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    By Yancey, Diane
     c2013., Young Adult, ReferencePoint Press Call No: J HIST 326 .8 0973    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Understanding American historySummary Note: Describes the history of the abolition of slavery, covering important events, how slavery divided the nation, how slavery led to war, the legacy of the abolition of slavery, and more.
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    By Messner, Kate  Hooks, Gwendolyn  Smyth, Damon
     [2022]., Ages 8-12, Random House Call No: J HIST 973.3   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: History smashers.Summary Note: "Before the Civil War, there was a crack team of abolitionists who used quilts and signal lanterns to guide enslaved people to freedom. RIGHT? WRONG! The truth is, the Underground Railroad wasn't very organized, and most freedom seekers were on their own. With a mix of sidebars, illustrations, photos, and graphic panels, acclaimed author Kate Messner and coauthor and Brown Bookshelf contributor Gwendolyn Hooks deliver the whole truth about the Underground Railroad."--
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    -- Legends and lies: the real West
    By Fisher, David, 1946-  O'Reilly, Bill
     2015., Henry Holt and Co. Call No: J BIO 978   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your LibraryClick here to watch Summary Note: "The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's documentary television series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fascinating, eye-opening look at the truth behind the western legends we all think we know : How did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone Ranger based on a real lawman--and was he an African American? What amazing detective work led to the capture of Black Bart, the "gentleman bandit" and one of the west's most famous stagecoach robbers? Did Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid really die in a hail of bullets in South America? Generations of Americans have grown up on TV shows, movies and books about these western icons. But what really happened in the Wild West? All the stories you think you know, and others that will astonish you, are here--some heroic, some brutal and bloody, all riveting. Included are the ten legends featured in Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies docuseries --from Kit Carson to Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok to Doc Holliday-- accompanied by two bonus chapters on Daniel Boone and Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley. Frontier America was a place where instinct mattered more than education, and courage was necessary for survival. It was a place where luck made a difference and legends were made. Heavily illustrated with spectacular artwork that further brings this history to life, and told in fast-paced, immersive narrative, Legends and Lies is an irresistible, adventure-packed ride back into one of the most storied era of our nation's rich history"--
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    -- Story of the Star-spangled banner
    By Kroll, Steven  Andreasen, Dan
     c1994., Ages 3-6, Scholastic Call No: J HIST 349.73    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: An account of the writing of the "Star-Spangled Banner," detailing how Key was actually behind enemy lines at the time seeking release of a captured friend from the British, who would not allow their departure until the bombardment of Baltimore was completed.
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    By Lowry, Jackson  Compton, Ralph
     [2022]., Adults, Berkley Call No: AW COM   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: The gunfighter series.Summary Note: Augustus Yarrow is a top lawman, noted for going undercover to ferret out criminals: everyone from bank robbers to corrupt officials. He's the best of the best ... until he winds up dead. Isaac Scott is looking for something better than his life of riding the rails when the man he's sharing a car with is shot. There's money and mysterious papers on the man, who attempts to tell Ike something with his dying breat, right before Ike himself is arrested. When he's mysteriously freed, Ike realizes it's because the papers declare that he's Deputy Marshal Yarrow. Ike wants nothing to do with it. But when he stumbles across illegal shipments of enough arms and ammunition to start a war, Ike knows he's the only person who can stop the catastrophe from occurring - even if it means becoming a counterfeit lawman.--
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    By McCauley, Terrence
     [2020]., Adults, Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. Call No: AW MCC    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Pinnacle western.Summary Note: "At long last, U.S. Marshal Aaron Mackey and Deputy Billy Sunday will see crime baron James Grant and his kill-crazy cronies stand trial for the mayhem and suffering they unleashed on the people of Dover Station. But as Montana Territory's statehood is approaching, murdering devils like Grant can no longer be tolerated in positions of political power. Or can they? Montana's capital of Helena follows its own set of laws--laws that not only set Grant free, but give peacekeeping authority to a sadistic murdering gunslinger like Colonel Warren Bell, Mackey's commanding officer during the war. The city's leaders prefer keeping killers like Grant and Bell under their thumbs. Mackey knows there's no controlling these bloodthirsty madmen. And if they think they're above the law, then Mackey and Billy will just have to appoint themselves judge, jury, and executioners..."--
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    By Hedlund, Jody
     c2011., Adult, Bethany House Call No: FIC HED    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Priscilla White dreams of being a missionary, but when the missionary board says the only way she can serve is if she marries, she agrees to wed Eli Ernest and join him on his voyage west, but as they face the dangers of the journey, their marriage of convenience tests their faith, their resolve, and their hearts.
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    By Clavin, Thomas
     2017., Adults, St. Martin's Press Call No: HIST 978.176   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before long, Dodge City's streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick with gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes of every sort. By the 1870s, Dodge City was known as the most violent and turbulent town in the West. Enter Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. Young and largely self-trained men, the lawmen led the effort that established frontier justice and the rule of law in the American West, and did it in the wickedest place in the United States. When they moved on, Wyatt to Tombstone and Bat to Colorado, a tamed Dodge was left in the hands of Jim Masterson. But before long Wyatt and Bat, each having had a lawman brother killed, returned to that threatened western Kansas town to team up to restore order again in what became known as the Dodge City War before riding off into the sunset. The true story of their friendship, romances, gunfights, and adventures, along with the remarkable cast of characters they encountered along the way (including Wild Bill Hickock, Jesse James, Doc Holliday, Buffalo Bill Cody, John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, and Theodore Roosevelt) has gone largely untold--lost in the haze of Hollywood films and western fiction, until now"--
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    By Floca, Brian
     [2013], Ages 6-10, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: J TRAN 385.0973   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library