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Rifles for Watie is a children's novel by American writer Harold Keith. It was first published in 1957, and received the Newbery Medal the following year...

Brigadier-General Stand Watie (Cherokee: ᏕᎦᏔᎦ, romanized: Degataga, lit. 'Stand firm'; December 12, 1806 – September 9, 1871), also known as Standhope...

Cherokee Mounted Rifles and reorganized as the 1st Regiment of Cherokee Mounted Rifles with Stand Watie in command. During the war, Watie's troops participated...

Country for Old Men and The Road, Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights, Harold Keith's Rifles for Watie, and Dennis...

Horovitz wrote of The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Rifles for Watie and The Bronze Bow: "All have value, all are told skilfully. If they...

of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma Harold Keith, author of Rifles for Watie Ron Moore, professional football player...

Carolyn Horovitz wrote of The Bronze Bow, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Rifles for Watie, and The Witch of Blackbird Pond: "All have value, all are told skilfully...

frequently shortened to the Newbery, is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association...

civil war novel Rifles for Watie written in 1957 by Harold Keith. The Cherokee Female Seminary, which performed a parallel function for Cherokee girls...

Newbery Medal for his historical novel Rifles for Watie, which is based on the interviews he conducted for his Master's thesis. Rifles for Watie also won the...

1965, librarian Carolyn Horovitz wrote of Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Rifles for Watie, The Witch of Blackbird Pond and The Bronze Bow: "All have value, all...

Award: Randolph Stow, To the Islands Newbery Medal for children's literature: Harold Keith, Rifles for Watie Newdigate prize: Jon Stallworthy Nobel Prize in...

Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary Harold Keith (1903–1998) – Rifles for Watie Eric P. Kelly (1884–1960) – The Trumpeter of Krakow Gene Kemp (1926–2015)...

awarded the 1958 Newbery Medal for his historical novel Rifles for Watie, which is based on the interviews he did for his Master's thesis. Keith was a...

buried in the Mount Muncie Cemetery. James Blunt features briefly in Rifles for Watie, a novel by Harold Keith about a young Union soldier from Kansas fighting...

of Nathaniel Wolfe, The Private Life of Georgia Brown Harold Keith: Rifles for Watie Kody Keplinger: The DUFF M. E. Kerr: Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack, Little...

Poems and Dramas of Lord Byron' by George Gordon, Lord Byron (1903) Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (1957) (1958 Newbery Award) Faust: A Tragedy. by Goethe...

(Piffling) Tove Jansson – Moominland Midwinter (Trollvinter) Harold Keith – Rifles for Watie Elinor Lyon – Daughters of Aradale William Mayne – A Grass Rope Otfried...

leave the Union. He also served in the 2d Cherokee Mounted Rifles under his uncle Stand Watie. Boudinot was elected major of the regiment. In 1862, he was...

Sawyer, Roller Skates (1936), illus. Valenti Angelo Harold Keith, Rifles for Watie (1957) Aline Glasgow, Old Wind and Liu Li-San (1962), illus. Bernard...