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Rifles For Watie

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Author : Harold Keith
language : en
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date : 1987-09-25

Rifles For Watie written by Harold Keith and has been published by HarperTeen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-09-25 with Juvenile Fiction categories.

Jeff Bussey walked briskly up the rutted wagon road toward Fort Leavenworth on his way to join the Union volunteers. It was 1861 in Linn County, Kansas, and Jeff was elated at the prospect of fighting for the North at last. In the Indian country south of Kansas there was dread in the air; and the name, Stand Watie, was on every tongue. A hero to the rebel, a devil to the Union man, Stand Watie led the Cherokee Indian Na-tion fearlessly and successfully on savage raids behind the Union lines. Jeff came to know the Watie men only too well. He was probably the only soldier in the West to see the Civil War from both sides and live to tell about it. Amid the roar of cannon and the swish of flying grape, Jeff learned what it meant to fight in battle. He learned how it felt never to have enough to eat, to forage for his food or starve. He saw the green fields of Kansas and Okla-homa laid waste by Watie's raiding parties, homes gutted, precious corn deliberately uprooted. He marched endlessly across parched, hot land, through mud and slash-ing rain, always hungry, always dirty and dog-tired. And, Jeff, plain-spoken and honest, made friends and enemies. The friends were strong men like Noah Babbitt, the itinerant printer who once walked from Topeka to Galveston to see the magnolias in bloom; boys like Jimmy Lear, too young to carry a gun but old enough to give up his life at Cane Hill; ugly, big-eared Heifer, who made the best sourdough biscuits in the Choctaw country; and beautiful Lucy Washbourne, rebel to the marrow and proud of it. The enemies were men of an-other breed - hard-bitten Captain Clardy for one, a cruel officer with hatred for Jeff in his eyes and a dark secret on his soul. This is a rich and sweeping novel-rich in its panorama of history; in its details so clear that the reader never doubts for a moment that he is there; in its dozens of different people, each one fully realized and wholly recognizable. It is a story of a lesser -- known part of the Civil War, the Western campaign, a part different in its issues and its problems, and fought with a different savagery. Inexorably it moves to a dramat-ic climax, evoking a brilliant picture of a war and the men of both sides who fought in it.

Rifles For Watie

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Author : Harold Keith
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 1987-09-25

Rifles For Watie written by Harold Keith and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-09-25 with Juvenile Fiction categories.

Rifles For Watie

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Author : Harold Keith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-01-08

Rifles For Watie written by Harold Keith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-08 with categories.

Rifles For Watie

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Author : Harold Keith
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 1987

Rifles For Watie written by Harold Keith and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with United States categories.

Jeff Bussey, a Union volunteer, sees the Civil War from both sides when he is sent to spy on Stand Watie and his Confederate Cherokee raiders

Rifles For Watie Group Set

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Author : Booksource, The
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-08-01

Rifles For Watie Group Set written by Booksource, The and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-01 with categories.

Glossary And Notes

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Author : Heron Books
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-11-16

Glossary And Notes written by Heron Books and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-16 with Education categories.

This is a comprehensive glossary of terms describing the history, culture and customs of 19th century America as represented in Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith. There are over 200 entries including English words, slang, idiomatic and figurative expressions, historical terms and more that can't commonly be found in a middle school dictionary. Included in the introduction is a brief essay on the language and times of General Watie to assist readers in understanding the overall context of the story. There is also an essay regarding figurative language to assist readers with Keith's rich use of figurative language. To accommodate the different editions of Rifles for Watie, words are listed by chapter in the order they appear in the book with an alphabetical index in the back.