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The History of the American West Collection is a unique project
that provides opportunities for researchers and new readers to
easily access and explore works which have previously only been
available on library shelves. The Collection brings to life
pre-1923 titles focusing on a wide range of topics and experiences
in US Western history. From the initial westward migration, to
exploration and development of the American West to daily life in
the West and intimate pictures of the people who inhabited it, this
collection offers American West enthusiasts a new glimpse at some
forgotten treasures of American culture. Encompassing genres such
as poetry, fiction, nonfiction, tourist guides, biographies and
drama, this collection provides a new window to the legend and
realities of the American West.
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.
During The War With The Cheyennes And Arapahoes, In 1864 And 1868.
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.
The History of the American West Collection is a unique project
that provides opportunities for researchers and new readers to
easily access and explore works which have previously only been
available on library shelves. The Collection brings to life
pre-1923 titles focusing on a wide range of topics and experiences
in US Western history. From the initial westward migration, to
exploration and development of the American West to daily life in
the West and intimate pictures of the people who inhabited it, this
collection offers American West enthusiasts a new glimpse at some
forgotten treasures of American culture. Encompassing genres such
as poetry, fiction, nonfiction, tourist guides, biographies and
drama, this collection provides a new window to the legend and
realities of the American West.
During The War With The Cheyennes And Arapahoes, In 1864 And 1868.
During The War With The Cheyennes And Arapahoes, In 1864 And 1868.
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