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84) Great Plains
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Pub. Date
2001.
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With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains. A travelogue, a work of scholarship, and a western adventure, Great Plains takes us from the site of Sitting Bull?s cabin, to an abandoned house once terrorized by Bonnie and Clyde, to the scene of the murders chronicled in Truman Capote's In...
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Pub. Date
2007
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Without rain or topsoil, Anna Mae Phipps and her husband Harley struggle to provide for their two young children on their family farm. With another baby on the way, Harley sells his mules and travels a hundred miles to earn money building an elaborate WPA monument. But after only receiving Harley's first paycheck, Anna Mae grows increasingly desperate as months drag on without even a word from her husband.
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In Bring Back the Buffalo!, Ernest Callenbach portrays the history and present situation of bison, and explores their remarkable potential. Bison belong on the Plains. Legendary symbols of independence and self-reliance, they endure blizzards, survive without feeding, and need no human help to give birth. Unlike cattle, bison move dozens of miles a day as they graze, reducing impacts on grasses and streams. Vast stretches of the Plains, declining...
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A Bison book volume BB129
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These are Indians' stories, pictures of Indian life drawn by Indian artists, and showing this life from the Indian's point of view.
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Pub. Date
c1977
Description
The definitive history of the Great Plains, from the appearance of the first Europeans to the beginning of the twentieth century. Chronicles the arrival of the Spanish, French, and English explorers; the fur trade; the reciprocal impact of Indian and European culture; the Civil War; the cattle industry; the farmers and ranchers and the domestication of the wilderness.
92) Buffalo medicine
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Spanish bit saga volume 4
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The younger son of a legendary chief must make his own contribution to the People by learning the way of the buffalo from an ancient medicine man.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 4
Pub. Date
1992, c1953
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.
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Spanish bit saga volume 3
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A Spanish father searches for his long-lost son north of the Mexican colonies; his son, meanwhile, has become chief of his kidnapper's tribe. When the father falls into the hands of his son's tribe's greatest enemy, trouble brews.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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Imagine hunting bison that spread out as far as your eyes could see. Or maybe traveling by train or covered wagon to reach what is know as the Great Plains. Crack open this book, and learn about the people who made their lives on the Great Plains through the centuries right up until today.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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"Smith brings together a mix of travel and relationship, western history and family history, human love and animal love centering one the two-week journey she and her dog Bruno took in her car to visit her mother. Her meditations, triggered by place, explore how the past impinges on the present"--Provided by publisher.
"Dogs, like humans, have memories, instincts, fears, and loyalties. But, as far as we know, dogs do not get swept up in nostalgia,...
97) On the rez
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"On the Rez, by Ian Frazier, is about modern-day American Indians, especially the storied Oglala Sioux, who live now on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the plains and badlands of the American West. Crazy Horse, perhaps the greatest Indian war leader of the nineteenth century, and Black Elk, the holy man whose teachings became known around the world, were Oglala; Frazier visits their descendants on Pine Ridge Reservation - "the rez" - now one...