Robert J. Conley è stato un autore americano e cherokee, nato il 29 dicembre 1940 a Cushing, Oklahoma. È deceduto il 16 febbraio 2014, lasciando un lascito di scrittura fiction che esplorava l'eredità del suo patrimonio native americano. Conosciuto dal suo nome completo, Robert Jackson Conley, ha ricevuto il Premio per la Traiettoria Vita nel 2007 dal Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.
Come autore cherokee e membro iscritto della Nation Cherokee, una tribù riconosciuta a livello federale di nativi americani, il lavoro di Conley spesso rifletteva la sua background culturale e le sue esperienze. La sua scrittura abbracciava vari generi, tra cui la fiction storica, il mistero e i western, tutti i quali mettevano in mostra la sua prospettiva unica come autore native americano. La capacità di Conley di intrecciare insieme narrazioni avvincenti con dettagli culturali accurati lo rendeva sia di intrattenimento che istruttivo.
Nel corso della sua carriera, Conley ha pubblicato oltre 40 romanzi e diversi racconti, guadagnando riconoscimenti critici e una base di fan devoti. Il suo lavoro è stato riconosciuto con numerosi premi e onorificenze, tra cui lo Spur Award dai Western Writers of America e l'Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award dall'Oklahoma Center for the Book. I contributi di Conley alla letteratura native americana e alla scrittura di fiction hanno lasciato un impatto duraturo sul mondo letterario.
The Real People Books
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The Way of the Priests
1992
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The Dark Way
1993
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The White Path
1993
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The Way South
1993
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The Long Way Home
1994
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The Dark Island
1995
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The War Trail North
1995
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War Woman
1997
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The Peace Chief
1998
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Cherokee Dragon
2000
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Spanish Jack
2001
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Sequoyah
2002
Texas Outlaw Books
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Fugitive's Trail
2000
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A Cold Hard Trail
2001
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The Devil's Trail
2002
Double D Western Books (with Don Coldsmith, with T.V. Olsen, with Ray Hogan, with William Colt MacDonald, with H.B. Broome, with)
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Bitter Grass
1967
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The Tangled Web
1983
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The Last Buffalo Hunt
1985
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The Man Who Had Enemies
1988
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The Whipsaw Trail
1991
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Nickajack
1992
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Gambler's Luck
1993
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The Law and Lynchburg
2001
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Farewell to Texas
2008
Sheriff Go-Ahead Rider Books
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Go-Ahead Rider
1990
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To Make a Killing
1994
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Outside the Law
1995
Romanzi singoli
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Back to Malachi
1986
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The Actor
1987
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Killing Time
1988
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Wilder & Wilder
1988
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Colfax
1989
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The Saga of Henry Starr
1989
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Quitting Time
1989
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Ned Christie's War
1991
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Strange Company
1991
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Mountain Windsong
1992
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Border Line
1993
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The Long Trail North
1993
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Geronimo
1994
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Zeke Proctor
1994
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Crazy Snake
1994
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Captain Dutch
1995
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The Meade Solution
1998
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Incident at Buffalo Crossing
1998
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Brass
1999
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Barjack
2000
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Broke Loose
2000
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Medicine War
2001
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The Gunfighter
2001
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No Need for a Gunfighter
2008
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Barjack and the Unwelcome Ghost
2009
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Rio Loco
2011
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The Brothers
2013
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Walking the Trail
2015
Racconti brevi/Novelle
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Yellow Bird: An Imaginary Autobiography
1988
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Wil Usdi: Thoughts from the Asylum
2015
Collezioni
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The Rattlesnake Band & Other Poems
1984
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The Witch of Goingsnake
1988
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Plastic Indian
2018
Libri di non-fiction
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Cherokee
2002
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Cherokee (With: David Fitzgerald)
2002
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Cherokee Medicine Man
2005
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The Cherokee Nation
2005
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A Cherokee Encyclopedia
2007
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Cherokee Thoughts
2008
American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Books
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All My Relations
1988
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All My Relations (By: Thomas King)
1988
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Narrative Chance
1989
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Narrative Chance (By: Gerald Vizenor)
1989
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Other destinies
1992
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Other destinies (By: Louis Owens)
1992
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The Sharpest Sight
1992
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The Sharpest Sight (By: Louis Owens)
1992
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Dead Voices
1992
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Dead Voices (By: Gerald Vizenor)
1992
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Firesticks of Stories (By: Diane Glancy)
1993
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Firesticks of Stories
1993
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Summer in the Spring (By: Gerald Vizenor)
1993
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Summer in the Spring
1993
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Faces in the Moon
1994
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Faces in the Moon (By: Betty Louise Bell)
1994
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Grand Avenue
1994
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Grand Avenue (By: Greg Sarris)
1994
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Bone Game (By: Louis Owens)
1994
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Bone Game
1994
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The Massacre at Sand Creek
1995
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The Massacre at Sand Creek (By: Bruce Cutler)
1995
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Only Approved Indians (By: Jack D. Forbes)
1995
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Only Approved Indians
1995
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Wolfsong (By: Louis Owens)
1995
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Wolfsong
1995
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Eye Killers
1995
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Eye Killers (By: A. A. Carr)
1995
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Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction (By: James Ruppert)
1995
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Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction
1995
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Nightland (By: Louis Owens)
1996
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Nightland
1996
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On Native Ground (By: Jim Barnes)
1997
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On Native Ground
1997
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Kiss of the Fur Queen (By: Tomson Highway)
1998
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Mixedblood Messages
1998
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Kiss of the Fur Queen
1998
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Mixedblood Messages (By: Louis Owens)
1998
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Dark River (By: Louis Owens)
1999
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Dark River
1999
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Chancers (By: Gerald Vizenor)
2000
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Chancers
2000
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Briefcase Warriors (By: E. Donald Two-Rivers)
2001
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Briefcase Warriors
2001
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I Hear the Train
2001
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I Hear the Train (By: Louis Owens)
2001
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Other Words
2001
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Other Words (By: Jace Weaver)
2001
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The Mask Maker (By: Diane Glancy)
2002
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The Mask Maker
2002
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American Gypsy (By: Diane Glancy)
2002
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American Gypsy
2002
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Where the Pavement Ends
2003
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Where the Pavement Ends (By: William S. Yellow Robe Jr.)
2003
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Field of Honor (By: D.L. Birchfield)
2004
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Field of Honor
2004
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Silko
2004
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Silko (By: Brewster E. Fitz)
2004
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The Trickster of Liberty
2005
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The Trickster of Liberty (By: Gerald Vizenor)
2005
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A Pipe for February
2005
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A Pipe for February (By: Martin Scorsese, Charles H. Red Corn)
2005
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The Marriage of Saints (By: Dawn Karima Pettigrew)
2006
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The Marriage of Saints
2006
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Muting White Noise
2006
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Muting White Noise (By: James H. Cox)
2006
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The Singing Bird
2007
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The Singing Bird (By: John Milton Oskison)
2007
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The Cherokee Syllabary
2011
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The Cherokee Syllabary (By: Ellen Cushman)
2011
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Twenty Thousand Mornings
2012
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Twenty Thousand Mornings (By: Susan Kalter, John Joseph Mathews)
2012
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Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906 (By: James W. Parins)
2013
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Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906
2013
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The Native American Renaissance (By: Alan R. Velie)
2013
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The Native American Renaissance
2013
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Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories
2014
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Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories (By: Adam Fortunate Eagle)
2014
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Progressive Traditions (By: Joshua B. Nelson)
2014
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Progressive Traditions
2014
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Creative Alliances
2014
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Creative Alliances (By: Molly S. McGlennen)
2014
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Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction
2015
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Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction (By: Susan Kalter, John Joseph Mathews)
2015
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Wil Usdi: Novella
2015
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Wil Usdi: Novella (With: Luther Wilson)
2015
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Imagining Sovereignty (By: David J. Carlson)
2016
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Imagining Sovereignty
2016
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Chenoo
2016
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Chenoo (By: Joseph Bruchac)
2016
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Red Bird, Red Power (By: Tadeusz Lewandowski)
2016
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Red Bird, Red Power
2016
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John Joseph Mathews (By: Michael Snyder)
2017
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John Joseph Mathews
2017
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Back to the Blanket
2017
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Back to the Blanket (By: Kimberly G. Wieser)
2017
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Plastic Indian
2018
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Plastic Indian (With: Evelyn L. Conley, Geary Hobson)
2018
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Padoskoks
2021
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Padoskoks (By: Joseph Bruchac)
2021
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Watermelon Nights (By: Greg Sarris)
2021
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Watermelon Nights
2021
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Native Removal Writing (By: Sabine N. Meyer)
2022
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Native Removal Writing
2022
Double D Western Books
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Bitter Grass (By: T.V. Olsen)
1967
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The Tan-Faced Children (By: Frank Calkins)
1978
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The Tangled Web (By: Giles A. Lutz)
1983
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The Last Buffalo Hunt (By: Gary McCarthy)
1985
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The Man Who Had Enemies (By: H.B. Broome)
1988
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Break the Young Land (By: T.V. Olsen)
1990
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Keno (By: T.V. Olsen)
1991
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The Whipsaw Trail (By: Ray Hogan)
1991
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Nickajack
1992
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Gambler's Luck (By: H.B. Broome)
1993
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The Law and Lynchburg (By: Ray Hogan)
2001
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Farewell to Texas (By: L.L. Foreman)
2008
Native American Library Books (with Helen Dwyer, with Amy Stone, with Mary A. Stout)