From AwardAnnals
Results of the Golden Kite Nonfiction Award in the year 1992. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Long Road to Gettysburg
Jim Murphy
This well-written text describes the events of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, as seen through the eyes of two actual participants - nineteen year-old Confederate lieutenant John Dooley and seventeen year-old Union soldier Thomas Galway. This outstanding resource contains drawings, archival photographs, engravings, and maps that evoke the hardships and anxieties of battle preparation, the long days of fighting, and the treatment of wounded and dead soldiers.
An Indian Winter
Russell Freedman
Relates the experiences of a German prince, his servant, and a young Swiss artist as they traveled through the Missouri River Valley in 1833 learning about the territory and its inhabitants and recording their impressions in words and pictures.
