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  • KILLDEER MOUNTAIN
    DEE BROWN
    A reporter investigates the truth behind a controversial US Army officer's life and death in this novel from the #1 New York Times –bestselling author. It is 1866, and Sam Morrison, reporter for the St. Louis Herald, is aboard a steamer bound for Fort Standish off the coast of Massachusetts, determined to solve a mystery. The fort is about to be renamed in honor of Charles Rawl...

    $119.00

  • WHEN THE CENTURY WAS YOUNG
    DEE BROWN
    An insightful and heartwarming memoir by one of twentieth-century America's most celebrated frontier writers and a #1 New York Times –bestselling author. Dee Brown's fascinating memoir describes a writer's evolution—and a time when catching rides on trains or seeing the landing of a Curtiss Jenny airplane were simple and profound pleasures. Brown traces his upbringing in Arkans...

    $200.00

  • THE YEAR OF THE CENTURY, 1876
    DEE BROWN
    An in-depth exploration of a momentous year in American history from the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee . In 1876, America was eager to celebrate its centenary but questioned what might lie ahead. The American Republic had grown to four times its original population, and was in the midst of enormous changes. Industrialization was booming,...

    $251.00

  • WONDROUS TIMES ON THE FRONTIER
    DEE BROWN
    A lively history of the nineteenth-century American West from the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee . "Glorious . . . Do not miss a page." — Rocky Mountain News Frontier life, Dee Brown writes, "was hard, unpleasant most of the time," and "lacking in almost all amenities or creature comforts." And yet, tall tales were the genre of the day, a...

    $251.00

  • BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE
    DEE BROWN
    The #1 New York Times bestseller that awakened the world to the destruction of American Indians in the nineteenth-century West. "Strongly and ardently written." ― The New Yorker First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontie...

    $249.00

  • CREEK MARY'S BLOOD
    DEE BROWN
    The New York Times –bestselling saga of Creek Indian Mary Musgrove and her descendants, whose lives parallel the American story through two centuries. "A splendid, beautiful and heartbreaking story." —Howard Fast, New York Times –bestselling author In Creek Mary's Blood, Dee Brown fictionalizes the astonishing true story of Mary Musgrove—born in 1700 to a Creek tribal chief—and...

    $251.00

  • ACTION AT BEECHER ISLAND
    DEE BROWN
    A gripping recreation of a notoriously bloody clash between US Army scouts and American Indian warriors, by the #1 New York Times –bestselling author. Historian Dee Brown dramatically recounts the nine-day siege between Plains tribes and Major James William Forsyth's scouts. Based on historical sources, the novel is told from a variety of viewpoints, including that of Lieutenan...

    $119.00

  • THE BOLD CAVALIERS
    DEE BROWN
    A Civil War history of the Confederate cavalrymen, Morgan's Raiders, by the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee . In this vibrant and thoroughly researched Civil War study, Dee Brown tells the story of Morgan's Raiders, the Kentucky cavalrymen famed and feared for their attacks on the North. In 1861, Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan and his ...

    $200.00

  • CAVALRY SCOUT
    DEE BROWN
    A Western saga of honor amid the nineteenth-century Indian Wars from the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. "I wished I was back in Texas and had never left there to end up scouting in such godforsaken country for an army dressed in blue." Such are the sentiments of John Singleterry as this gripping tale begins in the snowy wilderness. Singl...

    $251.00

  • CONSPIRACY OF KNAVES
    DEE BROWN
    The #1 New York Times –bestselling author's captivating novel based on the true Civil War story of Chicago's Camp Douglas Conspiracy. Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, turns to the Civil War for this rollicking tale of romance and intrigue. Conspiracy of Knaves is based on the undercover scheme known as the Chicago Conspiracy, a plan by which Confederate agent...

    $119.00

  • THE FETTERMAN MASSACRE
    DEE BROWN
    "One of the best studies that has been made of any sector of the Indian wars" from the #1 New York Times –bestselling author ( Chicago Tribune ). This dark, unflinching, and fascinating book is acclaimed historian Dee Brown's riveting account of events leading up to the Battle of the Hundred Slain—the devastating 1866 conflict that pitted Lakota, Arapaho, and Northern Cheyenne ...

    $229.00

  • THE GENTLE TAMERS
    DEE BROWN
    A fascinating history of women on America's western frontier by the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee . Popular culture has taught us to picture the Old West as a land of men, whether it's the lone hero on horseback or crowds of card players in a rough-and-tumble saloon. But the taming of the frontier involved plenty of women, too—and this b...

    $251.00

  • THE GIRL FROM FORT WICKED
    DEE BROWN
    A post–Civil War adventure of love, money, and determination from the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee . Captain Westcott receives the news that a wagon train has been raided. Two officers have been wounded and four civilians killed—among the dead is the woman who was traveling to the western frontier to become his wife. Authorities believe...

    $119.00

  • GRIERSON'S RAID
    DEE BROWN
    The improbable Civil War raid that led to the Siege of Vicksburg, recounted by the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee . For two weeks in the spring of 1862, Colonel Benjamin Grierson and 1,700 Union cavalry troopers conducted a raid from Tennessee to Louisiana. It was intended to divert Confederate attention from Ulysses S. Grant's army cross...

    $251.00

  • HEAR THAT LONESOME WHISTLE BLOW
    DEE BROWN
    "A fascinating story" of the railways that linked America from the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ( Washington Post ). Hear that Lonesome Whistle Blow unspools the history of the beginnings of the American railroad system. By the mid-nineteenth century, settlers in Missouri and California were separated by a vast landscape that dwarfed an...

    $251.00

  • THE GALVANIZED YANKEES
    DEE BROWN
    The little-known true Civil War story of the Confederate soldiers who served in the Union Army by the #1 New York Times –bestselling author. Historian Dee Brown uncovers an exciting episode in American history: During the Civil War, a group of Confederate soldiers opted to assist the Union Army rather than endure the grim conditions of POW camps. Regiments containing former Con...

    $229.00

  • THE NATIVE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
    DEE BROWN
    Three powerful tales from the acclaimed chronicler of the American West—including the #1 New York Times bestseller, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee . Two profoundly moving, candid histories and a powerful novel illuminate important aspects of the Native American story. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: The #1 New York Times bestseller that awakened the world to the destruction of Am...

    $329.00

  • DEE BROWN ON THE CIVIL WAR
    DEE BROWN
    Three true tales of Civil War combat, as recounted by the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee . The acclaimed historian of the American West turns his attention to the country's bloody civil conflict, chronicling the exploits of extraordinary soldiers who served in unexpected ways at a pivotal moment in the nation's history. Grierson's Raid: T...

    $329.00

  • THE WAY TO BRIGHT STAR
    DEE BROWN
    Ben Butterfield, ex-circus performer, is living out his days in a small backwater town. He spends much of his time dwelling on the past, pondering his glory days with the circus, and his first grand adventure—an odyssey across Missouri and Illinois to Bright Star, Indiana, during the Civil War. It was a journey that laid the groundwork for the man he would become, and on which ...

    $274.00

  • THE BOLD CAVALIERS
    DEE BROWN
    An “exciting” Civil War history of the Confederate cavalrymen, Morgan’s Raiders, by the New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Kirkus Reviews). In this vibrant and thoroughly researched Civil War study, Dee Brown tells the story of Morgan’s Raiders, the Kentucky cavalrymen famed and feared for their attacks on the North. In 1861, Brigadier General J...

    $119.00