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1) Invincible
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Mercenary by name and by nature, Carson is a Lakota Sioux who stays to himself and never keeps women around long enough for anything emotional to develop. But working with his friend Cash Crier on a complex murder investigation provides Carson with another kind of fun: shocking Cash's sweet but traditional secretary, Carlie Blair, with tales of his latest conquests.
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"Inspired by actual historical fact, James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk tells the story of an Oglala Sioux who travels the extraordinary geographical and cultural distance from tribal life in the Black Hills of South Dakota to existence on the streets of Marseille. As a young boy, Charging Elk witnessed his people's massacre of Custer's Seventh Cavalry at Little Big Horn, followed by years of futile fighting and wandering until the Sioux...
5) Blue savage
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1985
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Harper, an orphan raised by the Oglala Sioux, has to make a decision. Does he join the army and fight the Indians, or die slowly on a Louisiana work farm?
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2008.
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saloon proprietor Vin Lockhart is known throughout Denver as a respectable businessman. He also has a reputation for quickness on the draw--a skill sure to come in handy when his old Oglala friends solicit his aid. It seems treacherous whites are once again intent on pushing the Oglaglas from their already diminished lands. A man of honor through and through, Vin commits himself to their fight. But in these rough and tumble times, even the best gunslinger...
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2004
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Physician Valentine T. McGillycuddy, singled out for his experience among the Sioux McGillycuddy attended Crazy Horse on his deathbed, the 30-year-old doctor accepts a surprise appointment to replace the government's corrupt Indian agent at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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Plainsmen volume 16
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2001
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Marking a hiatus from Cries from the Earth and Lay the Mountains Low volumes one and two of a projected trilogy based on the Nez Perc War of 1877 this 16th western in the author's long-running Plainsmen series recounts Crazy Horse's surrender to the U.S. Army at Camp Robinson, Neb. Here the western historian diligently attempts to set straight the diverse and highly questionable account of the shameful events leading up to Crazy Horse's mortal...
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[1997]
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"In 1864, Jenny Sanders Pryor is brash, impetuous, optimistic, and nineteen. She and her husband, John, are about to embark on what they think will be a wonderful adventure, joining a wagon train along the Oregon Trail; they are young and in love and eager to begin their new life together. But Jenny will need every bit of her youthful strength and resilience, for she is about to be tested beyond the limits of her physical, emotional, and spiritual...