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Author: William W. Johnstone
Publisher: Pinnacle
ISBN: 0786036044
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THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY America’s most popular Western novelists continue their bold new series featuring Breckenridge Wallace, a big, strong, fierce kid fighting for a home in the towering Rocky Mountains.

Author: Richard Brighton
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 9781456752224
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Nevertheless, this spectacle would allow the frontiersman, who was going from
location to location, to make some money. When the frontiersman would be
recognized, he would simply use the excuse, “Oh that was my cousin. We look
alike,” or they would use other excuses with such a certainty that they would be
believed. Regardless of their suspicions, the party representatives would list their
names and use that list for a future return on their investment; and the
frontiersman would ...

Author: James Campbell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416591214
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Tomorrow I leave the river, but for today there is work to be done. Late yesterday
afternoon, Rick shot a moose. When the arrow hit, the moose thundered off,
crashing through the forest. We followed the blood trail and eventually found it a
quarter mile from where Rick stuck his arrow. He had punctured the moose's
kidney, so it didn't go far. Rick was excited. The moose was huge with an
immense symmetrical rack, nearly 74 inches across, Rick figured, admiring it as a
possible Pope ...

Author: James Buckner Barry
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803270138
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instructed to demand of those who were in authority that all the Indians be moved
across the Red River. The agents and their employees were mad and sullen and
would not talk with me, although one did inform me that the Indians were frenzied
and that I was in danger. They did permit my companion and myself to sleep on
our blankets spread on the floor of the council house, which was a log cabin.
When the agents refused to talk business, I turned all my conversation to Captain
 ...

Author: Allen W. Eckert
Publisher: Jesse Stuart Foundation
ISBN: 1931672814
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Eighteen years ago, when he was just fifteen, his entire family had been captured
by the French-led Indians who seized and burned Fort Granville on the Juniata
River of Pennsylvania near its junction with the Susque-hanna. His stepfather,
John Turner, had been tortured ... What it meant, he explained, was that their
blood became one and they were brothers and would vow to forever help and
protect one another at all times, regardless of risk. There weren't many people a
man could ...

Author: Robert A. Kittle
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806158395
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Most were hunter-gatherers who moved their villages from place to place in
pursuit of the seasonal food supply.17 But tribes along the Colorado River, the
New River, and the Alamo River planted crops that were irrigated by annual
floodwaters. In contrast to the docile ... “At the first shot he darted into my hut,
spouting so much blood at the mouth and from his temples that I had hardly time
to absolve him and help him to meet his end,” Serra wrote in a letter to a
colleague in Mexico City.

Author: Robert Marshall Utley
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803295506
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and routinely policing the reservation Paiutes.14 In 1862 a company marched
southward to Owen's River Valley to aid a squadron of cavalry from Los Angeles
in pacifying the Mono Paiutes, who had been tormented into hostility by white
settlers. After some blood had been spilled on both sides, the Indians subsided
into an uneasy complaisance, and from newly erected Camp Independence a
company of Californians kept watch on them for two years. ir> In 1864 and again
in 1865 ...

Author: Robert Beebe David
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the life and adventures of an Indian fighter, mail coach driver, miner, pioneer
cattleman, participant in the Powder river expedition, survivor of the Hay Field
fight, associate of Jim Bridger and Chief Washakie Robert Beebe David. short
distance, when they found themselves halted by the accurate aim of an Indian
who shot his arrows so swiftly and surely that they could not hope to continue
until he had been put out of action. "Let's charge him and get him," the soldier
called. "No," Finn ...

Author: Abner Blackburn
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In September 1844, Emmett led a company of about twenty-five families on a
strange odyssey up the Iowa River to a camp in modern Marshall County, "150
miles west of the settlements." After nearly starving, part of the company
journeyed ... with his blood, but left the future of his fledgling church an open
question. The Narrative My parents were born in ... been written over a previous
erasure. 1832 But the Indians had left a short time before 14 Frontiersman: Abner
Blackburn's Narrative.

Author: James Buckner Barry
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instructed to demand of those who were in authority that all the Indians be moved
across the Red River. The agents and their employees were mad and sullen and
would not talk with me, although one did inform me that the Indians were frenzied
and that I was in danger. They did permit my companion and myself to sleep on
our blankets spread on the floor of the council house, which was a log cabin.
When the agents refused to talk business, I turned all my conversation to Captain
 ...