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Wolves in Blue: Stories of the North Brothers and Their Pawnee Scouts
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Noteworthy Americans Quick Reader Biography series

Wolves in Blue: Stories of the North Brothers and Their Pawnee Scouts (2011) (edit title/settings)

by Jean A. Lukesh (Author) (edit contributors)

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A young adult quick reading biography of brothers Frank and Luther North and their Pawnee Scouts who worked with the U.S. Army to protect and rescue overland trail travelers, settlers, soldiers, and Union Pacific railroad workers during the Plains Indian Wars and the building of the... read more

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A young adult quick reading biography of brothers Frank and Luther North and their Pawnee Scouts who worked with the U.S. Army to protect and rescue overland trail travelers, settlers, soldiers, and union Pacific Railroad workers across the Great Plains during the Plains Indian Wars of the... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

A young adult quick reading biography of brothers Frank and Luther North and their Pawnee Scouts who worked with the U.S. Army to protect and rescue overland trail travelers, settlers, soldiers, and union Pacific Railroad workers across the Great Plains during the Plains Indian Wars of the 1860s and 1870s and during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. Two of those Pawnee Scouts "shared" the first Congressional Medal of Honor ever given to a Native American.

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In 1856, when they were sixteen- and ten-years old, brothers Frank and Luther North traveled by railroad, stagecoach, and wagon to the newly opened wilderness of Nebraska Territory. There they not only learned to survive in the Plains wilderness, but to thrive in it.

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  • gandy dancers: the men workers who put down the tracks for the building of the railroad lines in the 1860s, particularly on the Union Pacific (Transcontinental Railroad) line
  • Loup: A French word meaning "wolf" as used by the 1700s/1800s French fur traders who often traded with and sometimes lived with the Skidi (or Loup or Wolf) band of the Pawnee Indians near the Loup (or Wolf) River in Nebraska.
  • Skidi Pawnee: The Wolf or Loup band of the Pawnee who often lived on the Loup River in Nebraska until the mid-1870s.

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This book is in Noteworthy Americans Quick Reader Biography series. (standard series)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Jean A. Lukesh (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Field Mouse Productions
Country: USA
Publication Date: December 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9647586-4-3
Page Count: 188

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  • Library of Congress: E83.866
  • Dewey: 970.06, 921, B

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

ages 10-110, written for children, but adults and senior citizens like it too.

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Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • Pawnee Hero Stories And Folk-Tales: With Notes On The Origin, Customs And Character Of The Pawnee People
  • Two Great Scouts and Their Pawnee Battalion: The Experiences of Frank J. North and Luther H. North, Pioneers in the Great West, 1856-1882, and Their Defence ... Building of the Union Pacific r (Bison Book)

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