The 8 books on this stack
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Evan S. Connell 1984
Why it's on the stack
You end up rooting for the wrong people · you'll want to talk it over with someone
It shares this with 3 more books on this stack
Son of the Morning Star is the nonfiction account of General Custer from the great American novelist Evan S. Connell.
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Peter Cozzens 2016
Why it's on the stack
A big story that sweeps you along · it's an essay
It shares this with 4 more books on this stack
By using original research and first-hand sources from both sides, Cozzens illuminates the encroachment experienced by the tribes and the tribal conflicts over whether to fight or make peace, and…
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Dee Alexander Brown 1971 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
Fierce and defiant · it leaves you shaken
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Stephen E. Ambrose 1996
Why it's on the stack
A big story that sweeps you along · it's an essay
It shares this with 4 more books on this stack
Ambrose follows the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Thomas Jefferson's hope of finding a waterway to the Pacific, through the heart-stopping moments of the actual trip, to Lewis' lonely demise on the…
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Bob Drury 2013
Why it's on the stack
It tells it straight · it's an essay
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
Drawing on a wealth of evidence, including Red Cloud's biography, which was lost for nearly a hundred years, this never-before-told story of the great Oglala Sioux chief - the only Plains Indian to…
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David Grann 2017 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It tells it straight · a mystery you want to solve
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
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Hampton Sides 2006
Why it's on the stack
A big story that sweeps you along · it's an essay
It shares this with 4 more books on this stack
Between 1846, when President James K. Polk declared war on Mexico, and 1865, when the South was defeated in the civil war, the United States invaded and conquered the West, creating a mighty nation…
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S. C. Gwynne 2010 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
You end up rooting for the wrong people · it's an essay
It shares this with 3 more books on this stack
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West…