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24 titles for readers of Scalp Dance by Th Goodrich, selected for shared themes: Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, Military Science, 19th Century, and Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies).

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Valentine T. McGillycuddy Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux — Candy Vyvey Moulton

Valentine T. McGillycuddy Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux

Candy Vyvey Moulton

Themes: Indigenous Peoples in the Americas • Military Science • 19th Century

Cast in Deathless Bronze Andrew Rowan, the Spanish-American War, and the Origins of American Empire — Donald Tunnicliff Rice

Cast in Deathless Bronze Andrew Rowan, the Spanish-American War, and the Origins of American Empire

Donald Tunnicliff Rice

Themes: Military Science • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Kearny’s Dragoons Out West The Birth of the U. S. Cavalry — Will Gorenfeld

Kearny’s Dragoons Out West The Birth of the U. S. Cavalry

Themes: Military Science • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

A Surgeon with Custer at the Little Big Horn James DeWolf’s Diary and Letters, 1876 — James M. DeWolf

A Surgeon with Custer at the Little Big Horn James DeWolf’s Diary and Letters, 1876

James M. DeWolf

Themes: Military Science • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

War of a Thousand Deserts Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War — Brian DeLay

War of a Thousand Deserts Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War

Themes: Indigenous Peoples in the Americas • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

The Last Indian War The Nez Perce Story — Elliott West

The Last Indian War The Nez Perce Story

Themes: Indigenous Peoples in the Americas • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Pontiac’s War Its Causes, Course, and Consequences — Richard Middleton

Pontiac’s War Its Causes, Course, and Consequences

Richard Middleton

Themes: Indigenous Peoples in the Americas • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War — Clarissa W. Confer

The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War

Clarissa W. Confer

Themes: Indigenous Peoples in the Americas • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Andrew Jackson & His Indian Wars — Robert Vincent Remini

Andrew Jackson & His Indian Wars

Robert Vincent Remini

Themes: Indigenous Peoples in the Americas • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

The Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877 — Paul Howard Carlson

The Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877

Paul Howard Carlson

Themes: Indigenous Peoples in the Americas • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Red Sabbath The Battle of Little Bighorn — Robert J. Kershaw

Red Sabbath The Battle of Little Bighorn

Robert J. Kershaw

Themes: Indigenous Peoples in the Americas • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

The Battle of the Greasy Grass Custer’s Last Stand in Memory, History, and Popular Culture — Debra Buchholtz

The Battle of the Greasy Grass Custer’s Last Stand in Memory, History, and Popular Culture

Debra Buchholtz

Themes: Indigenous Peoples in the Americas • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Spirit in the Rock The Fierce Battle for Modoc Homelands — Jim Compton

Spirit in the Rock The Fierce Battle for Modoc Homelands

Themes: Indigenous Peoples in the Americas • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Killing Custer The Battle Of Little Bighorn And The Fate Of The Plains Indians — James Welch

Killing Custer The Battle Of Little Bighorn And The Fate Of The Plains Indians

Themes: Indigenous Peoples in the Americas • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Mapping the Four Corners Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875 — Robert S. McPherson

Mapping the Four Corners Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875

Robert S. McPherson

Themes: Indigenous Peoples in the Americas • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

The Frontier World of Fort Griffin The Life and Death of a Western Town — Charles M. Robinson

The Frontier World of Fort Griffin The Life and Death of a Western Town

Charles M. Robinson

Themes: Indigenous Peoples in the Americas • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Beyond Bear’s Paw The Nez Perce Indians in Canada — Jerome A. Greene

Beyond Bear’s Paw The Nez Perce Indians in Canada

Jerome A. Greene

Themes: Indigenous Peoples in the Americas • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

The War that Forged a Nation Why the Civil War Still Matters — James M. McPherson

The War that Forged a Nation Why the Civil War Still Matters

James M. McPherson

Themes: Military Science • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

The Skulking Way of War Technology and Tactics Among the New England Indians — Patrick M. Malone

The Skulking Way of War Technology and Tactics Among the New England Indians

Patrick M. Malone

Themes: Indigenous Peoples in the Americas • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Technology & Engineering

Hunting the Jackal A Special Forces and CIA Ground Soldier’s Fifty-Year Career Hunting America’s Enemies — Billy Waugh

Hunting the Jackal A Special Forces and CIA Ground Soldier’s Fifty-Year Career Hunting America’s Enemies

Themes: Military Science • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Technology & Engineering

Georgia Sharpshooter The Civil War Diary and Letters of William Rhadamanthus Montgomery, 1839-1906 — William Rhadamanthus Montgomery

Georgia Sharpshooter The Civil War Diary and Letters of William Rhadamanthus Montgomery, 1839-1906

William Rhadamanthus Montgomery

Themes: Military Science • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Technology & Engineering

Battle for Skyline Ridge The CIA Secret War in Laos — James E Parker

Battle for Skyline Ridge The CIA Secret War in Laos

Themes: Military Science • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Technology & Engineering

For Cause and Comrades Why Men Fought in the Civil War — James M. McPherson

For Cause and Comrades Why Men Fought in the Civil War

James M. McPherson

Themes: Military Science • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Technology & Engineering

Marye’s Heights Fredericksburg — Victor Brooks

Marye’s Heights Fredericksburg

Themes: Military Science • 19th Century • Technology & Engineering

If Scalp Dance by Th Goodrich is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, Military Science, 19th Century and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Candy Vyvey Moulton, Donald Tunnicliff Rice, Will Gorenfeld, James M. DeWolf, and others.

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