The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize-winning New...
Great Plains
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Author:Egan, TimothySummary: -
Author:Rebus, AnnaSummary:Provides information on the Sioux Indians with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
- Author:Marshall, JosephSummary:
A gifted storyteller and historian and a member of the Sicunga Lakota Sioux, Joseph M. Marshall III, has dedicated his entire life to spiritual fulfillment and to teaching others the essence of Lakota wisdom. In The Lakota Way ,...
- Author:Rebus, AnnaSummary:
Provides information on the Blackfoot Indians with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
- Author:Wedel, WaldoSummary:
A review of the human prehistory of the North American plains, presented for the general reader as well as the archaeologist.
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Author:Paulsen, GarySummary:In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
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Author:Hogue, MichelSummary:Metis and the Medicine Line tells the remarkable story of the Plains Metis and the violent birth of the Canada/U.S. border.
- Author:Rozum, Molly P.Summary:
An exploration of modern regionalism and senses of place developing among generations of settler colonial society on North America's northern grasslands.
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Author:Wilson, GarrettSummary:"Gracefully written, fully and meticulously researched." -- Sharon Butala, author of The Perfection of the Morning. "Frontier Farewell offers new perspectives on everything from the transfer of Rupert's Land to Canada, the Manitoba...
- Author:McMurtry, LarrySummary:
McMurtry turns his attention to George A. Custer, a complex man who has captivated historians for over a century. From graduating last in his class at West Point to leading the ill-fated 7th Cavalry in the attack at Little Bighorn,...
- Author:Erdrich, LouiseSummary:
In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
- Author:Miller, SarahSummary:
In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of her family, for a new life in Kansas Indian Territory. Packing what they can carry in...
- Author:Black Elk, Neihardt, John G., Deloria, VineSummary:
A timeless and inspiring autobiographical account of the great religious and historical vision of an American Indian healer, Black Elk Speaks has become a revered spiritual classic for all peoples everywhere. Black Elk (1863-1950) was a...
- Author:Morgan, R. GraceSummary:
As one of North America's most unique ecologies, the Great Plains have fostered symbiotic relationships between humans and animals for millennia. Among these, Indigenous bonds to beavers, bison, and horses have been the subject of...
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Author:Dalgarno, KenSummary:There can be few places in the world where the visual impact of the landscape is as hauntingly captivating as the Badlands of the Northern Great Plains. Encompassing Alberta, Saskatchewan, North Dakota and Montana, these amazing regions...
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Author:Flores, DanSummary:America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild...
- Author:Stevenson, Robert LouisSummary:
The celebrated Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson arranged for his friend the art historian Sidney Colvin to select and organise the essays in this volume, many of which had originally appeared in 1888, though some date back to the...
