The Buckskin Man Tales
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The Buckskin Man Tales is a series of five novels by Frederick Manfred
that trace themes through the 19th C Great Plains. The books are
Frederick Manfred
Frederick Feikema Manfred was a noted Western author.Manfred was born in Doon, Iowa. He was baptized Frederick Feikes Feikema, VII, and he used the name Feike Feikema when he published his first books...
that trace themes through the 19th C Great Plains. The books are
- Conquering HorseConquering HorseFrederick Manfred's Conquering Horse is the first novel in a five-volume series he called "The Buckskin Man Tales." It tells a mythic story about Indian life on the Great Plains before the arrival of white people to the region.-References:...
set before 1800 - Lord GrizzlyLord GrizzlyLord Grizzly is a biographical novel by Frederick Manfred. It describes the survival ordeal of a real mountain man, Hugh Glass, who was attacked by a bear and abandoned in the wilderness by his companions , on the assumption he could not possibly live...
set around 1820-25 - Scarlet PlumeScarlet PlumeScarlet Plume is a novel by Frederick Manfred, the fourth in The Buckskin Man Tales. The Dakota War of 1862 is shown from the point of view of a woman captured by the Sioux at the beginning of the war...
set in 1862-63 - King of SpadesKing of Spades (novel)King of Spades is the fourth novel in Frederick Manfred's Buckskin Man Tales. It begins in Iowa before the Civil War and ends in 1876 in Deadwood, S.D....
set in 1860-76 - Riders of JudgmentRiders of JudgmentRiders of Judgment is the fifth book chronologically in Frederick Manfred's Buckskin Man Tales, which trace themes through five novels set in the 19th Century Great Plains. The story fictionalizes Wyoming's Johnson County War, based on Manfred's original research...
set in 1892