SacajaweaHarper Collins, 2010 M11 2 - 1424 páginas Clad in a doeskin, alone and unafraid, she stood straight and proud before the onrushing forces of America's destiny: Sacajawea, child of a Shoshoni chief, lone woman on Lewis and Clark's historic trek -- beautiful spear of a dying nation. She knew many men, walked many miles. From the whispering prairies, across the Great Divide to the crystal capped Rockies and on to the emerald promise of the Pacific Northwest, her story over flows with emotion and action ripped from the bursting fabric of a raw new land. Ten years in the writing, SACAJAWEA unfolds an immense canvas of people and events, and captures the eternal longings of a woman who always yearned for one great passion -- and always it lay beyond the next mountain. |
Contenido
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| 33 | |
People of the Willows | 52 |
Bird Woman | 72 |
The Wild Dog | 101 |
The Trading Fair | 123 |
Toussaint Charbonneau | 135 |
The Mandans | 159 |
Dog Meat | 463 |
The Columbia | 489 |
The Pacific | 510 |
The Blue Coat | 531 |
Weasel Tails | 544 |
The Whale | 566 |
Book Four HOMEWARD | 587 |
Ahncutty | 589 |
The Okeepa | 189 |
The Game of Hands | 215 |
Book Two RETURN TO THE PEOPLE | 235 |
Lewis and Clark | 239 |
Birth of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau | 262 |
Farewell | 286 |
A Sudden Squall | 306 |
Beaver Bite | 322 |
Sacajaweas Illness | 334 |
Cloudburst | 350 |
Tabbabone | 360 |
The People | 377 |
Big Moose | 395 |
Divided | 414 |
Book Three THE CONTINENT CONQUERED | 431 |
Over the Mountains | 435 |
The Sick Papoose | 615 |
Retreat | 636 |
Pompeys Pillar | 651 |
Big White | 667 |
GoodByes | 680 |
Saint Louis | 702 |
Judy Clark | 736 |
Lewiss Death | 758 |
Otter Womans Sickness | 772 |
New Madrid Earthquake | 793 |
Book Five LIFE AND DEATH | 819 |
Lizette | 827 |
School | 839 |
Duke Paul | 856 |
Jerk Meat | 894 |
Comanche Marriage | 940 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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