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Behold the Shining Mountain by Gary wilkes and Delores Brown - This is book 2 of “History As It Happens”. An authoritative historical work based upon the extensive research in its bibliography, the authors’ interviews of historians and photographs of artifacts and natural sites. The book features letters, journals, diaries and periodicals, which were also used to shape the dialogue and attitudes of its real life Talking History characters. It covers the years from 1830 to 1836. Price: $14.95	The Life and Times of Nathaniel Hale Pryor by Lawrence R. Reno - Praised as a “man of character and ability” by Captains Lewis and Clark of the Voyage of Discovery, Nathaniel Hale Pryor played an important role in exploring and settling the Western Frontier. In addition to the Lewis and Clark Expedition, you’ll read about Pryor’s troubles with the Indians on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, how he spied on the camp of Tecumseh, his valiant service under Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans and how he assisted early explorers and traders who ventured up the Arkansas River to Santa Fe. As a trader himself, Pryor negotiated with tribes in the Upper Mississippi river area and the Indian Territory to the west of Arkansas. When he intermarried into the Osage Nation, he became their friend, adviser and spokesman. Price: $24. 95	Osage Indian Customs and Myths by Louis F. Burns - Siouan peoples who migrated from the Atlantic coastal region and settle in the central portion of the North American continent long before the arrival of Europeans are now known as Osage. Because they did not possess a written language, their myths and cultural traditions were handed down orally through many generations. With time, only those elements deemed vital were preserved in the stories, and many of these became highly stylized. The resulting verbal recitations of the proper life of an Osage-from genesis myths to body decoration, from star songs to child-naming rituals, from war party strategies to medicinal herbs- are transcribed here by a member of the Osage people, the author Louis Burns. Price: $19.95	The Osage by Willard H. Rollings -The Osage Indians were a powerful group of Native Americans who lived along the prairies and plains of present-day Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas. The Osage: An Ethnohistorical Study of Hegemony on the Prairie-Plains, shows how the Osage formed and maintained political, economic, and social control over a large portion of the central United States from more than 150 years. Price: $29.95
Trails of the White Savages by Gary Wiles and Delores Brown - Branded “White Savages” by Ben Franklin, the Scotch-Irish outcasts became America’s warriors and trailblazers of the early 1800’s. Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston, Kit Carson, David Crockett, Joseph Walker, Ewing Young and others fought duels, wars and Indians. Together, they rose from obscurity to become America’s most powerful men. Price: $17.95	Ponder the Path by Gary Wiles and Delores Brown - The first of 3 books of the Talking History Series featuring the true exploits of the Sublette family and their legendary cohorts, battling Indians, grizzlies, bad whiskey and each other for the West’s vast beaver fortunes that lured many men to shallow graves. It spans America’s brawling years from 1808 to 1830. Price: 13.95	Geronimo - Volume 142 in The Civilization of the American Indian Series the author offers an account of Geronimo as a man “full of energy and drive, fiercely independent, possessed of great business acumen, and interested in everything.” (Journal of American History). Her book details his life and circumstances including the “capricious nature of our Indian policy during a period of some 50 years.” (Washington Post) Price: 24.95	Osage County-A Tribe and American Culture: 1600-1934 - Presents a history of the Osage tribe and the Europeans and Americans who settled this territory, covering the period from the first contacts between Native Americans and Europeans to Lloyd’s own lifetime. A mixture of history and personal and family memoir, it is also a meditation on the life and culture of Native Americans in the United States. Lloyd provides an account of the impact of progress, including the discovery of oil, on the Osage people. Price: $32.95
The Osage Indian Murders by Lawrence J. Hogan - A former FBI Agent and former U.S. Congressman Lawrence J. Hogan chronicles the investigations by the federal government for several years into the murders of Osage Indians at the hands of those who wanted their oil-rich inheritance. It provides a gripping picture of how the white man cheated the Osage in every way they could from marrying into the tribe, killing their relatives or wives for their inheritance. Black and white photos of Indians and outlaws, murder scenes and city streets bring to life the reality of those times. Price: $24.95	The Osage-It's Ranching Legacy by Les Warehime - Les Warehime is without ranching experience, but at a very early age he was exposed to the romance of the cowboys and the myths and legends of the ranchers by the “real story tellers” who gathered in the heart of the Osage at Joe Butler’s general store in Okesa. After working for Phillips Petroleum and John Zink Company, both big ranch owners in the Osage, their ranching continued to fuel his adult interest in the subject. His quest for information prompted him to write this book he wished he could find to buy. Price: $45.00	The History of Ranching the Osage - Tells the story of how ranching got its start and how it prospered and grew to permeate the county’s economic base and its social fabric. It is the story of personal sacrifices and the huge rewards garnered by those who chose to be a part of establishing the cattle industry there. Price: $40.00	Osage County, Oklahoma 1906 by Philip Dickerson - This collection of the history on Osage County was authored and privately printed by Philip Dickerson, M.A. in 1906. An original copy of this work was purchased and reprinted. The work provides a history and description of Osage county and its people.
A History of the Osage People by Louis F. Burns - Burns draws on ancestral oral traditions and research to trace 400 years of Osage Culture from prehistoric times to the present. Price: 39.95	Art of the Osage (St. Louis Art Museum) - Contains photographs of more than 100 works of the art of the Osage people. Osage art has never been commercialized as Osage artisans have made and continue to make items only for members of their families or for other members of the Osage community. Contemporary Osage art shows direct continuity in decorative motifs and basic forms with Osage art from earlier periods. It represents one of a declining number of truly indigenous living Native artistic traditions in the United States. Price: $37.00	Osage County Profiles (Osage County Historical Society, Inc 1964) - Contains stories that contribute to an aspect of living history. The purpose for the book was to preserve the information and to help future generations better understand and appreciate the beginnings of our county. Price: $60.00	A Pipe for February by Charles Redcorn - Charles Redcorn is a member of the Tzishuwashtahgi Clan (Peace Clan) of the Osage Tribe. The story provides a description of Osage customs and moral dilemmas posed by their sudden wealth. It takes place in the 1920’s when the Osages became members of the world’ first wealthy oil population. Many found they could live lives of leisure; yet they also found themselves targets of opportunists, swindlers and murderers bent on taking their wealth from them. Price: $29.95
The Osage Ceremonial Dance 'I'n-Lon-Schka' by Anne Callahan - ‘I’n-Lon-Schka’ gives a detailed description of the Osage. It provides information about contemporary Osage society as well as American Indian dance and music. Price: $19.95	Those Illustrious Frenchmen by Sophia LittleBear Dahlberg - Provides a geneology of the Osage and the French a) Published 1985- The Enumeration of the Osage Tribe of Indians- Price: $25.00 b) Published 1986- Osage Indians 1878-1879- Price: $12.00 c) Published 2000- Chapter Three- Price: $22.50 d) Published 2001- Chapter Four- Price: $22.50 e) Published 2004-Chapter Seven- Price: $22.50 f) Published 2005- Chapter Eight- Price: $22.50 g) Published 2006- (France-Louisiana-Missouri-Kansas-Oklahoma)-Price: $22.50	Bloodland by Dennis McAuliffe, Jr. - While researching his own roots, Washington Post journalist Dennis McAuliffe, Jr. opens old family wounds and ultimately exposes a wised spread murder conspiracy and shameful episode in American history. In the 1920's oil production on the Osage reservation transformed the tribe into the wealthiest population in the world. Tribal members attended the most exclusive finishing schools and Ivy League universities, owned expensive automobiles, and dressed in the finest fashions of the era. In a frenzy that resembled the Gold Rush, strangers descended upon the region, courting and marrying Osage women. Many of the new brides and their Osage relatives died mysteriously shortly after their weddings. The string of murders became known as the Osage Reign of Terror and was the FBIs first major undercover murder investigation. McAuliffe first noticed inconsistencies in accounts of the sudden death of his beautiful, well-educated young grandmother. After piecing together evidence from the FBI files and Osage tribal members personal accounts, McAuliffe is forced to accept that his own grandfather may well have engineered her murder. Price: $13..95	Pawhuska Cemetary Records 1888-1996 - Price: 35.00
Burnham: King of Scouts” (Baden-Powell’s Secret Mentor) by Peter van Wyk - This book offers an accurate portrayal of how the Boy Scouts were born -- a thrilling story. (After this book was published, www.Answers.com flatly declared that Burnham is "the father of the international scouting movement." The book details the incredible adventures in a life full of adventure. Fred Burnham was a game hunter, scout, prospector, miner, banker, will-o-the-wisp adventurer, soldier, explorer, best-selling author, developer and conservationist. Orphaned at age 13 in Los Angeles of 1873, he attended but one year of school in his life. Yet he hob-nobbed with the dons of Eton and his neighbor who founded Caltech. Much of the basis for this biographical novel comes from forty years of private correspondence, which lasted until 1940 after Baden-Powell retired to Kenya. Fred Burnham lived a life of unparalleled adventure that made the experiences of Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson and Jim Bridger pale in comparison. There is a chapter that mentions the first Boy Scout troop in Pawhuska and information on the Osage County Historical Museum. Price: $34.95