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Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The author separates truth from legend, and offers some ideas on what eventually happened to the strong and fascinating woman known to history as Sacagawea--the native American who made it possible for Lewis and Clark to explore America's then-uncharted West.
Publisher
KUED
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Long before Spanish conquistadors crossed the landscape, before trappers followed the rivers and streams, long before pioneering settlements dotted this region, before anyone else would try to write their history, five principle nations of indigenous people called the Great Basin area - now known as Utah - their home. Join KUED as we step into the extraordinary world of Utah's five tribes in five half-hour documentaries.
26) Abby's crossing
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her young son disappears following an Indian attack, young Mormon widow Abby Butterfield disregards propriety and turns not to her fiancé for help, but to Scooter, the leader of a group of rough frontiersman. In the face of unimaginable odds, the pair embarks on a quest to find Abby's son, a journey that will test their courage and faith as never before.
27) Devil's doorway
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Lance Poole, a Shoshone Indian, returns to his home in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, having won the Congressional Medal of Honor for his service in the Civil War. Despite his honorable war record, Lance is shunned by the white townspeople, who bear a grudge against him and his father because of their hold on the richest land in the region.
28) Wind River
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Film based on the true story of Nick Wilson, a young white settler who is accepted as part of the Shoshone Indian tribe and becomes an original Pony Express rider. When a Shoshone warrior "kidnaps" Nick and brings him back to the tribe, Nick learns how to become a warrior himself. But when a gang of settlers, including his brother, comes looking for him, Nick has to face the toughest decision of his life. Return to his real family or stay with the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When a knock on the door in the middle of the night wakes Sharon, she's wholly unprepared for the horrifying news: her father has been the victim of a vicious, racially-motivated attack. A nationally recognized Shoshone artist, Elwood had been visiting Sharon for the holidays, browsing for gifts in San Francisco's exclusive Marina district when he was set upon by a mob of angry young men. Now he lies in a coma, hovering between life and death. With...
34) The far horizons
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The adventures of Lewis and Clark and the Shoshoni Indian girl Sacajawea who served as their guide.
Author
Series
Publisher
Portable Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"What did 33 men in the 1800s need to find their way through the wilderness on a trip across America? They needed a woman--and they found one in Sacagawea, the Native American teenage mother who helped the Lewis and Clark expedition survive. She and her baby braved floods, hunger, storms, and snakes to help the expedition that opened the West. Sacagawea: Courageous Trailblazer! tells the life story of this amazing pioneer who endured hardship in her...
36) Eye of the wolf
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a psychotic killer stalks the Wind River Reservation, murdering three Shoshone Indians and posing their bodies on a historical battlefield, Father John O'Malley and Vicky Holden investigate to uncover the motives behind the killings.
37) The crossing
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
In 1805, Sacagawea, a woman of the Shoshoni tribe, helps Meriwether Lewis and William Clark find a passage to the West Coast, in this story told through the eyes of the baby boy on Sacagawea's back.
38) Rocky mountain
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
In 1865, Robert E. Lee, in a last-ditch bid to turn the tide of the Civil War, wants the West. Lafe Barstow's task is to get it. He leads a band of Confederates to California to enlist insurrectionists. But another war comes to a head in the West. Marauding Shoshones may prove to be an even fiercer foe than the Union Army.
Author
Publisher
Overlook
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Stone Heart is a gripping retelling of the story of American legend Sacajawea, the young Shoshoni woman who traveled with Lewis and Clark on their expedition to the West. Presented in Sacajawea's own voice juxtaposed with excerpts from Lewis and Clark's diaries, it is a work of moving and illuminating fiction cast from a famed piece of history that has long been masked by myth. Lewis and Clark recorded the external journey, its physical challenges...
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