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  • A Marker on Huff Creek

    A Marker on Huff Creek is a fictional account based on historical facts. The focal point is a small stone marker that commemorates an unsolved murder which took place in Jackson County, Indiana in 1892. The murder is tied to many events related in the story. The authors characterize the marker as a symbol of the Huff Creek Valley, and the Valley as a microcosm of the grand phenomenon of Manifest ... Read more

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  • Trail of Tears

    The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation

    by John Ehle ...
    A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, combined with his extensive, meticulous research, culminates in this moving tragedy rich with historical detail.The Cherokee are a proud, ancient civilization. For hundreds of years they believed themselves to be the "Principle People" ... Read more

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  • The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

    Today, a fraction of the Cherokee people remains in their traditional homeland in the southern Appalachians. Most Cherokees were forcibly relocated to eastern Oklahoma in the early nineteenth century. In 1830 the U.S. government shifted its policy from one of trying to assimilate American Indians to one of relocating them and proceeded to drive seventeen thousand Cherokee people west of the ... Read more

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  • David Crockett

    The Lion of the West

    "Vivid, Comprehensible . . . cuts through decades of mythmaking." —Texas MonthlyPopular culture transformed his memory into “Davy Crockett,” and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. In this surprising New York Times bestseller, historian Michael Wallis has cast a fresh look at the flesh-and-blood man behind one of the most celebrated figures in American history. More than a ... Read more

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  • The Ohio Frontier

    Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720–1830

    "A vivid panorama of the transitional years when Ohio evolved from a raw frontier territory to an established province of an ever-expanding nation." — BooklistNowhere on the American frontier was the clash of cultures more violent than on the Ohio frontier. First settled by migrating Native Americans about 1720 and later by white settlers, Ohio became the crucible which set indigenous and military ... Read more

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  • Hell on Wheels

    Wicked Towns Along the Union Pacific Railroad

    by Dick Kreck ...
    Overnight settlements, better known as "Hell on Wheels," sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opportunity not only for legitimate business but also for gamblers, land speculators, prostitutes, and thugs. Dick Kreck tells their stories along with the heroic individuals who managed, finally, to create permanent towns in the interior West. ... Read more

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  • The Dawn of Detroit

    A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits

    by Tiya Miles ...
    **Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeWinner of the American Book AwardWinner of the Merle Curti Social History AwardWinner of the James A. Rawley PrizeWinner of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction)Finalist for the John Hope Franklin PrizeFinalist for the Harriet Tubman PrizeFinalist for the Cundill History Prize**A New York Times Editor’s Choice selection**“If ... Read more

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  • The Long, Bitter Trail

    Andrew Jackson and the Indians

    Series series Hill and Wang Critical Issues
    An account of Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830, which relocated Eastern Indians to the Okalahoma Territory over the Trail of Tears, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs which was given control over their lives. ... Read more

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  • Lincoln's Bishop

    A President, A Priest, and the Fate of 300 Dakota Sioux Warriors

    A history of the Dakota War of 1862, an Episcopal bishop, and his campaign to protect the lives of the Dakota Sioux.It is hard to recall what powerful moral voices Protestant church leaders had in the formative years of the nation. Gustav Niebuhr travels back to the Minnesota frontier of 1862 when Dakota Sioux rose up against pioneering families and slaughtered hundreds. Citizens demanded mass ... Read more

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  • 38 Nooses

    Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End

    by Scott W. Berg ...
    In August 1862, after decades of broken treaties, increasing hardship, and relentless encroachment on their lands, a group of Dakota warriors convened a council at the tepee of their leader, Little Crow. Knowing the strength and resilience of the young American nation, Little Crow counseled caution, but anger won the day. Forced to either lead his warriors in a war he knew they could not win or ... Read more

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  • West Like Lightning

    The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express

    by Jim DeFelice ...
    The #1 New York Times–bestselling coauthor of American Sniper details the history of the nineteenth-century express mail service that spanned the American west.On the eve of the Civil War, three American businessmen launched an audacious plan to create a financial empire by transforming communications across the hostile territory between the nation's two coasts. In the process, they created one of ... Read more

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  • The Trail of Tears: A History Just for Kids

    by KidCaps ...
    The Trail of Tears is a name given to the forced relocation and movement of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.Written just for kids, you'll learn what led up to the event, what happened during it, what happened because of it, and most importantly, you will learn just what it was like to be a kid during this time period ... Read more

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