It's 1863, and the United States is in the midst of the Civil War when mixed-blood Jack Gaston is called back from Harvard University to his beloved Creek Nation. He is surprised to find that not only has he been elected to be a chief in the House of Warriors, he has also been conscripted as an officer in the Confederate Army. Gaston soon learns that the Civil War in Indian Territory is more than Confederate against Federal-it is tribe against tribe and family against family. Gaston takes part in most of the major battles of the brutal and bloody conflict, fighting alongside such great Indian army leaders as Stand Watie, Chilly McIntosh, and George Grayson. In trying to reunite his strife-torn people, Gaston discovers an Indian inside himself he didn't know existed. And among the burnt-out stubble of war, he finds love with the Mexican-Apache nurse Bonita Ochoa. This little-known corner of the Civil War was played out in the fields of the Creek Nation in what is now eastern Oklahoma. In a rich portrayal of period and place, The Confederate War Bonnet is an evocative historical novel that helps to answer how Indians became involved in the Civil War, why they joined Confederate forces, and how the experience shaped their future in America.

The Confederate War Bonnet: A Novel of the Civil War in Indian Territory

Literature & Fiction

Shakely, Jack

Contemporary

iUniverse

It's 1863, and the United States is in the midst of the Civil War when mixed-blood Jack Gaston is called back from Harvard University to his beloved Creek Nation. He is surprised to find that not only has he been elected to be a chief in the House of Warriors, he has also been conscripted as an officer in the Confederate Army. Gaston soon learns that the Civil War in Indian Territory is more than Confederate against Federal'it is tribe against tribe and family against family. Gaston takes part in most of the major battles of the brutal and bloody conflict, fighting alongside such great Indian army leaders as Stand Watie, Chilly McIntosh, and George Grayson. In trying to reunite his strife-torn people, Gaston discovers an Indian inside himself he didn't know existed. And among the burnt-out stubble of war, he finds love with the Mexican-Apache nurse Bonita Ochoa. This little-known corner of the Civil War was played out in the fields of the Creek Nation in what is now eastern Oklahoma. In a rich portrayal of period and place,The Confederate War Bonnetis an evocative historical novel that helps to answer how Indians became involved in the Civil War, why they joined Confederate forces, and how the experience shaped their future in America.

iUniverse, Inc.

Che Guevara's Marijuana & Baseball Savings & Loan: A Novel of the Early Days of the Peace Corps

Sex, drugs, revolution and the dawn of the Peace Corps. In 1963 volunteer Jack Harjo sits in the jungles of Costa Rica pondering three questions: is there a greater good; does it apply here; and can you really trademark Panama Red, Acapulco Gold and Maui Wowie?

Xlibris

POWs at Chigger Lake

Genre Fiction

Strider Nolan Media, Inc.

It is 1863, and the United States is in the midst of the Civil War when mixed-blood Jack Gaston is called back from Harvard University to his beloved Creek Nation. He is surprised to find that not only has he been elected to be a chief in the House of Warriors, he has also been conscripted as an officer in the Confederate Army. Gaston soon learns that the Civil War in Indian Territory is more than Confederate against Federal - it is tribe against tribe and family against family. Gaston takes part in most of the major battles of the brutal and bloody conflict, fighting alongside such great Indian army leaders as Stand Watie, Chilly McIntosh, and George Grayson. In trying to reunite his strife-torn people, Gaston discovers an Indian inside himself he didn't know existed. And among the burnt-out stubble of war, he finds love with Mexican-Apache nurse Bonita Ochoa. This little-known corner of the Civil War was played out in the fields of the Creek Nation in what is now eastern Oklahoma. In a rich portrayal of period and place, The Confederate War Bonnet is an evocative historical novel that helps to answer how Indians became involved in the Civil War, why they joined Confederate forces, and how the experience shaped their future in America.

The Confederate War Bonnet

A fictionalized account of the 1830s Indian Removal. It is 1829 and young Marco Secundus has given up on ever being adopted and leaving St. Matthew's Home for Boys. But when his attention is drawn by a respectable-looking Creek man, he decides to become an Indian himself. Marco finds himself welcomed into a Creek tribe by landowner John Coachman . . . just in time for the Indian Removal Act sponsored by President Andrew Jackson that uprooted Southern Indian tribes from their homes. Marco and John Coachman must use their knowledge and skills to help the Creeks navigate the treacherous exodus known as The Long Walk, despite obstacles thrown up by U.S. politicians and their own fellow Indians.

The Make-Believe Indian

United States

To Be An Okie and Other Poems of the Prairie

Poetry

Strider Nolan Publishing

Award-winning author Jack Shakely presents a collection of nineteen stories and essays. Although many are set in or around Oklahoma, this collection presents a nostalgic look at America - and Americana - through the decades. From the Civil War to the Iraq War, from Creek Indians to young orphans from New York City, these tall tales, fact-based anecdotes, and real life memoirs present a time capsule of the history of the United States.

Pretty Boy Floyd's Clarinet and Other Tall Tales of Oklahoma

History

Americas

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The Confederate War Bonnet: A Novel of the Civil War in Indian Territory

The Confederate War Bonnet: A Novel of the Civil War in Indian Territory

Che Guevara's Marijuana & Baseball Savings & Loan: A Novel of the Early Days of the Peace Corps

Che Guevara's Marijuana & Baseball Savings & Loan: A Novel of the Early Days of the Peace Corps

POWs at Chigger Lake

The Confederate War Bonnet

The Make-Believe Indian

To Be An Okie and Other Poems of the Prairie

Pretty Boy Floyd's Clarinet and Other Tall Tales of Oklahoma