Black Kettle

2010-02-01 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Thom Hatch
Release : 2010-02-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 470/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Black Kettle written by Thom Hatch. This book was released on 2010-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Compelling, Tragic Story of a Great Cheyenne Chief As white settlers poured into the west during the nineteenth century, many famous Indian chiefs fought to stop them, including Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Geronimo. But one great Cheyenne chief, Black Kettle, understood that the whites could not be stopped. To save his people, he worked unceasingly to establish peace and avoid bloodshed. Yet despite his heroic efforts, the Cheyennes were repeatedly betrayed and would become the victims of two notorious massacres, the second of which cost Black Kettle his life. In this first biography of black Kettle, historian Thom Hatch at last gives us the full story of this illustrious Native American leader, offering an unforgettable portrait of a chief who sought peace but found war. Praise For Thom Hatch The Blue, the Gray, and the Red Clear and even-handed. . . . This popular history recounts grim, bloody, lesser-known events of the Civil War. . . . The slaughter of Black Kettle's Cheyennes at Sand Creek . . . forms a devastating chapter. -Publishers Weekly The Custer Companion Highly recommended . . . a reliable and impartial guide to the subject and literature. -Library Journal Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn A work that is readable by itself, meticulously researched and clearly written. -The Tulsa World

Custer, Black Kettle, and the Fight on the Washita

2002 History

Author : Charles J. Brill
Release : 2002
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 161/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Custer, Black Kettle, and the Fight on the Washita written by Charles J. Brill. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Cheyenne and Arapaho accounts, Charles J. Brill tells the story of General George Armstrong Custer’s winter campaign on the southern plains in 1868-69, including his attack in Black Kettle’s village on the snowy backs of the Washita River. Brill’s searing account details the ruthlessness of the U.S. Army’s efforts to punish southern plains tribes for what they considered incessant raiding and depredation. Brill provides the Indian point of view as he follows Custer into a battle that remains controversial to the present day. In a new foreword to this edition, Mark L. Gardner discusses the significance of Brill’s history-placing it in context with other Custer and Indian Wars studies-and its Value to scholars and general readers today. Gardner also provides an overview of the career of Oklahoma journalist Charles J. Brill, much of whose life has remained a mystery until now.

Black Kettle and Full Moon

2004-09-01 History

Author : Geoffrey Blainey
Release : 2004-09-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 276/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Black Kettle and Full Moon written by Geoffrey Blainey. This book was released on 2004-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bestselling Black Kettle and Full Moon, master storyteller Geoffrey Blainey takes us on another absorbing journey – a guided tour of a vanished Australia. Covering the years from the first gold rush to World War I. Blainey paints a fascinating picture of how our forebears lived – in the outback, in towns and cities, at sea and on land. He looks at all aspects of daily life, from billycans to brass bands, from ice-making to etiquette, from pipes to pubs. The engaging text is further brought alive by an evocative selection of contemporary illustrations by artists such as Julian Ashton.This is Geoffrey Blainey doing what he does best bringing to life for the modern reader the sighs and sounds and smells of another time.

Black Kettle

2016-06-14 Fiction

Author : Jason Leclerc
Release : 2016-06-14
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 882/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Black Kettle written by Jason Leclerc. This book was released on 2016-06-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picking up where the fragmented narrative of Momentitiousness left off, Black Kettle explores the many manifestations of hope and deceit in the human experience. This is a novella collection--sweet, sensual, sadistic, and sullen--where independently complete stories burst forth with playful vigor, featuring heroes and antiheroes alike. Using the true story of Black Kettle--a peaceful Cheyenne Indian chief, who was gruesomely slaughtered in the 1860s--as a metaphorical backdrop, the text builds on the ambivalence inherent in hypocrisy. More than blood and guts, sex and postapocalyptical musing, Black Kettle derives its power from an understanding of both the human mind and the human soul. In the novella Black Kettle, witness the moments immediately preceding, during, and after two galactic earth-shattering events. In Trayvon, observe young men as they discover the shifting tangents connected by sexuality, love, and family. Finally, in The Nola Trilogy, watch carnal pleasure morph into sentimentality, heartbreak, and eventual rebirth.

Black Elk Speaks

1996 Drama

Author : John G. Neihardt
Release : 1996
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 153/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Black Elk Speaks written by John G. Neihardt. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Black Elk Speaks is the story of the Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during the momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk met the distinguished poet, writer, and critic John G. Neihardt (1881-1973) in 1930 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and chose Neihardt to tell his story. Neihardt understood and conveyed Black Elk's experiences in this powerful and inspirational message for all humankind." "This new edition features two additional essays by John G. Neihardt that further illuminate his experience with Black Elk; an essay by Alexis Petri, great-granddaughter of John G. Neihardt, that celebrates Neihardt's remarkable accomplishments; and a look at the legacy of the special relationship between Neihardt and Black Elk, written by Lori Utecht, editor of Knowledge and Opinion: Essays and Literary Criticism of John G. Neihardt."--BOOK JACKET.

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