Mark Lee Gardner
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English
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Two months after the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in February 1898, Congress authorized President McKinley to recruit a volunteer army to drive the Spaniards from Cuba. From this army emerged the legendary "Rough Riders," a mounted regiment drawn from America's western territories and led by the indomitable Theodore Roosevelt. Its ranks included not only cowboys and other westerners, but several Ivy Leaguers and clubmen, many of them...
3) To hell on a fast horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the epic chase to justice in the Old West
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325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"To Hell on a Fast Horse" re-creates the thrilling manhunt for the Wild West's most iconic outlaw. It is also the first dual biography of the Kid and Garrett, each a larger-than-life figure who would not have become legendary without the other.
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309 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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Recounts the thrilling life of Jesse James, Frank James, the Younger brothers, and the most famous bank robbery of all time -- the Northfield raid -- which led to a two-week chase ending with the bloody final shootout on the Watonwan River.
6) The Earth is all that lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the last stand of the Great Sioux Nation
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xiv, 543 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (some color), map ; 24 cm
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English
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"A magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, revealing in groundbreaking new detail the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Big Horn and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars." --From book jacket.
Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull: Their names are iconic, their significance in American history undeniable. These two Lakota chiefs, one a fabled...