Plainsmen
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Sioux dawn: a novel of the Fetterman Massacre , Plainsmen volume 1
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Red Cloud's revenge: showdown on the Northern Plains, 1867 , Plainsmen volume 2
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Plainsmen volume 3
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English
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No one captures the glory, adventure and drama of the courageous men and women who tamed the American West like award-winning author Terry Johnston. His Plainsmen series brims with colorful characters, fierce battles and compelling historical lore.
Entrenched on a poorly sheltered island, many of Seamus Donegan's crack squad of Army scouts lie dead-and many more are dying. Led by Colonel George Forsyth, fifty seasoned plainsmen had combed the Colorado...
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Plainsmen volume 4
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English
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Seamus Donegan and his fellow Army scouts, led by the legendary "Buffalo" Bill Cody, fight for their lives in the brutal Battle of Summit Springs in 1869.
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Plainsmen volume 5
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English
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Sergeant Seamus Donegan, tracking his uncle Ian O'Rourke, arrives at Tule Lake just in time to be caught up in the war between the Army and the Modoc Indians.
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Plainsmen volume 6
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English
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Chief White Bear and his Kiowa tribe would accept no more broken promises from the white man, so they left the Indian Territory reservations and crossed the Red River to the south. But, heir last desperate attempt to regain the land of their ancestors meant dead white settlers, embattled soldiers, and shaken supply routes. General Sheridan's seasoned forced were now on the move to stem the Indian tide. And, crack Army Sergeant Seamus Donegan would...
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Plainsmen volume 7
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English
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Dying Thunder
Terry Johnston
Newly freed from service with the 10th Cavalry, Seamus Donegan joins a party of buffalo hunters as they follow the shrinking herds into the ancient hunting grounds of the Kiowa and Comanche. The presence of the white men ignites a storm of Indian fury and the group is besieged. Donegan and some 27 men and one woman take shelter in a few sod shanties. They hold off over 700 braves for five days in the fight at Adobe Walls.
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Plainsmen volume 8
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English
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Blood Song
Terry C. Johnston
Frontier Scout Seamus Donegan is heading for Montana Territory with his new bride when war erupts in the Black Hills of Dakota. Sitting bull and Crazy horse have defied the federal Government and refused to lead the wild tribes of the Northern Plains onto the reservation, and Washington decides to end the Indian problem once and for all.
Donegan joins us with General George Cook who is leading the 2nd and 3rd Cavalry...
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Reap the whirlwind: the Battle of the Rosebud, June 1876 , Plainsmen volume 9
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Trumpet on the land: The Sibley scout, the skirmish at Warbonnet Creek, the battle of Slim Buttes and Crook's Horse-meat March--The aftermath of the Custer Massacre , Plainsmen volume 10
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A cold day in hell: the Spring Creek encounters, the Cedar Creek fight, with Sitting Bull's Sioux, and the Dull Knife Battle, November 25, 1876 , Plainsmen volume 11
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Plainsmen volume 12
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
xviii, 424 p. : maps ; 18 cm.
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English
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Scout Seamus Donegan begins to wonder whether he will ever see his wife and newborn son again when his commander Colonel Nelson A. Miles makes a push into butte country and an engagement with the Lakota Indians.
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Plainsmen volume 13
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English
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The U.S. Army's goal: to wipe out the remnants of scattered, starving people on the frontier's Northern Plain. But, before Colonel Nelson A. Miles, the Bear Coat, launched his spring campaign into the heart of Indian country, the commander took one last stab at negotiations-and called on a Cheyenne woman and the famous half-breed pony scout named Johnny Bruguier. Together, they traveled to the valley of the upper Rosebud River to urge the Sioux to...
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Plainsmen volume 14
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English
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Cries from the Earth
Terry C. Johnston
By mid-1877, trouble in the Northwest is brewing like a foul broth. Ill will is growing between white settlers and the Non-Treaty bands of the Nez Perce. The American government is forcing the Indians from their homelands onto the reservation. Many go quietly, thinking more about their families than of the pride of their warriors. But for a few holdouts, there's no room for compromise. Their history, their...
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Lay the mountains low: the flight of the Nez Perce from Idaho and the Battle of the Big Hole, August 9-10, 1877 , Plainsmen volume 15
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Plainsmen volume 16
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English
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Turn the Stars Upside Down is the compelling and little-known story of Crazy Horse's surrender in 1877 only months after his last fight with the U.S. Army at Battle Butte, his futile attempts to find peace for his warrior heart among the reservation Indians, and his eventual undoing at the hands of his own Oglala people.
For all his life, this warrior has been a defender of the weak and helpless. But surrounded now on a tiny red island in a sea of...