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Indian Fights in Colorado - A History and Personal Experience of the Conflict with the Plains Indians During the 19th Century (Hardcover)
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Indian Fights in Colorado - A History and Personal Experience of the Conflict with the Plains Indians During the 19th Century (Hardcover)
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The bloody Plains Indian War-by one who fought
This book was originally misleadingly titled The Indians of the
Pikes Peak Region, which may have led the uninitiated to believe it
is a work of ethnology. The author, Irving Howbert gives a short
description of the country and its fauna around Pikes Peak,
Colorado (named after the famous explorer Zebulon Pike) and also a
brief insight into the indigenous Indian tribes that occupied the
region-which was the home of the Utes who were bitter foes of the
Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes, the warriors of which would make
forays into Ute country to wage their traditional warfare. However,
the principal subject matter of Howbert's text is focussed on the
Indian Wars of the 1860s from the perspective of a pioneer,
settler, Indian fighter and volunteer in the Third Colorado Cavalry
who took part in them. Howbert's membership of the Third Colorado
put him in position to take part in one of the most notorious and
controversial episodes in American frontier history, the Battle of
Sand Creek, which if only to underline the point is also known as
the Massacre of Sand Creek. On November 29th, 1864 a 700 strong
force of Colorado and New Mexico troops, under Colonel John
Chivington, destroyed the village of Black Kettle of the Northern
Cheyenne killing many of the inhabitants. Perhaps predictably
Howbert's account reads like a pitched battle not a one sided
affair of unprovoked slaughter and it is clear he does not share
the often accepted appraisal of the event. Controversy about the
affair was already widespread before the publication of his book
and Howbert examines it in some detail. The book concludes with an
account of the Indian War of 1868.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
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