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1) Great circle
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The year 1540 was a crucial turning point in U.S. history: Francisco Vazquez de Coronado's expedition to the Great Plains began a 350-year struggle between colonizers and native tribes. During the series of battles between the military and civilian forces of the United States and the native American Indians, blood was shed, and ultimately tens of thousands of lives were lost on both sides. The Battle of Tippicanoe, the Battle of Horseshoe Band, all...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It's a cinematic image as familiar as John Wayne's face: a wagon train circling as a defensive maneuver against Indian attacks. This book examines actual and fictional wagon train battles and compares them for realism. It also describes how fledgling Hollywood portrayed the concept of westward migration but, as the evolving industry became more accurate in historical detail, how filmmakers then lost sight of the big picture.
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