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House Made of Dawn, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969, tells the story of a young American Indian named Abel, home from a foreign war and caught between two worlds: one his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons and the harsh beauty of the land; the other of industrial America, a goading him into a compulsive cycle of dissipation and disgust.
3) Medicine man
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1980.
Language
English
Description
A thrilling double d western.
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English
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"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...
Author
Publisher
Five Star Western
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Four men's destinies are chained to the huge water wheels irrigating the great rancho of Don Alfredo Correon de Leon y Delgado, deep in Chihuahua. John Hardisty, a cheated prospector, Geoffrey Carruthers, a rather proper English rancher, the crazed Irishman, O'Meara, and Juanito Tomás, son of a powerful Comanche chief, work as slaves turning the wheels, each an innocent captured by Don Alfredo's private army. Hardisty and O'Meara are loners who are...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Daha-hens name in Kiowa means Man Without Medicine. Before his people were forced to follow the peace road and live on a reservation, Daha-hen was one of the great Kiowa warriors of the plains, fabled for his talent as a horse thief. But now Daha-hen is fifty-three and lives quietly on the edge of the reservation raising horses. When unscrupulous white men run off his herd, the former horse thief finds himself in pursuit of his own horses and ready...
11) Top soldier
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Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
William Lee Braden was no Secessionist, no slave owner. In fact, when the polls opened in Jacksboro, Texas on February 23, 1861, Braden rode twelve miles up Lost Creek from his small ranch not only to vote against Secession, but on his ballot, right next to his signature, he wrote "For the Union forever." But come the fall of 1861, William Lee Braden rode off to join his brother Jacob in Harrisburg to fight, not for the Confederacy, but rather to...
12) Warrior's blood
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Series
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
An authentically gritty portrayal of the Old West in which two warriors fight on opposite sides of a brutal guerrilla war.
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