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Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (1991, Library Binding)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100690049072
ISBN-139780690049077
eBay Product ID (ePID)27917
Product Key Features
Book TitleRifles for Watie
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicClassics, Action & Adventure / General, General, Historical / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Publication Year1991
GenreJuvenile Fiction
AuthorHarold Keith
FormatLibrary Binding
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight15.3 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience
LCCN57-010280
Dewey Edition18
Grade FromEighth Grade
Grade ToUP
Dewey Decimal823/.9/1
SynopsisJeff 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.
LC Classification NumberPZ7.K255 Ri
