Native Americana from I Cannot Live Without Books

Thieves' Road: The Black Hills Betrayal and Custer's Path to Little Bighorn by Terry Mort In the summer of 1874, Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer led an expedition of some one thousand troops and more than one hundred wagons into the Black Hills of South Dakota. This colorful narrative history tells the little-known story of this exploratory mission and reveals… Read more about this item

Tecumseh & Brock: The War of 1812 by James Laxer At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British Empire is engaged in a titanic war with Napoleonic France for global supremacy. The American Republic is quickly expanding its territory along the western frontier, while native peoples struggle to protect their lands from the relentless wave of new settlers. Bestselling author and… Read more about this item

The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman by Benita Eisler THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. George Catlin (1796 - 1872) has been called the "first artist of the West," as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of… Read more about this item

The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo, and the War for America by H.W. Brands In its history, the United States government fought many battles for control of the American continent, the longest being its war against the Native American tribes. In the years after the Civil War, when the construction of the transcontinental railroads made a unified nation a real possibility, pressure… Read more about this item

Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 17622, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten today, this act of brutality set… Read more about this item

Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America by David J. Silverman The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America's indigenous peoples -- a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks reframes our understanding of… Read more about this item

Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies in the Black Hawk War by John W. Hall In the spring of 1832, when the Indian warrior Black Hawk and a thousand followers marched into Illinois to reoccupy lands earlier ceded to American settlers, the U.S. Army turned to rival tribes for military support. Elements of the Menominee, Dakota, Potawatomi, and Ho Chunk tribes willingly allied… Read more about this item

Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War by Daniel J. Sharfstein Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most crucial task: helping millions of former slaves claim the rights of citizens. He… Read more about this item

Cheyenne Summer: The Battle of Beecher Island -- A History by Terry Mort In September 1868, the undermanned United States Army was struggling to address attacks by Cheyenne and Sioux warriors against the Kansas settlements, the stagecoach routes, and the transcontinental railroad. General Sheridan hired fifty frontiersmen and scouts to supplement the limited forces at his disposal. He placed them under… Read more about this item