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Book Horse Raid

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  • Author : Paul Goble
  • Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 1937786250
  • Pages : 49 pages

Download or read book Horse Raid written by Paul Goble and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2014 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the tribes of the American plains in the Buffalo Days of the pre-reservation life, horse raiding was a chance for men to show their courage and bravery in battle. “No man can help another to be brave,” says grandfather to fourteen-year-old Lone Bull, “but through brave deeds you may become a leader one day.” Lone Bull wanted to be a warrior and he knew he could be victorious in a horse raid if only given the chance! But when Lone Bull’s father refuses to let his son and his best friend join the raid, what do the young boys do? They set off to follow the group with the help of grandfather! Will it all end in disaster? Master storyteller, Paul Goble, brings to life this exciting and timeless coming-of-age story of Lone Bull, a young Lakota boy eager to join the warriors on a horse raid against the Crow. This newly revised edition features digitally enhanced artwork, completely revised text, a brand new layout, and a fascinating foreword from world famous storyteller, Joseph Bruchac.

Book The Real Horse Soldiers

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  • Author : Timothy B. Smith
  • Publisher : Casemate Publishers
  • Release : 2020-02-08
  • ISBN : 1611214297
  • Pages : 443 pages

Download or read book The Real Horse Soldiers written by Timothy B. Smith and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This epic account is as thrilling and fast-paced as the raid itself and will quickly rival, if not surpass, Dee Brown’s Grierson’s Raid as the standard.” —Terrence J. Winschel, historian (ret.), Vicksburg National Military Park Winner, Operational/Battle History, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award Winner, Fletcher Pratt Literary Award, Civil War Round Table of New York There were other simultaneous operations to distract Confederate attention from the real threat posed by U. S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee. Benjamin Grierson’s operation, however, mainly conducted with two Illinois cavalry regiments, has become the most famous, and for good reason: For 16 days (April 17 to May 2) Grierson led Confederate pursuers on a high-stakes chase through the entire state of Mississippi, entering the northern border with Tennessee and exiting its southern border with Louisiana. Throughout, he displayed outstanding leadership and cunning, destroyed railroad tracks, burned trestles and bridges, freed slaves, and created as much damage and chaos as possible. Grierson’s Raid broke a vital Confederate rail line at Newton Station that supplied Vicksburg and, perhaps most importantly, consumed the attention of the Confederate high command. While Confederate Lt. Gen. John Pemberton at Vicksburg and other Southern leaders looked in the wrong directions, Grant moved his entire Army of the Tennessee across the Mississippi River below Vicksburg, spelling the doom of that city, the Confederate chances of holding the river, and perhaps the Confederacy itself. Based upon years of research and presented in gripping, fast-paced prose, Timothy B. Smith’s The Real Horse Soldiers captures the high drama and tension of the 1863 horse soldiers in a modern, comprehensive, academic study. Readers will find it fills a wide void in Civil War literature.

Book Horse Raid

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  • Author : Susan Korman
  • Publisher : Turtleback
  • Release : 1998-01
  • ISBN : 9780613515559
  • Pages : 31 pages

Download or read book Horse Raid written by Susan Korman and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1998-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While visiting the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History to see the Native Cultures of the Americas exhibit, Kevin travels back in time to an Arapaho Indian camp in the mid-1800s.

Book Wilson   s Raid

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  • Author : Russell W. Blount Jr.
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2018-02-26
  • ISBN : 1439664056
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Wilson s Raid written by Russell W. Blount Jr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relive the final days of the Civil War with this compelling account of Wilson's Raid told by memoirs of those who witnessed it. In the closing months of the Civil War, General James Wilson led a Union cavalry raid through Alabama and parts of Georgia. Wilson, the young, brash "boy general" of the Union, matched wits against Nathan Bedford Forrest, the South's legendary "wizard of the saddle." Wilson's Raiders swept through cities like Selma, Tuscaloosa and Montgomery, destroying the last remaining industrial production centers of the Confederacy along with any hopes of its survival. Forrest and his desperately outnumbered cavalry had no option but to try to stop the Union's advance. Join Russell Blount as he examines the eyewitness accounts and diaries chronicling this defining moment in America's bloodiest war.

Book Spirit Horse

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  • Author : Ned Ackerman
  • Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
  • Release : 2002-09-01
  • ISBN : 9780590397209
  • Pages : 167 pages

Download or read book Spirit Horse written by Ned Ackerman and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a Siksika boy living on the Plains during the 1770s becomes separated from a raiding party, he discovers the legendary spirit horse which he attempts to track down and tame. Reprint.

Book The Great Horse Raid

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  • Author : Charles Hackley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-04-01
  • ISBN : 9781484043325
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book The Great Horse Raid written by Charles Hackley and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History comes alive in The Great Horse Raid! Each chapter leads the reader into another adventure; deeper and further through a time of history only a few can so clearly and precisely describe. The author is historically accurate and exact in every detail. Each character, date, event and action did indeed take place. Only the conversations are enhanced and flavored with the speech of the time for our enjoyment and total absorption into this story. These pages truly validate the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction'. As you enjoy this tale, we are please to report, that no animals were harmed in the writing of this book. Aztec Publishers, Nevada

Book Crazy Horse

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  • Author : Kingsley M. Bray
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2011-11-19
  • ISBN : 0806183764
  • Pages : 532 pages

Download or read book Crazy Horse written by Kingsley M. Bray and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2011-11-19 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crazy Horse was as much feared by tribal foes as he was honored by allies. His war record was unmatched by any of his peers, and his rout of Custer at the Little Bighorn reverberates through history. Yet so much about him is unknown or steeped in legend. Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life corrects older, idealized accounts—and draws on a greater variety of sources than other recent biographies—to expose the real Crazy Horse: not the brash Sioux warrior we have come to expect but a modest, reflective man whose courage was anchored in Lakota piety. Kingsley M. Bray has plumbed interviews of Crazy Horse’s contemporaries and consulted modern Lakotas to fill in vital details of Crazy Horse’s inner and public life. Bray places Crazy Horse within the rich context of the nineteenth-century Lakota world. He reassesses the war chief’s achievements in numerous battles and retraces the tragic sequence of misunderstandings, betrayals, and misjudgments that led to his death. Bray also explores the private tragedies that marred Crazy Horse’s childhood and the network of relationships that shaped his adult life. To this day, Crazy Horse remains a compelling symbol of resistance for modern Lakotas. Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life is a singular achievement, scholarly and authoritative, offering a complete portrait of the man and a fuller understanding of his place in American Indian and United States history.

Book Lone Bull s Horse Raid

Download or read book Lone Bull s Horse Raid written by Dorothy Goble and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two young Sioux join in a raiding party to capture horses from some neighboring Crows.

Book Crazy Horse

Download or read book Crazy Horse written by Mike Sajna and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2001-07-11 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A treat . . . Insightful . . . Refreshing . . . A must-have . . .Not only is Sajna's work a valuable historical resource, it makesfor a compelling read as well."-American History "There has to be someone left to tell the tale." Little did the legendary war chief Crazy Horse know when he spokethese words in battle that it was his tale that people would betelling long after his death. Now, author Mike Sajna brings therenowned warrior back to life in this book about his epic struggleto save his culture and homeland amid the westward movement ofwhite settlers. Sajna follows Crazy Horse from his days as a youngboy chasing down wild horses to his later years as "one of thebravest of the brave," and includes new views on his role in theBattle of Little Big Horn and his eventual surrender and murder.Using an extensive collection of historic records, Crazy Horse isone of the most accurate accounts of the great Oglala chief,separating the facts from the many myths that have been passed downby other writers

Book The Blackfeet

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  • Author : John C. Ewers
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2012-11-21
  • ISBN : 0806170956
  • Pages : 387 pages

Download or read book The Blackfeet written by John C. Ewers and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blackfeet were the strongest military power on the northwestern plains in the historic buffalo days. For half a century up to 1805, they were almost constantly at war with the Shoshonis and came very close to exterminating that tribe. They aggressively asserted themselves against the Flatheads and the Kutenais, shoving them westward across the Rockies. They got on fairly well with English and Canadian traders during the heyday of the fur trade on the Saskatchewan River, but on the upper Missouri they took an early dislike to Americans, whom they called "Big Knives." American fur traders, such as Manuel Lisa, Pierre Menard, and Andrew Henry, were literally chased out of Montana by the Blackfeet.

Book The Evolution from Horse to Automobile

Download or read book The Evolution from Horse to Automobile written by Imes Chiu and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little work has been done to explicate the motivational factors of agency, particularly in cases where an artifact initially deemed ineffective or superfluous becomes an everyday necessity, such as the automobile at the turn of the twentieth century. Farmers saw it as a "devil wagon" but later adopted it for use as an all-around device and power source. What makes a social group change its position about a particular artifact? How did the devil wagon overcome its notoriety to become a prosaic mainstream device? These questions direct the research in this book. While they may have been asked before, author Imes Chiu (PhD, Cornell University) brings a different and refreshing approach to the problem of newness. Preexisting practices and work routines used as explanatory devices have something interesting to say about diffusion strategies and localization measures. This innovative study examines the conversion of users. To understand the motivating factors in mass adoption, the study focuses on perceptions and practices associated with horses and motorcars in three different settings during three different periods. All three cases begin with the motorcar in the periphery: all three end with it achieving ubiquity. This multiple-case design is used for the purpose of theoretical replication. Results in all three cases show that a contrived likeness to its competitor-the horse-contributed to the motorcar's success. The motorcar absorbed the technical, material, structural, and conceptual resources of the technology it displaced. This book, which includes several rare photographs, will be an important resource for those who wish to study the history of transportation and technology adaptation.

Book Carbine and Lance

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  • Author : Wilbur Sturtevant Nye
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 1983-09-01
  • ISBN : 9780806118567
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book Carbine and Lance written by Wilbur Sturtevant Nye and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1983-09-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fort Sill is in the heart of the old Kiowa-Comanche Indian country in southwestern Oklahoma. For the student of the American frontier, Fort Sill is the center of one of the most interesting, dramatic, and sustained series of conflicts known in the history of the West.

Book Maskepetoon

Download or read book Maskepetoon written by Hugh A. Dempsey and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2010 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the late 1860s, it may have seemed to the Rocky Mountain Cree that their world was falling apart. The buffalo were diminishing in great numbers, people were starving, gold miners were tramping through their territory, and the Blackfoot had become violent against everyone-Crees, Stoneys, Americans, fur traders and missionaries. They needed a strong, courageous leader, and they found him in Maskepetoon. Leading his people during these difficult times, Maskepetoon followed his own inclinations for peace, wise leadership and friendship. Yet if necessary he could kill with impunity, rule with an iron hand and show no mercy where he believed none should be shown. He transformed his people from woodland trappers to buffalo hunters and from woodsmen to prairie dwellers. He formed allegiances with missionaries and guided settlers through the Rockies. Hugh Dempsey's well-researched account of the legendary chief and his life includes valuable new insights from Cree people themselves, including descendants of Maskepetoon."--pub. desc.

Book The Kentucky Harness Horse

Download or read book The Kentucky Harness Horse written by Ken McCarr and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative book shows how the influence of Kentucky Standard breeding spread across the nation and finally around the world. Here is the story of the horses and farms, the men and women who made it possible. Rich with anecdote and founded on a unique store of learning, it will delight both the newcomer to the sport and the lifelong devotee.

Book Prairie Flowers

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  • Author : James Beardsley Hendryx
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 406 pages

Download or read book Prairie Flowers written by James Beardsley Hendryx and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Argosy

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book The Argosy written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Northwest Anthropological Research Notes

Download or read book Northwest Anthropological Research Notes written by Roderick Sprague and published by Northwest Anthropology. This book was released on with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern Plateau: An Ecological Analysis of Intergroup Relations, Angelo Anastasio Additional Notes on Sasquatch Foot Anatomy, Grover S. Krantz