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| Rifles for Watie | 
 enlarge | Author: Harold Keith
Publisher: HarperTeen
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (87 reviews)
Sales Rank: 85529
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Harper Trophy Ed
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 4.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 006447030X
EAN: 9780064470308
ASIN: 006447030X
Publication Date: October 31, 1987
Release Date: September 25, 1987
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 Rifles for Watie January 5, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Rifles for Watie is a book that i will never forget.It has action and suspense with occasional drama. The book makes you want to keep reading until your done. Even then you want to know what happens next. I could read this book time and time again without thinking that it ever got old or boring. It is truly one of the best books I have ever read!
 Not as good as I remembered -- but ... December 15, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I actually went back and re-read "Rifles for Watie" several months ago, more than 40 years after I had first encountered it. (It won the 1958 Newberry Award for children's literature and was a hot item in my elementary school library.) In reading the book as an adult, I was disappointed in the episodic construction of Harold Keith's narrative. He makes some big leaps as he jumps along through the Civil War; in some cases, several months pass between one chapter and the next. This weakens the development of the characters, in particular the youthful focus of the book, Jeff Bussey. At the end of the novel, despite his four years of experience as a combat soldier, spy, and lover, there is little sense that this teenager matures or changes. Even without war, and even sequestered in college, most kids do a fair amount of growing up between ages 18 and 22. At the end of a terrible war, Jeff seems to be as callow and even innocent as he was in his recruit days.
This failing, however, probably won't matter to the young audience for whom Keith was writing back in the 1950s. The book reflects the sensibilities of that era, especially in the equal regard in which Keith holds the supporters of both the Union and the Confederacy. Jefferson Davis Bussey, a Union soldier (named by his father after a respected Mexican War comrade from Mississippi!), learns to like and respect his Confederate adversaries, and he falls in love with a Rebel girl. The only real villain in the story is a Union officer. Even in the 21st century, younger readers (ages 8-14) will likely identify with Jeff and his perspective on the events of the 1860s. They also will enjoy Keith's colorful description of battles and soldiering, as well as the more sober scenes of the war's cruelty and destruction.
When "Rifles for Watie" was first published, it revealed to many Americans, including a lot of Civil War scholars, that the conflict had been irrepressible west of the Mississippi as well as in the East. Keith doesn't really deal with all the causes and ramifications of the war in the Indian Territory, and a search of the amazon.com website reveals many more recent scholarly books about the subject. But for readers young and old, "Rifles for Watie" still can be a painless introduction to the topic -- for all of that episodic narrative, it's still a Good Read.
Exciting and Educational December 9, 2005
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is my favorite book ever. I first encountered Rifles for Watie when my fifth grade teacher read it aloud to our class. I read the book again several times while growing up. As an adult I read the book every 5 years or so. At the age of 40 it's still magic to me. Please share the Civil War adventures of Jefferson Davis Bussey with your children!
Rifles for Watie June 7, 2005
Rifles for Watie
"Jeff Bussey is probably the only soldier to fight the civil war from both sides - and understand each of them."
The union. Stars and stripes. All are equal.
The rebel confederates. Evil. Slavery.
Jefferson Davis Bussey wanted to go to the army ever since president Lincoln made a speech in Linn County, Kansas, in 1861. His dad had fought in the Mexican war and had been in the army.
"Pa, I want to go to Fort Leavenworth tomorrow and join the volunteers." Jeff said. After the two Missouri bushwhackers invaded his house and tried to kill his father, he knew he had to do something. The next day, he enlisted in the Union infantry, where he marched day and night with his friends John Chadwick, David Gardner, and Noah Babbitt. Although these are only some of his companions.
Jeff doesn't know it, but he is going to become an important soldier in the Union and Confederate ranks. He is sent to spy behind the enemy's lines. General Blunt needs information on Stand Watie's cavalry and Sergeant Cooper's infantry. If he's caught he'll be shot, but the worst danger of his discovery is that all the Confederates - even Stand Watie - are men with admiral qualities. On top of that, he falls in love with a rebel girl named Lucy. Jeff is forced to make a choice - to escape the enemy or join it.
by Ricky
Spectacular Historical Fiction June 26, 2004
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I first read this delightful novel in 1968 or 1969. It continues to be one of my favorite books. Historian and former OU sports information director Harold Keith actually makes history "fun" for teenagers with this award-winning tale, as RIFLES FOR WAITIE gives readers a full account of the brutal Civil War campaign in the Indian Territories of the frontier.At the heart of Keith's story is young Jeff Bussey, who joins a regiment of Kansas volunteers as a 16-year-old, idealistic adventure seeker. Jeff's idealism is short-lived once he confronts the horrors and barbarism of war; it is replaced by disillusionment, bitterness, fear. Although written in the Fifties, Keith cuts no corners in portraying the brutality of the Civil War in Oklahoma Territory; the reader can smell the smoke, hear the deafening roar of cannon, feel the bullets whistle past. And as young Jeff matures. . .becomes a battle-hardened survivor. . .he is sent on an assignment behind enemy lines--only to discover the men he is fighting are just like him: cold, tired, hungry, and ready to go home. Wonderfully written and flawlessly paced, RIFLES FOR WAITIE is an absorbing read. Highly recommended for teenagers or history buffs wanting to learn more about the Civil War in Oklahoma.
--D. Mikels
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