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Magic tree house. Original series volume 18
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IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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#18 The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains, where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians.
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IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 23
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The bestselling author of "Mayflower" sheds new light on one of the iconic stories of the American West, reminding readers that the Battle of the Little Bighorn was also, even in victory, the last stand for the Sioux and Cheyenne Indian nations.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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The rare letters Tell Sackett received always had trouble inside. And the terse note from his cousin Logan is no exception. Logan faces starvation or a hanging if Tell can’t drive a herd of cattle from Kansas to British Columbia before winter. To get to Logan, he must brave prairie fires, buffalo stampedes, and Sioux war parties. But worse trouble waits, for a mysterious enemy shadows Sackett’s every move across the Dakotas and the Canadian Rockies....
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Kent Nerburn draws the reader deep into the world of an Indian elder known only as Dan. It's a world of Indian towns, white roadside cafes, and abandoned roads that swirl with the memories of the Ghost Dance and Sitting Bull. Readers meet vivid characters like Jumbo, a 400-pound mechanic, and Annie, an 80-year-old Lakota woman living in a log cabin. Threading through the book is the story of two men struggling to find a common voice. Neither Wolf...
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After fleeing North Dakota and the now defunct Wild West Show, Cassie Lockwood and her companions have finally found the hidden valley in South Dakota where her father had dreamed of putting down roots. But to her dismay, she discovers a ranch already built on her land. Cassie's arrival surprises Mavis Engstrom and forces her to reveal secrets she's kept hidden for years. Her son Ransom is suspicious of Cassie and questions the validity of her claim...
15) Black Hills
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In June of 1876, amid the chaos and bloodshed of the Little Big Horn battlefield, a young Sioux boy impulsively decides to show his courage by harmlessly "counting coup" on a dying soldier. But when he lays hands on General George Armstrong Custer precisely at the instant of the general's death, eleven-year-old Paha Sapa, whose name means "Black Hills," can't know that their brief contact will result in years of uncanny connection. For at that moment...
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[2005]
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The trial of Plenty Horses is now largely forgotten, a piece of America's past that constitutes something of a dark secret from a time when the hammer of history was forging the modern era. In the Shadow of Wounded Knee shows America at the instant it was shifting from a wild frontier country into a modern nation and how the cost of building America was paid not just in human lives but with the sacrifice of human hopes and dreams and the future of...
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IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 27
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. For this elegant thirtieth anniversary hardcover edition, Brown has contributed an incisive...
19) Sitting Bull
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IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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This is a brief biography of the famous leader of the Lakota Sioux who led his people to victory against the United States Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn.