Rifles for Watie
By: by Harold Keith
Edition: 1st Harper Keypoint ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins; Harper Collins
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780064470308; 9780690701814
Subjects: Wars, 1862-1865; Child soldiers; Indians of North America; Juvenile fiction; History; Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: "A Harper Keypoint book."

Originally published: 1957.

Newbery Medal, 1958.