Download or read book Indian Territory Tales written by Eddy Cooke and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a special treat for the passengers to remove themselves from the coach and stretch their legs. Mr. Riddle greeted each of them in spite of the late hour. He gave a bear hug and a pat on the back to Marshal Drew to whom he inquired. Hello Jon how is everything at Boggy Depot. I hear you caught up with the Jabo outt and brought in two of the gang to Judge Parker. I was interested in the state of the other three. Rachel was curious and walked to the water bucket setting on the wooden structure that was built over the well. The station as a courtesy to the passengers had just drawn it full from the well. He motioned to her to take the handle of the gourd that had been fashioned into a dipper. Grasping it she plunged into the bucket and drank from the cool depths of the well. She dipped a second time partly to enable her to hear what Marshall Drews answer was to his question. I had rather been able to bring in the whole lot but it didnt work out that way. I had Choctaw light-horse Captain Josiah Legend to accompany me to the hideout I had located and a shoot-out occurred. They were holed up in a cave with a cow hide covering the entrance. With our repeating ries we separated ourselves and pinned them down in crossre. Light Horse Lieutenant Chockie Billy came later to help us and it was a very short time when they made a break for it. We fatally wounded all but the two I brought in. They knew it was over and threw up their hands to give up. The gun ght itself was short but the tracking is what took so long. A person could get lost in those winding Stair Mountains and never be seen again. I started down In Texas and got some leads and it was a matter of tracking their movements and that is about all of it. You did the Territory a favor in breaking up that gang of thieves and murderers. Those bad men in north Texas come over the Big Red and hide out and we have to deal with them.
Download or read book Tales of the Old Indian Territory and Essays on the Indian Condition written by John Milton Oskison and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the twentieth century, Indian Territory, which would eventually become the state of Oklahoma, was a multicultural space in which various Native tribes, European Americans, and African Americans were equally engaged in struggles to carve out meaningful lives in a harsh landscape. John Milton Oskison, born in the territory to a Cherokee mother and an immigrant English father, was brought up engaging in his Cherokee heritage, including its oral traditions, and appreciating the utilitarian value of an American education. Oskison left Indian Territory to attend college and went on to have a long career in New York City journalism, working for the New York Evening Post and Collier?s Magazine. He also wrote short stories and essays for newspapers and magazines, most of which were about contemporary life in Indian Territory and depicted a complex multicultural landscape of cowboys, farmers, outlaws, and families dealing with the consequences of multiple interacting cultures. Though Oskison was a well-known and prolific Cherokee writer, journalist, and activist, few of his works are known today. This first comprehensive collection of Oskison?s unpublished autobiography, short stories, autobiographical essays, and essays about life in Indian Territory at the turn of the twentieth century fills a significant void in the literature and thought of a critical time and place in the history of the United States.
Download or read book Tales of a Chahta Girl written by Samantha Lee and published by . This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of a Chahta Girl: Growing Up in Indian Territory is based on the true memories of a little girl named Annie that grew up in the late 1800's in Indian Territory. The west was still wild and the territory was young. It was not an easy place to grow up in. Her tales are that of sickness, war, and the cultural events that surrounded her.
Download or read book Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk tales written by George Bird Grinnell and published by New York : Forest and Stream. This book was released on 1889 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book West of the Dead Line written by Phil Truman and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dead Line, as it came to be called, was a railroad cutting across the middle of Indian Territory. It ran straight south from Caldwell, Kansas to Fort Reno, I.T., then down through the Cheyenne and Comanche and Kiowa lands, crossing the Red River into Bowie, Texas. It was a line on the map, a demarcation. West of it no law existed, only outlaws. On trails out there, the hunted posted notes on trees and posts to let lawmen know they'd be killed if they continued their pursuits west of the Dead Line.In the storied times of the American West, in what was called Indian Territory, no place came close to matching the dangers and mortality U.S.marshals faced doing their jobs. Those who survived became titans in the legends of the West, particularly one man called Bass Reeves. These stories are fiction; the encounters this lawman faced, and The Dead Line, were not.
Download or read book Tales of the Territory written by Clifford Gene Snyder and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian Legends Retold written by Elaine Goodale Eastman and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian legends that are animal fables are retold in more fragmented versions. They give the basis of Indian philosophy and understanding of how the child's mind is developed.
Download or read book Grandpa s Tale written by Gary L. Manning and published by . This book was released on 1914-01-21 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of the Indian written by George Bird Grinnell and published by Digital Scanning Inc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Written at the turn of the century by the founder of the National Audubon Society, Story of the Indian is an attempt to preserve the picturesque and original aspects of our western development when the figures of the real west were the Indian, the explorer, the soldier, the miner, the ranchman, the trapper and the railroad worker. As a famed explorer, naturalist and pioneer conservationist, George Bird Grinnell's knowledge of the west was gained by true-life experiences in ranching, mining and Indian life between Sonora and Vancouver, Texas and Dakota.
Download or read book Border Stories written by Terrel Shields and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Border Stories are stories of the history along the Arkansas-Indian Territory (Cherokee Nation) boundary from before 1890. Feuds, Utopian societies like the Harmonial Vegetarian Society, Civil War incidents, and post-war reparations and events are included. It includes stories of pre-war justice where the law was usually a group of local citizens rather than elected officials. The founding of Siloam Springs, horse racing, and the battle of Hico that wasn't also relate to histories rarely documented. Civil War stories include the killing of Jehu Chastain, General Blunt occupying and moving along the line road paralleling the state line, and the wartime history of Buck Brown, the partisan ranger, and the fate of his grist mill. The Fisher-Shannon feud, and its connection to Belle Starr is explored. The importance of grist mills in the region and a few names associated with them is explored. And a chapter is devoted to the way old bison (buffalo) trails were used by the native Americans and became the seed for the traces and trails which became our present-day road system. These are simple histories rarely known to even the residents of the area.
Download or read book The Last Wild West Frontier written by Stoney Hardcastle and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales of Old Fort Gibson written by Joseph Quayle Bristow and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian Tales written by Jamie De Angulo and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 1997-10-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by Ezra Pound as the "American Ovid" and renowned as a linguist and a self-described "amateur anthropologist," Jaime de Angulo drew on his forty years among the Pit River tribe of California to create the amalgam of fiction, folklore, tall tales, jokes, ceremonial ritual, and adventure that is Indian Tales. He first wrote these stories to entertain his children, borrowing freely from the worlds of the Pit, and also of the Miwok, Pomo, and Karok. Here are the adventures of Father Bear, Mother Antelope, the little boy Fox, and, of course, Old Man Coyote in a time when people and animals weren't so very far apart. The author's intent was not so much to rer anthropologically faithful translations-though they are here-as to create a magical world fueled by the power of storytelling while avoiding the dangers for the romantic and picturesque. True to the playful and imaginative spirit he portrays, de Angulo mischievously recommends to readers: "When you find yourself searching for some mechanical explanation, if you don't know the answer, invent one. When you pick out some inconsistency or marvelous improbability, satisfy your curiosity like the old Indian folk: 'Well, that's the way they tell that story. I didn't make it up!'"
Download or read book Blonde Indian written by Ernestine Hayes and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring, the bear returns to the forest, the glacier returns to its source, and the salmon returns to the fresh water where it was spawned. Drawing on the special relationship that the Native people of southeastern Alaska have always had with nature, Blonde Indian is a story about returning. Told in eloquent layers that blend Native stories and metaphor with social and spiritual journeys, this enchanting memoir traces the author’s life from her difficult childhood growing up in the Tlingit community, through her adulthood, during which she lived for some time in Seattle and San Francisco, and eventually to her return home. Neither fully Native American nor Euro-American, Hayes encounters a unique sense of alienation from both her Native community and the dominant culture. We witness her struggles alongside other Tlingit men and women—many of whom never left their Native community but wrestle with their own challenges, including unemployment, prejudice, alcoholism, and poverty. The author’s personal journey, the symbolic stories of contemporary Natives, and the tales and legends that have circulated among the Tlingit people for centuries are all woven together, making Blonde Indian much more than the story of one woman’s life. Filled with anecdotes, descriptions, and histories that are unique to the Tlingit community, this book is a document of cultural heritage, a tribute to the Alaskan landscape, and a moving testament to how going back—in nature and in life—allows movement forward.
Download or read book Tales From the West Classic Reprint written by Ad H. Gibson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tales From the West In the fall of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight a band of nearly five hundred Cheyenne Indians escaped from their reservation near Fort Reno, in Indian Territory. They had formed the bold design of returning to their old hunting grounds in Nebraska, from which they had been removed by the authority of the United States government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Prairie Tales written by Clifford Gene Snyder and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indian Battle written by Carol Davis and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Battle at Claremore Mound near Claremore, Oklahoma, occurred in 1817 between the Osage and Cherokee Indian tribes. The Osage were attacked by the Cherokee and the ensuing battle was devastating to the Osage Indians. In this exciting and informative tale, Running Brook, a young Indian maiden, tells the story of her great-great-great-grandfather, who survived the attack. The story was written with middle school children in mind; however, I believe that anyone might enjoy the story.
