Friday, April 24, 2015

Readalikes: If you enjoyed April's selection...

If you enjoyed The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, then you might also like these books and films suggested by our discussion group members:

  • Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by John Neihardt
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
  • The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne
  • The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore
  • 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History winner Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn
  • The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan
  • Lonesome Dove both the novel by Larry McMurtry and the television miniseries
  • the film Dances With Wolves starring Kevin Costner
  • the film Red River starring John Wayne

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