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Carl Waldman

"Biographical Dictionary of American Indian History to 1900 summarizes the lives of a wide range of Indians and non-Indians central to Native American history. In more than 1,000 A-to-Z entries, author Carl Waldman profiles men and women who have made significant contributions from early contact until 1900. Not limited to chiefs and war leaders, the book also includes traders, prophets and religious leaders, statesmen, artists and photographers, medicine men and women, and scholars and educators. This revised edition also features expanded subject indexes, a new further reading list/bibliography, and a new general index."--BOOK JACKET.

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Sara Gordon Harrell

A biography of the Cherokee chief who led his people for more than 40 years, first in an effort to keep their homeland, and later through their greatest trial when they were forced to go west by the United States government.

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John Bowman

A biography of the Scottish immigrant who became the richest man in the world for his time, due to his involvements in the railroad, telegraph, iron, and steel; and who before he died disposed of the bulk of his fortune in philanthropic ways, feeling that a man who died with his fortune intact died disgraced.

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Larry McMurtry

"What was achieved and destroyed, what was made up and forgotten in the American West as the continent was mapped, the natives were displaced, and exploits were transformed into legends? In this new collection, Larry McMurtry profiles explorers and martyrs, hucksters and scholars - figures in the West's enduring yet ever-shifting mixture of myth and reality."--BOOK JACKET.