Cheyenne Native

Tenth in the Tales of the Old Wild West series by prolific western author Doyle Trent. In the tradition of the John Wayne classic westerns and legendary television series Gunsmoke and Bonanza. The Wild West. If the elements, rattlers, coyotes, and Indian’s didn’t kill you...the person sitting next to you in the saloon just might...just for the hell of it. This series is presented as self-contained standalone story novels that do not have to be read in any particular order. It gives readers an entertaining glimpse into what individuals from all walks of life encountered as they traversed...

Introducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Dry Bones, the first in the Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire. Johnson draws on his deep attachment to the American West to produce a literary mystery of stunning authenticity, full of memorable characters.

George Bird Grinnell charts the development of the Cheyenne people through the course of the 19th century and how they were forced to become increasingly militaristic, both with other tribes and the ever-encroaching United States government, in order to protect themselves and their culture. Although Grinnell states that "this book deals with the wars of the Cheyennes", he spends a great deal of time explaining their culture more deeply to provide a more complete picture of this fascinating tribe. 

One of the most famous Native American tribes on the Great Plains is the Cheyenne, and their fame may be surpassed only by their influence on American history. The Cheyenne shifted from a sedentary agricultural society to the kind of nomadic group many envision when thinking of groups on the Plains. Land disputes and conflicts with white settlers and the Cheyenne set in motion the chain of events that led to the most famous battle among Native Americans and the American government: the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

A dramatic new look at Custer's Last Stand in time for the 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, by the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Heart of Everything That Is. "As soon as listeners hear Johnny Heller's easy Western drawl, they'll know they're in for a story...

Grinnell, George Bird (1849-1938), was a conservationist and ethnographer. In this work, he records the major battles of the Cheyenne. All of the heroic Cheyenne chiefs and warriors are sympathetically described in this fascinating history.

This acclaimed New York Times bestselling biography of the legendary Sioux warrior Red Cloud, is “a page-turner with remarkable immediacy…and the narrative sweep of a great Western” (The Boston Globe). Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a...

Strongheart is the final installment to the One Thousand White Women trilogy, a novel about fierce women who are full of heart and the power to survive. In 1873, a Cheyenne chief offers President Grant the opportunity to exchange one thousand horses for one thousand white women, in order to...

Bloomsbury presents The Chosen and The Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States by David J. Silverman, read by James Markert. A sweeping chronicle placing race at the center of Native American U.S. history, from the award-winning author of This Land Is Their Land...

In The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory, James N. Leiker and Ramon Powers explore how the event has been remembered, told, and retold. They examine the recollections of Indians and settlers and their descendants, and they consider local history, mass-media treatments, and literature to draw thought-provoking conclusions about how this story has changed over time.

“Fantastic...Packed with heroic figures, lightning action, and great drama.” – Ralph Compton For generations they had survived on the open plains—against enemies, storms, and pestilence. Now, a new force was pushing into their lands, and in a desperate fight for their survival, they became...THE LAST WARRIORS. Out-numbered, out-gunned, they were the most courageous warriors of all—fighting for survival on their own land. From the acclaimed author of the FIRST FRONTIER colonial-era novel series Michael Kosser. WALKS ON THE WIND Once they owned the plains. Magnificent riders, fierce...

“Fantastic...Packed with heroic figures, lightning action, and great drama.” – Ralph Compton They were a people of a proud, long heritage—of ancient myths and ancient wars. Now, their world was changing forever, and among them would arise...THE LAST WARRIORS. They were outnumbered, out-gunned, and they were the most courageous warriors of all—fighting for survival on their own land. AUTUMN THUNDER His home was a vast, open plain of waving grass. His people were the Kiowa. And his name was Autumn Thunder, a man who watched his bravest leaders betrayed by the white men—even as he ...

In January Moon, Jerome Greene draws from extensive research and fieldwork to explore a signal - and appallingly brutal - event in American history: The desperate flight of Chief Dull Knife’s Northern Cheyenne Indians from imprisonment at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. In the wake of the Great Sioux War of 1876 - 77, the U.S. government expelled most Northern Cheyennes from their northern plains homeland to Indian Territory, in present-day Oklahoma. Following mounting hardships, many of those people, under Chiefs Dull Knife and Little Wolf, broke away, seeking to return north.

In the autumn of 1878, a band of Cheyenne Indians set out from Indian Territory, where they had been sent by the US government, to return to their homeland in Yellowstone country. Mari Sandoz tells the saga of their heartbreaking fifteen-hundred-mile flight.

This is a story about a young man, Ben, who is a tourist guide for Yellowstone National Park. While on vacation in the park, he wanders into a “restricted” area and is trapped under an avalanche. As the hours' pass, due to the extreme pain, he fades in and out of consciousness, and near death, he is rescued by an Indian Chief and his daughter, who, unknown to others, lives in the restricted area of the park. Because Ben had earlier befriended the Chief, he takes him to their village deep in the mountains, where he and his daughter nurse him back to health. Because of Ben's interest in ...

Set in 1864 Colorado Territory, based on the actual events that led up to the infamous massacre of peaceable Cheyennes and Arapahoes. At the height of frontier expansion, Joshua Frasier comes West as a missionary to the Cheyenne Indians. He marries into the tribe and then is recruited as chaplain in the Colorado militia to fight on the edges of the Civil War and to deal with the 'Indian problem.' Caught up in the military and political conflicts of frontier Colorado, Joshua's faith and mettle are tested severely. John Buzzard's well-crafted story weaves both historical and fictional ...

Hallettsville, Texas was home to ex-Confederate officer Slate Creed. But after taking an oath for the Union he discovered Yankees had taken over his plantation, named him an outlaw when he resisted, and framed him for murder... Now with a signed confession in his hand naming the real murderer, Creed can finally clear his name. With his nephew and sister-in-law, he's headed for Texas. But his trail is fraught with danger...and it won't do Creed much good to gain his reputation if he loses his life in the process.

Chip Chippendale met Ransom Barnes after the War Between the States, when the two cowboys drove a herd up from Texas together. But when Chip first laid eyes on Wyoming, he knew he was home, and the two friends split off on different trails. Each man went on to own his own ranch, but when Ransom's home is attacked and burned by a marauding band of Cheyenne warriors, he is faced with ruin - and makes matters worse by gunning down the Cheyenne leader's son.

WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD | FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY “This is an incredibly powerful book of poetry that is also fiction but it is so real, and singular, as to defy definition, and I defy anyone to read it and come away unchanged.” —Tommy Orange, author...

Packendes Epos vom Kampf einer legendären Kriegerin und Schamanin. Büffelfrau ist auf der ganzen Prärie bekannt. Die Chayenne verehren die Frau mit den magischen Kräften als Seherin, die Pawnee fürchten Büffelfrau als unerschrockene Kämpferin. In dem tapferen Weißer Biber findet die junge Indianerin einen Mann, der ihr ebenbürstig ist und die gleichen Träume und Ziele hat. Als er im Kampf umkommt und die heiligen Pfeile zudem in die Hände des Feindes fallen, fasst Büffelfrau einen Entschluss.