Rifles for Watie /

Keith, Harold, 1903-1998.

Rifles for Watie / by Harold Keith. - 1st Harper Trophy ed. - New York : HarperTrophy, 1987, c1957. - xi, 332 p. : 1 map ; 18 cm.

"A Harper Keypoint book."

The story of Jeff Bussey, a farm boy living in 1861, who joins the Union army and goes on an important mission to discover how Stand Watie and his Confederate Cherokee Rebels are receiving repeating rifles from northern manufacturers.

Newbery Medal, 1958.

006447030X


Watie, Stand, 1806-1871 --Fiction.


Newbery Medal.


United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.

YA PZ 7 .K255 Ri 1987