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Set in Colorado in the year 1864, Cheyenne Amber tells the tale of Boston-born Laura Cheney, who finds herself widowed and alone in the wilderness with her newborn son. When her baby is kidnapped, Laura turns to Deke Sheridan, a feared renegade raised by the Cheyenne. Laura is willing to risk life and limb to save her child, and Deke soon follows suit to prove himself to this intoxicating beauty.
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1998
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304 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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An Indian request in 1854 for 1,000 white brides to ensure peace is secretly approved by the U.S. government in this alternate-history novel. Their journey west is described by May Dodd, a high-society woman released from an asylum where she was incarcerated by her family for an affair.
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One thousand White women trilogy volume 1
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When May Dodd journeys west into the unknown in 1874, it's a far better fate than the life she leaves behind. Committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for loving a man beneath her station, May's only hope of freedom is a secret government program whereby women from the "civilized" become the brides of Cheyenne warriors. This is the story of May's breathtaking adventures: first a romance with a young Army captain; then marriage to the...
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Walt Longmire mysteries volume 18
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"What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty young Native boys perished in an 1896 boarding school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there the Northern Cheyenne refer to as the Éveohtsé-heómėse, the Taker of Souls? What if the only...
8) Hostiles
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2018.
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1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.
10) Windwalker
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2003
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Lying on his deathbed, the aging Cheyenne Warrior, Windwalker, tells his life's story to his small grandchildren. He recounts his years as a young brave, marriage to beautiful Tashina, the blessing of having twin sons born to them, and his anguish at having Tashina die and one of the babies stolen during a raid by Crow warriors.
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[2022]
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1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Lewis Gates, a bounty hunter haunted by the past, was hired to track down three escaped convicts in the Oxbow region of the Rockies. Their trail leads him to a secluded spot and signs of a struggle, but no bodies only a strange arrow shaft remains. Gates takes the arrow to an expert in Native American culture, Lillian Sloan, and together they set off in search of an impossible mystery a tribe they believe cannot exist, massacred over 100 years ago....
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2010
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325 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Matt Talbot was a scout with Sharp Grover and Bill Comstock at a parley with Cheyenne chief Bull Bear along the Solomon River in western Kansas. It was 1868, and the army was concerned about an uprising among the young braves. Comstock was so confident that the trio arrived unescorted. The chief would tell them nothing, but granted them safe conduct out of the camp - until the sentinels were replaced by a band of hostile braves who attacked them,...
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One thousand White women trilogy volume 1
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p2006
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12 sound discs (14 hr., 56 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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An Indian request in 1854 for 1,000 white brides to ensure peace is secretly approved by the U.S. government in this alternate-history novel. Their journey west is described by May Dodd, a high-society woman released from an asylum where she was incarcerated by her family for an affair.
14) Hell and back
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[2022]
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xiii, 336 pages ; 24 cm.
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"What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty, young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies--along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust--something...
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One thousand White women trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
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337 pages ; 24 cm
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"9 March 1876 My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of...
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One thousand White women trilogy volume 2
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9 March 1876. My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed, all our possessions burned, our friends butchered by the soldiers, our baby daughters gone, frozen to death on an ungodly trek across these rocky mountains. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the...
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One thousand White women trilogy volume 3
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"In 1873, a Cheyenne chief offers President Grant an exchange of one thousand horses for one thousand white women, who he intends to marry with his warriors and create a lasting peace. These women, "recruited" in penitentiaries and asylums, gradually integrate into the way of life of the Cheyenne. After the battle of Little Big Horn, some female survivors decide to take up arms against the United States. This ghost tribe of rebellious women will soon...
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One thousand White women trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
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385 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Strongheart is the final installment to the One Thousand White Women trilogy, a novel about fierce women who are full of heart and the power to survive. In 1873, a Cheyenne chief offers President Grant the opportunity to exchange one thousand horses for one thousand white women, in order to marry them with his warriors and create a lasting peace. These women, "recruited" by force in the penitentiaries and asylums of the country, gradually integrate...
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