Black Hawk And Other Tales Of The Amazon

This followup volume to "Amazon Nights" presents more adventures of Amazon workers Pedro and Lourenco, as they work, explore, and play in the exotic depths of the Amazon jungle. Included are the novels "Black Hawk" and "The Pathless Trail" and the novelet "The Tapir."

This followup volume to "Amazon Nights" presents more adventures of Amazon workers Pedro and Lourenco, as they work, explore, and play in the exotic depths of the Amazon jungle. Included are the novels "Black Hawk" and "The Pathless Trail" and the novelet "The Tapir."

Autobiography of early 19th century leader of the Sauk and Fox Indians. Describes tribal customs, traditions, Indian wars, more.

Black Hawk, An Epic American Indian Tragedy, offers poetic and historic perspectives on Chief Black Hawk and the Black Hawk War (April - August 1832). The epic poem sings the praises of Black Hawk and his family, including son Whirling Thunder, and laments their defeat. The history traces Black Hawk's life before, during and after the war, along with a day by day account of the battles fought against the US Army. After Black Hawk was captured he was brought to the East to act as a spokesman for native Americans and developed into a celebriity among the whites. Black Hawk was born in 1767 in the Sauk village of Saukenuk on the Rock River where Rock Island, Illinois is now located. His father, Pyesa, was the tribal medicine man. The Sauk people used the village in the spring and summer for raising corn and as a burial site, then broke into small groups and moved across the Mississippi River for winter hunting and fur trapping. Although Black Hawk inherited an important medicine bundle, he was not one of the Sauk's civil chiefs. His status came from leading successful war parties against competing Indian tribes and serving the British as head of all the native forces allied with them in the War of 1812. He carried the rank of brevet Brigadier General and was familiar with military strategy and protocol as a result of that experience. JOAN BONNELL CLARK brings her long time passion for the Black Hawk story to the written page with this small volume containing her epic poem on the Black Hawk War, along with a day by day history of the conflict. Rev. Clark is an ordained Episcopal deacon and retired from the faculty of Rockford University in Rockford, Illinois. She currently lives and writes in Florida. She is the author of four previous books: Along The Way, Glimpses Of God, and All About Love From Mixed Experience--all poetry collections--and a novel, All My Ladies.

Nicholas Flamel appeared in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series—but did you know he really lived? And he might still be alive today! Discover the truth behind Michael Scott’s New York Times bestselling series the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel with “The Ballad of Black Hawk and Billy the Kid,” an ebook original short story. Billy the Kid is immortal. And his long life has led him down many strange and winding paths—one of which will bring him face to face with another legendary warrior, Black Hawk, for the first time. Now, that lost story is told. . . . An immortal Anasazi sorceress is on the loose, and it’s up to Black Hawk and Billy the Kid to stop her from wreaking havoc on the Americas. The woman has already destroyed her own tribe. She’s determined to wipe out Black Hawk’s people, too. But first, she’ll have to defeat him, and that’s proving more difficult than the sorceress could have ever imagined. “Fans of adventure fantasies like Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians series will eat this one up.” —VOYA Read the whole series! The Alchemyst The Magician The Sorceress The Necromancer The Warlock The Enchantress

#1 New York Times Bestseller: The “riveting” account of the 1993 operation in Mogadishu—the longest sustained firefight involving US troops since Vietnam (The Wall Street Journal). On October 3, 1993, about a hundred elite US soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take an hour. Instead, they found themselves pinned down through a long and terrible night fighting against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. The following morning, eighteen Americans were dead and more than seventy had been badly wounded. Drawing on interviews from both sides, army records, audiotapes, and videos (some of the material is still classified), Bowden’s minute-by-minute narrative is one of the most exciting accounts of modern combat ever written—a true story that captures the heroism, courage, and brutality of battle. “One of the most gripping and authoritative accounts of combat ever written.” —USA Today “Journalistic writing at its best.” —The Boston Globe “Vivid, immediate, and unsparing.” —The Washington Post Includes a new afterword

Revealing never-before-told stories with the incisive thought and emotion of one who was there. "The author does not pull any punches...his story, is one of great bravery, of going to hell and making it back." —Indianapolis Star His battered face appeared on the cover of Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report to the shock and horror of all Americans. Black Hawk pilot Mike Durant was shot down and taken prisoner during America's biggest firefight since the Vietnam War. Published in the tenth anniversary year of the Somali conflict, this gripping personal account at last tells the world about Durant's harrowing captivity and the heroic deeds of his doomed comrades. And, as readers will discover, Durant proves himself to be nothing less than a hero.

In 1832, facing white expansion, the Sauk warrior Black Hawk attempted to forge a pan-Indian alliance to preserve the homelands of the confederated Sauk and Fox tribes on the eastern bank of the Mississippi. Here, Patrick J. Jung re-examines the causes, course, and consequences of the ensuing war with the United States, a conflict that decimated Black Hawk's band. Correcting mistakes that plagued previous histories, and drawing on recent ethnohistorical interpretations, Jung shows that the outcome can be understood only by discussing the complexity of intertribal rivalry, military ineptitude, and racial dynamics.