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine. Before Calamity Jane became a legend, she was Martha Canary, orphaned when she was only eleven years old. From a young age she traveled...
Adventures Among the Indians; Or, Scouting with Gen. Custer
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