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Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
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This is a new release of the original 1949 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1954 edition.
Buckskin Clad Scout, Indian Fighter, Plainsman, Cowboy, Hunter,
Guide And Actor, And His Wife Morlacchi, Premier Danseuse In Satin
Slippers.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
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Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
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"Death on the Prairie" is a sweeping narrative history of the
Indian wars on the western plains that never loses sight of the
individual actors. Beginning with the Minnesota Sioux Uprising in
1862, Paul I. Wellman shifts to conflicts in present-day Wyoming,
Montana, Idaho, Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, and South Dakota,
involving, most spectacularly, the Sioux, but also the Cheyennes,
Arapahos, Comanches, Kiowas, Utes, and Nez Perces--all being ezed
out of their hunting grounds by white settlers. There is never a
quiet page as Wellman describes the Sand Creek Massacre (1864), the
Fetterman Massacre (1866), the Battle of the Washita (1868), the
Battle of Adobe Walls (1874), the Battle of the Little Big Horn
(1876), the Nez Perce War (1877), the Meeker Massacre (1879), and
the tragedy at wounded Knee (1890) that ended the fighting on the
plains. Celebrated chiefs (Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Black Kettle,
Satanta, Joseph, Ouray, Sitting Bull) clash with army officers
(notably Custer, Sheridan, Miles, and Crook), and uncounted men,
women, and children on both sides are cast in roles of fatal
consequence.
In the centuries of war between Indians and whites one episode is
surely epical: the flight of the Nez Perce. Provoked by bad
treaties and bitter memories, in 1877 a few Nez Perce raided
homesteads in Idaho and killed their inhabitants. The raid quickly
escalated into a series of skirmishes, and at last involved Chief
Joseph and the ablest Nez Perce warriors in a prolonged chase by
the army for over a thousand miles through Idaho, Montana, and
Wyoming. The band of Nez Perce astonished military experts by their
tactical ingenuity, swift maneuvers, daring, and endurance. By the
time the chase concluded, barely forty miles from the Canadian
border, the Nez Perce had left behind a record of heroic
sacrifices, spectacular escapes, and incredible courage.
The Apache Indians and the white settlers came face to face after
the Mexican War, when the migrations across the continent reached
the Southwest. In depicting the long, bitter resistance of the
Apaches, Death in the Desert reveals incidents that provoked their
undying hatred of whites. This rousing narrative history by Paul I.
Wellman begins in 1837 with the rise to tribal leadership of Mangas
Coloradas and ends in 1886 with the surrender of Geronimo. For a
half century the dust never settles as U.S. troops fight the
Apaches in Arizona and New Mexico and defeat the single uprisings
of the Navajos and Pueblos. Two chapters describe the Modoc War in
northern California from 1871 to 1873.
The organized gangs of robbers and killers who roamed the Midwest
and Southwest from the 1860s to the 1930s went to the same school
and were succored by each other's notoriety. So Paul I. Wellman
makes a case for "the contagious nature of crime." William
Quantrill and his guerrillas established a criminal tradition that
was to link the James, Dalton, Doolin, Jennings, and Cook gangs;
Belle and Henry Starr; Pretty Boy Floyd; and others in "a long and
crooked train of unbroken personal connections."
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