Plainsmen
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Sioux dawn: a novel of the Fetterman Massacre , Plainsmen volume 1
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Author
Series
Plainsmen volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
No one captures the glory, adventure and drama of the courageous men and women who tamed the American West like award-winning author Terry Johnston. His Plainsmen series brims with colorful characters, fierce battles and compelling historical lore.
Entrenched on a poorly sheltered island, many of Seamus Donegan's crack squad of Army scouts lie dead-and many more are dying. Led by Colonel George Forsyth, fifty seasoned plainsmen had combed the Colorado...
Author
Series
Plainsmen volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Black Sun
Terry C. Johnston
No one captures the glory, adventure and drama of the courageous men and women who tamped the American West like award-winning author Terry Johnston. His Plainsmen series brims with colorful characters, fierce battles and compelling historical lore.
Grueling winter gave way to bloody spring as Seamus Donegan and his fellow Army scouts rode west with the Kansas Pacific Railway. Led by the legendary "Buffalo" Bill Cody,...
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Series
Plainsmen volume 6
Description
Chief White Bear and his Kiowa tribe would accept no more broken promises from the white man, so they left the Indian Territory reservations and crossed the Red River to the south. But, heir last desperate attempt to regain the land of their ancestors meant dead white settlers, embattled soldiers, and shaken supply routes. General Sheridan's seasoned forced were now on the move to stem the Indian tide. And, crack Army Sergeant Seamus Donegan would...
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Series
Plainsmen volume 11
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
After a terrible summer of blood and fire, scout Seamus Donegan finally has reason to rejoice: his wife, Samantha, has given birth to his first son. But the time to celebrate new life is short ... for the old business of death continues. Phil Sheridan has gathered his officers at Fort Laramie for a war council to prepare the winter campaign. His objective: capture Crazy Horse, the elusive Sioux warrior chief whose exploits have put the U.S. cavalry...
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Plainsmen volume 13
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The U.S. Army's goal: wipe out the remnants of scattered, starving people on the frontier's Northern Plain. But before Colonel Nelson A. Miles, the Bear Coat, launched his Spring campaign into the heart of Indian country, the commander took one last stab at negotiations and called on a Cheyenne woman and the famous half-breed pony scout named Johnny Bruguier. Together, they traveled to the valley of the upper Rosebud River to urge the Sioux to surrender....
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Series
Plainsmen volume 14
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Cries from the Earth
Terry C. Johnston
By mid-1877, trouble in the Northwest is brewing like a foul broth. Ill will is growing between white settlers and the Non-Treaty bands of the Nez Perce. The American government is forcing the Indians from their homelands onto the reservation. Many go quietly, thinking more about their families than of the pride of their warriors. But for a few holdouts, there's no room for compromise. Their history, their...
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Plainsmen volume 16
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Turn the Stars Upside Down is the compelling and little-known story of Crazy Horse's surrender in 1877 only months after his last fight with the U.S. Army at Battle Butte, his futile attempts to find peace for his warrior heart among the reservation Indians, and his eventual undoing at the hands of his own Oglala people.
For all his life, this warrior has been a defender of the weak and helpless. But surrounded now on a tiny red island in a sea of...