Enlistment Record of Indian Scouts who served in one of the scout detachment's at Fort Clark, Texas. Seminole Negro-Indian Detachment Aug. 1872-Sept 1914,Lipan Scout Dec. 1878-Dec 1879,Lipan Nov. 1880-June 1881 View More...
This book was written to help finance and popularize the authors undertaking The North American Indians. Along with this monumental work, Indian Days of the Long Ago fell into obscurity. This book is not such a very technical explanation as an overall view of certain aspects of the ife and lore of the northern plains Indians.@ View More...
This book tells you about some of the Cherokee Indian's treasures, and other historical facts, history and legends of the Cherokees at Hightower, and other places, as well as a brief history of the white man, and the Franklin gold mines, 1809-1909. @ View More...
Tales that the Author, Mr. Applegate brings us from the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest relate to their early history or to their present-day doings and feelings, to the early history of Spaniards among them or to the intrusion of later comers from the white world, the substance of most of them and the telling of all of them make living folk-stories. 178 Pages. @ View More...
Powerful....The Trail of Tears is an unrelenting narrative, sometimes poetic and sometimes heartbreaking. Of Eastern America's prelude to wounded knee. A dreadful chapter in American History. The United States Congress passed a bill in 1830 for the forcible removal of those Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi and their resettlement in the West. Over the next twenty years, and on brutal forced migrations, thousands of Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminoles, Shawnees, Delawares, Senecas, and other nations perished from cold, hunger, and white men's diseases. @ View More...
221 pages. The motive in writing these historical articles is to preserve the history of the Kiowa People. These articles are largely limited to the time the Kiowas came to the area of the Wichita Mountains. View More...
Sam Houston with the Cherokees is more than an exciting adventure tale; it is a scholarly, thoroughly documented work. Proof of Houston's marriage to the Cherokee Diana Rogers is offered. The rumors and speculation over Houston's Indian wives and children are examined. The popular tale that during these years Houston "lay in the gutter of life" is refuted; in fact, the authors establish that Houston accomplished more during his "exile" than many men do in a lifetime. This book is also signed by the Authors. @ View More...
This book tells in part the story of the clash of three rival international ambitions: the claims of Spain to the Georgia country, the grand design of the French to link Louisiana and Canada by a chain of forts and trading posts and thus encircle the English colonies along the Atlantic seaboard, and the sturdy westward expansion of the English in the South. 197 pages. @ View More...
On June 25, 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry attacked a large Lakota Cheyenne village on the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory. He lost not only the battle but his life—and the lives of his entire cavalry. "Custer's Last Stand" was a spectacular defeat that shocked the country and grew quickly into a legend that has reverberated in our national consciousness to this day.Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry has long been fascinated by the "Boy General" and his rightful place in history. In Custer,he delivers an expansive, agile, and clear-eyed reassessment of th... View More...
Memoirs of Jesse A. Applegate and Lavinia Honeyman Porter who traveled the Overland Trail. Includes photographs of people, places, and maps of their journey westward. 402 pages, with a 7 page index. View More...
This book is about Jane Wilkinson Long. For decades Texas History was either made by her or revolved about her. Alone, and on an island with only her 4-year old daughter and a 12-year old servant girl, Kian, Jane gave birth to the first Anglo American born on Texas soil. Jane, who made the decision to remain alone and defend Fort Bolivar until her beloved husband returned from Mexico, knowing full well that her nearest neighbors, the Karankawa Indians, were cannibalistic. This is a great book for any and all to read. 203 pages. @ View More...
Immortalized by James Fenimore Cooper in The Last of the Mohicans, the Mohican Indians originated in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Frazier, a specialist in Native American studies with the Library of Congress, presents a detailed, scholarly account of these Indians; he hopes to make his readers aware of the contributions they made to American history. He covers the Mohicans' conversion to Christianity and the ramifications this had for them. He examines the various ways they interacted with the settlers, both Dutch and New Englanders, in trading, and as soldiers and victims of expansion and alc... View More...
A book known by many Montgomery County pioneers, ie: Black Dog, Little Beaver, Nopawalla, Strike Axe, Wyohake, Chetopah, Hard Rope, Watsanka and Melotumuni (Twelve O'Clock). @ View More...
This book is about the Chicksaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole Indian tribes. It includes information like where to look, research tips, brief history, censuses, maps, photos, and more. 110 pages, no index. View More...
