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Island in the Plains
Author: Edward Raventon
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
Published: 2003-06
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781555663261
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Islands in the Plains is required reading for anyone who wishes to learn the fascinating story behind the rugged exterior of the Black Hills.
Action at Beecher Island
Author: Dee Brown
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2012-10-23
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1453274243
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A gripping recreation of a notoriously bloody clash between US Army scouts and American Indian warriors, by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author. Historian Dee Brown dramatically recounts the nine-day siege between Plains tribes and Major James William Forsyth’s scouts. Based on historical sources, the novel is told from a variety of viewpoints, including that of Lieutenant Frederick Beecher, still wounded from the Civil War and charged with clearing out American Indian settlements to make way for the Kansas Pacific Railroad. Beecher is joined by General Sheridan and Major Forsyth, as well as the scouts—from seasoned frontiersmen to young boys—employed to take part in the perilous mission. On the other side are the famous American Indian players in the battle: Turkey Leg and Roman Nose. With this complex assortment of characters, Brown vividly recreates the 1868 siege, as well as the competing worldviews of life on the prairies. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
Buffalo Bill's Aerial Island
The Island of Beautiful Things
Buffalo Bill's Aerial Island, Or, The Mysteries of the Plains
The Hempstead Plains of Long Island
Island Prairie
Author: Betsy Gulotta
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9781576042656
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Islands on the Plains
Author: Marcel Kornfeld
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Scattered throughout the Great Plains are many isolated areas of varying size and ecology, quite distinct from the surrounding grasslands. Such spaces can be uplands like the Black Hills, low hills like the Nebraska Sand Hills, or linear areas such as shallow river valleys and deeply incised canyons. While the notion of "islands" is not a new one among ecologists, its application in Plains archaeology is. The contributors to this volume seek to illustrate the different ways that the spatial, structural, and temporal nature of islands conditioned the behavior and adaptation of past Plains peoples. This as a first step toward a more detailed analysis of habitat variation and its effects on Plains cultural dynamics and evolution. Although the emphasis is on ecology, several chapters also address social and ideological islands in the form of sacred sites and special hunting grounds.
Island in the Salish Sea
Author: Sheryl McFarlane
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2018-09-18
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1459813472
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This gorgeously illustrated picture book is a celebration of summer vacation and West Coast island life. Every day is different on Gran's island in the Salish Sea as granddaughter climbs big-leaf maples, eats blackberries, explores tide pools and sandstone caves and examines ancient middens and petroglyphs. She and Gran watch harbor seals sunning themselves and Gran's neighbor carving an eagle out of a piece of cedar while drinking fresh nettle tea. And on her way home, our young narrator sees a pod of orcas, breaching, tail lobbing and spy-hopping as she says goodbye to the island for another summer.
