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William Apess was born in 1798 in Colrain in northwestern Massachusetts to William and Candace Apess of the Pequot tribe. According to his autobiography, his father was mixed Pequot and European American, as Apess' white paternal grandfather had married a Pequot woman.
Killing Crazy Horse focuses on the American frontier during the 1800s and the clashes between settlers and Native Americans. O'Reilly and Dugard tell the story of American expansion out West through Native American warriors such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, Cochise, Black Hawk and Red Cloud; U.S. Presidents Andrew Jackson and Ulysses S. Grant; and General George Armstrong Custer ...
The cougar (Puma concolor) (/ ˈ k uː ɡ ər /, KOO-gər), sometimes called the mountain lion, catamount, or puma, is a large small cat native to the Americas. It inhabits North, Central and South America, making it the most widely distributed wild, terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere, and one of the most widespread in the world.
By the end April 1926, Keck had prepared three models, two with the catamount and a third featuring Revolutionary War memorabilia. The commission on the 30th approved one showing a walking catamount for the reverse, and asked that the words FOUNDER OF VERMONT be removed and IRA ALLEN be substituted. The Vermont commission objected, and the ...
Catamounts was the favorite of head football coach C.C. Poindexter and was the nickname chosen. Poindexter wanted his players to be Catamounts with "fierce spirit, savage attacks, and lightning quick moves." Paws the Catamount is the official mascot of Western Carolina University. He appears at numerous events and functions across western North ...
Making their third straight NCAA Tournament appearance, the America East champion Catamounts (28-6) are a 13-seed and are sizing up a first-round upset against No. 4-seeded Duke (24-8).
Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, RMS Titanic, 1912 is a romantic historical novel written by Ellen Emerson White, and is the eleventh book of the Dear America series. The book was first published in 1998, and republished with new cover art in 2010.
The book includes details of a deathbed confession from a man who claimed to have been on the boat that picked them up on the night of the escape; it also details how searchers found a raft filled ...