Books written by Peter Aleshire

  • Library of American Indian History
    Library of American Indian History

    Brimming with quotes from original source documents, this young adult series explores the complex relations between Native Americans and non-Indians from the arrival of Columbus to the present day.

  • Fox And the Whirlwind: General George Crook And Geronimo: a Paired Biography
    Fox And the Whirlwind: General George Crook And Geronimo: a Paired Biography

    At the heart of that bitter and violent conflict lies the intriguing story of two of history's most brilliant strategists--united by their fierce loyalty to their peoples, yet divided by their warring bloods.

  • Warrior Woman: The Story of Lozen, Apache Warrior and Shaman
    Warrior Woman: The Story of Lozen, Apache Warrior and Shaman

    Warrior Woman is the story of Lozen, sister of the famous Apache warrior Victorio, and warrior in her own right.

  • Cochise: The Life and Times of the Great Apache Chief
    Cochise: The Life and Times of the Great Apache Chief

    This biography provides the first Apache view of a crucial period in American history

  • Deserts
    Deserts

    Suddenly, the seemingly lifeless sand and gravel of the desert soil erupts with a riotous bloom of frail red, ... Each seed has its own carefully programmed instructions in the form of DNA, which include requirements for everything from ...

  • Cochise: The Life and Times of the Great Apache Chief
    Cochise: The Life and Times of the Great Apache Chief

    Praise for Peter Aleshire?s The Fox and the Whirlwind"Superbly crafted." --Dallas Morning News"Offers a refreshing approach to understanding the Apache wars, allowing readers to grasp the conflict from multiple perspectives."...

  • Mountains
    Mountains

    These strange, squeezed up formations often shattered under their own weight. ... Coincidentally, the study of that fractured crust on the seafloor played a key role in the development of the theory of plate tectonics, which is perhaps ...

  • Mountains, Revised Edition
    Mountains, Revised Edition

    These strange, squeezed up formations often shattered under their own weight. ... Coincidentally, the study of that fractured crust on the seafloor played a key role in the development of the theory of plate tectonics, which is perhaps ...

  • Ocean Ridges and Trenches, Revised Edition
    Ocean Ridges and Trenches, Revised Edition

    ... Arctic Ocean, carrying ice along with it. He decided to build a ship with a hull strong enough to survive getting ... marooned himself in the ice near Siberia and spent the next year making painstaking scientific measurements as the ship ...