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| Hard Face Moon
By Nancy Oswald
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On November 29, 1864, a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped along Sand Creek in the southeastern Colorado Territory was attacked by Colorado Territory militia under the command of Colonel John Chivington. An estimated 150 to 200 Native Americans were killed, nearly all of them elderly men, women, and children. Nancy Oswald, author of the aclaimed young adult novel Nothing Here But Stones, uses the horrific events at Sand Creek as a shattering climax for the story of Hides Inside, a young Cheyennne unable to speak and struggling to gain accptance as he grows to manhood and seeks to become a warrior.
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ISBN: 978-0-86541-089-3
Price: $ 15.00
Available: October 2008 |
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The Now You Know Bio series will continue to expand with three new titles this fall.
William Jackson Palmer 
William Jackson Palmer, founder of Colorado Springs, will be brought to the series by Joyce B. Lohse, author of Now You Know Bio's on Justina Ford, Emily Griffith, and Molly Brown.
General Palmer was a Civil War hero, and he founded the narrow-guage Denver & Rio Grand Western Railroad, which was an important part of Colorado's history. In 1870, Palmer purchased 10,000 acres of land near the frontier town of Colorado City, and a year later established the town of Colorado Springs. Chipeta: Ute Peace Woman Chipeta was the wife, confidant, and advisor to Chief Ouray of the Tabeguache band of Ute Indians. After Ouray's death in 1880, Chipeta continued as a leader of her people through times of challenge and hardship until her death in 1924. Respct for Chipeta was such that she came to be known as 'queen' by both whites and Utes.
Cynthia Becker is co-author with David Smith of Chipeta: Queen of the Utes, and she brings the exhaustive research of that work to this Now You Bio of an inspirational Native American woman.
Bob Sakata: Citizen Farmer Bob Sakata began farming in Brighton, Colorado, in 1946 and has invented his own brand of sweet 'Sakata' corn distributed to Safeway and Albertson stores. He is a Japanese-American who lived through the terror of being placed in internment capms during World War II.
Author Dan Blegen is co-author with Melvin Bacon of the Filter Press publication Bent's Fort: Crossroads fo Cultures on the Santa Fe Trail. |
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Price: $ 8.95
Available: October 2008 |
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