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Civilization of the American Indian volume 74
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Traces the history, customs and ceremonies of the Shoshoni Indians of Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and California, from their origins as a peaceful tribe to their conquest and forced acculturation.
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A superb study of the Bison in folklore and fact that is also an account of western expansion and a history of the Plains Indians."-
The magnificent beast that once roamed from Alaska to the Carolinas "in numbers numberless" is superbly memorialized in this full-scale study, which begins with his genesis in the Ice Age, traces his evolution and natural history, observes his patterns of behavior, and records his life-and-death relationship with three...
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Under orders from General Sheridan, Captain W. P. Clark spent over six years among the Plains Indians and other tribes studying their sign language. In addition to an alphabetical cataloguing of signs, Clark gives valuable background information on many tribes and their history and customs. Considered the classic of its field, this book provides, entirely in prose form, how to speak the language entirely through sign language, without one diagram...
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A history of this historic avenue of Westward emigration, from the first explorations through the Indian Wars. Over this route the Mormons made their lonely migration to the Great Salt Lake Valley. Also there were expeditions by Fremont, Stansbury, Lander. A final chapter describes the building of the transcontinental railroad.
18) Old Jules
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First published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz's masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of "the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it was assumed, of course, that I was asleep in bed. So it was that I heard the accounts of the hunts," Sandoz recalls. "Of the fights with the cattlemen and the sheepmen, of the tragic scarcity of women, when a man had to 'marry anything
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