People of the Plains (Tony Hillerman's Frontier)
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ISBN: 0061009474 / Publisher: HarperTorch, February 1996
Reluctant army surgeon Jason Dobbs, disgraced Louisiana blue blood Jean Benoit, and Brule warrior Badger share their stories on a Wyoming outpost that becomes a battle ground between white settlers, the army, and Native Americans. Original.
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Tony Hillerman endorses this richly evocative new series that portrays the day-to-day lives of Native Americans in the west during a volatile time of betrayals great and small. The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 called for a reallocation of tribal lands in the Plains. Anticipating that the U.S. Government would make good on its promise of hefty sums to make up for their loss of property, a number of tribes stood on the threshold of history.- Englade is an Edgar Award-nominated author.
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