wars

Depicts the post-war South and the Reconstruction period which failed to free the newly liberated blacks from white racism and describes the simultaneous migration and settling of the Old West which ultimately left thousands of Native Americans dispossessed and segregated. Includes color illustrations, maps, and photos and also presents a chronology, a timeline, a glossary, and an index.

A nonfictional account, from the Native American point of view, of Custer's attack on the Plains Indians under the leadership of Sitting Bull in 1876.

A collection of photographs and personal testimonies which help chronicle the turbulent recent history of Kosovo through the eyes of its ordinary people.

A biography of legendary Shawnee chieftain Tecumseh, providing information about every stage of his life, and focusing on his efforts to unite the diverse North American tribes in a stand against the encroaching United States.

Presents eyewitness recollections of Native Americans who participated in the Battle of Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876, the legendary clash between Indians and the U.S. Cavalry led by Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer; and includes maps, photogrpahs, reproductions, and drawings.

A biography of the Sioux warrior who led his warriors against Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Describes the establishment of outposts in the wilderness west of St. Louis through the efforts of John Colter, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Wild Bill Hickok, and other men of the 19th century.

In February 1861, the twelve-year-old son of Arizona rancher John Ward was kidnapped by Apaches. Ward followed their trail and reported the incident to patrols at Fort Buchanan, blaming a band of Chiricahuas led by the infamous warrior Cochise. What followed that precipitous encounter would ignite a Southwestern frontier war between the Chiricahuas and the US Army that would last twenty-five years. In the days following the initial melee, innocent passersby -- Apache, white, and Mexican -- would be taken as hostages on both sides, and almost all of them would be brutally slaughtered.

When his family is killed during an errant U.S. military operation in the Middle East, fifteen-year-old Jonas is sent to live with a foster family in America and struggles to adapt before revealing the heroics of a missing soldier who saved his life.