Sitting Bull, Ghost Dancing, and the Closing of the Frontier

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    • Alfred Crosby, Ecological Imperialism
    • Anne Butler, Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery
    • Bernard DeVoto, Across the Wide MissouriThe Course of EmpireThe Year of Decision
    • Clyde Milner and Carol O’Connor, Oxford History of the American West
    • David Dary, The Oregon TrailCowboy Culture
    • Elizabeth Fenn, Encounters at the Heart of the World
    • Francis Parkman, any part of France and England in the New World; Oregon Trail
    • Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History
    • Frederick Merk, Manifest Destiny or Mission
    • Gleaves Whitney, Colorado Front Range
    • Howard Lamar, The New Encyclopedia of the American West
    • James Fenimore Cooper, any of the Leatherstocking Tales
    • John Mack Faragher, Daniel Boone
    • Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
    • Mark Twain, Roughin’ It
    • Mari Sandoz, Cheyenne AutumnCrazy Horse
    • Patricia Limerick, The Legacy of ConquestThe Frontier in American Culture
    • David Edmunds, TecumsehThe Shawnee Prophet
    • Richard Gamble, In Search of a City on a Hill
    • Robert Carriker, Father Peter John DeSmet
    • Robert Utley, The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting BullFrontiersmen in BlueLone Star JusticeA Life Wild and Perilous
    • Teddy Roosevelt, Winning of the West
    • Willa Cather, Death Comes for the ArchbishopMy AntoniaO Pioneers
    • William Cronin, Nature’s Metropolis