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Best of Dee Brown's West :

by Brown, Dee,
Additional authors: Banash, Stan -- 1940- -- Ed.
Published by : Clear Light Publishers, (Santa Fe, N.M. :) Physical details: xvii, 366 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. ISBN:0940666766 (cloth); 0940666774 (pbk.). Year: 1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The early frontier. The pirates of the Ohio --
The great adventure --
Intrigue on the Natchez Trace --
The Trail of Tears --
Spoils and scandal. Along the Santa Fe Trail --
Brides by the boatload --
The Belknap scandal --
Heroes, heroines, and outlaws. Jim Bridger --
A girl with the Donner Pass Party --
Ely S. Parker : "one real American" --
The ordeal of Surgeon Tappan --
How Standing Bear became a person --
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid --
Seeds of change. Story of the Plains Indians --
The day of the buffalo --
Day of the longhorns --
The Pony Express --
The settlement of the Great Plains --
Final battles. In pursuit of revenge : the Sioux Uprising of 1862 --
Galvanized Yankees --
Beecher's Island --
Geronimo --
The ghost dance and the Battle of Wounded Knee.

A collection of articles tracing the history of the Western frontier from early settlements to the Battle of Wounded Knee.

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