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WESTERN BIOGRAPHY
Often our understanding of places or times becomes clearer by reading about the lives of those people who lived in them. The following list contains some biographies of people who have lived in and written about the American West.
American Indian Warrior Chiefs: Tecumseh, Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph, Geronimo — Jason Hook (970.3 HOO)
Annie Oakley — Shirl Kasper (Adult Biography OAKLEY, A)
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West — Wallace Stegner (978 STE)
Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life — Robert Utley (Adult Biography BILLY THE KID)
Black Elk Speaks — Black Elk (Adult Biography BLACK ELK)
Buffalo Bill, His Family, Friends, Fame, Failures, and Fortunes — Nellie Yost (Adult Biography CODY, W)
Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors — Stephen Ambrose (973.82 AMB)
Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place — Angie Debo (Adult Biography GERONIMO)
Lakota Woman — Mary Brave Bird (Adult Biography BRAVE BIRD, M)
Once They Moved Like the Wind: Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache Wars — David Roberts (973.0497 ROB)
Son of the Morning Star — Evan Connell (973.82 CON)
This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind — Ivan Doig (Adult Biography DOIG, I)
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West — Wallace Stegner (Adult Biography STEGNER, W)
(BT 10/97)
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