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Author : John Wesley Wilbarger
Publisher : Eakin Press
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : UCD:31175031350468
This volume, first published in 1889, is one of the most thorough accounts of Indian warfare in Texas.
Author : John Wesley Wilbarger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : OCLC:1039351444
Reliable accounts of battles, wars, adventures, forays, murders, and massacres together with biographical sketches of many of the most noted Indian fighters and frontiersmen of Texas.
Author : John Henry Brown
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9783849674458
The book leads the reader through the past to the present and here leaves him amid active and progressive men who are advancing, along with him, toward the future. Including, as it does, lives of men now living, it constitutes a connecting link between what has gone before and what is to come after. It is therefore fitting that it should be dedicated to a prominent man of our day in preference to one of former times. The matter presented, in the nature of things, is largely biographical. There can be no foundation for history without biography. History is a generalization of particulars. It presents wide extended views. To use a paradox, history gives us but a part of history. That other part which it does not give us, the part which introduces us to the thoughts, aspirations and daily life of a people, is supplied by biography. The men whose deeds are recorded in this book were or are deeply identified with Texas, and the preservation in this volume in enduring form of some remembrance of them—their names, who and what they were—has been a pleasant task to one who feels a deep interest and pride in Texas—its past history, its heroes and future destiny.
Author : J.W. Wilbarger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
"Reliable accounts of battles, wars, adventures, forays, murders, massacres, etc., etc, together with biographical sketches of many of the most noted Indian fighters and frontiersmen of Texas."
Author : J. W. Wilbarger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519661665
This is a history of the conflict between whites and Native Americans in Texas, written from a white point of view. From the preface: "I FEEL that for those who will read the description of the conflicts and Indian cruelty contained in this volume some preface which will introduce the author to his readers and which will explain the motives which inspired him to write this book is needed. I came to Texas over half a century ago, and am now an old man, the only survivor of three brothers who served Texas in her early struggles. Josiah Wilbarger, who was scalped by the Indians a few miles east of where the capitol of Texas now is, was my brother. He survived, as this book relates, the massacre of his companions, but afterwards died from a disease of the skull caused by injuries. Having spent the prime of my life among the pioneers of Texas, and therefore knowing personally about many of the fights and massacres described in this volume, the idea occurred to me many years ago that when the early settlers were all dead their posterity would only know from tradition the perils and hardships encountered in the early settlement of Texas. When I found that no one else seemed inclined to preserve in history the story of massacres and conflicts with Indians, I undertook the work myself. During some twenty years I have carefully obtained from the lips of those who knew most of the facts stated in this volume. For their general correctness I can vouch, for I knew personally most of the early settlers of Texas, and have relied on those only whom I believed to be trustworthy. Many of the articles contained in this book were written by others, who were either cognizant of the facts themselves or bad obtained their data from reliable sources."
Author : Felipe A. Latorre,Dolores L. Latorre
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486148526
Fascinating anthropological study of a group of Kickapoo Indians who left their Wisconsin homeland for Mexico over a century ago. "...an excellent work..." — American Indian Quarterly. 26 illustrations. Map. Index.
Author : J. W. Wilbarger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : LCCN:91019253
Reliable accounts of battles, wars, adventures, forays, murders, and massacres together with biographical sketches of many of the most noted Indian fighters and frontiersmen of Texas.
Author : A. J Sowell
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547733720
"Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas" is a history book which describes Indian fights and the activities of many famous Texas Rangers on the frontier of Texas during the late 19th century, including information about Texas Ranger Bigfoot Wallace, Henri Castro, the founder of Castroville, and Mrs. Hannah Berry's description of her encounters with Davy Crockett and Josiah Wilbarger.
Author : Herman Lehmann
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547733393
Nine Years Among the Indians is an autobiography of Herman Lehmann, who was an eleven-year-old boy when he was captured by a raiding party of eight to ten Apaches alongside his older brother Willie. The Apaches called Lehmann "En Da" (White Boy). He spent about six years with them and became assimilated into their culture, rising to the position of petty chief. As a young warrior, one of his most memorable battles was a running fight with the Texas Rangers on August 24, 1875, which took place near Fort Concho, about 65 miles west of the site of San Angelo, Texas.The phenomenon of a white child raised by Indians made Herman Lehmann a notable figure in the United States.
Author : Gary Clayton Anderson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 789 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806164410
This is not your grandfather’s history of Texas. Portraying nineteenth-century Texas as a cauldron of racist violence, Gary Clayton Anderson shows that the ethnic warfare dominating the Texas frontier can best be described as ethnic cleansing. The Conquest of Texas is the story of the struggle between Anglos and Indians for land. Anderson tells how Scotch-Irish settlers clashed with farming tribes and then challenged the Comanches and Kiowas for their hunting grounds. Next, the decade-long conflict with Mexico merged with war against Indians. For fifty years Texas remained in a virtual state of war. Piercing the very heart of Lone Star mythology, Anderson tells how the Texas government encouraged the Texas Rangers to annihilate Indian villages, including women and children. This policy of terror succeeded: by the 1870s, Indians had been driven from central and western Texas. By confronting head-on the romanticized version of Texas history that made heroes out of Houston, Lamar, and Baylor, Anderson helps us understand that the history of the Lone Star state is darker and more complex than the mythmakers allowed.
Author : John Wesley Wilbarger
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547789833
"Indian Depredations in Texas" is the most thorough compilation of accounts of Indian warfare in the19th century Texas. It is an excellent sourcebook for those seeking to discover the truth about the early days of settling Texas. The author chronicled the true story of life in early Texas. The struggle between the settlers, who sought to tame the land and the Native Americans who ruled the land, were waged on a daily basis. The results were often conflicts and clashes which were described in detail in this volume.
Author : Ernest Thompson Seaton
Publisher : anboco
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736407206
In offering this book to the public after having had the manuscript actually on my desk for more than nine years, let me say frankly that no one realizes better than myself, now, the magnitude of the subject and the many faults of my attempt to handle it. My attention was first directed to the Sign Language in 1882 when I went to live in Western Manitoba. There I found it used among the various Indian tribes as a common language, whenever they were unable to understand each other's speech. In later years I found it a daily necessity when traveling among the natives of New Mexico and Montana, and in 1897, while living among the Crow Indians at their agency near Fort Custer, I met White Swan, who had served under General George A. Custer as a Scout. He had been sent across country with a message to Major Reno, so escaped the fatal battle; but fell in with a party of Sioux, by whom he was severely wounded, clubbed on the head, and left for dead. He recovered and escaped, but ever after was deaf and practically dumb. However, sign-talk was familiar to his people and he was at little disadvantage in daytime. Always skilled in the gesture code, he now became very expert; I was glad indeed to be his pupil, and thus in 1897 began seriously to study the Sign Language. In 1900 I included a chapter on Sign Language in my projected Woodcraft Dictionary, and began by collecting all the literature. There was much more than I expected, for almost all early travellers in our Western Country have had something to say about this lingua franca of the Plains. As the material continued to accumulate, the chapter grew into a Dictionary, and the work, of course, turned out manifold greater than was expected. The Deaf, our School children, and various European nations, as well as the Indians, had large sign vocabularies needing consideration.
Author : James W. Parker,Rachel Plummer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519039182
On May 19, 1836, Fort Parker in Texas was overwhelmed by a band of Comanche Indians. Some residents were brutally murdered, others taken prisoner.Among those captured was eleven year old Cynthia Parker, who would remain with the Comanche for 24 years and give birth to famed Chief Quanah.Another captive was 17-year-old Rachel Plummer, mother of one, pregnant with her second child. She would soon have her first-born ripped from her arms, never to be seen again, and later watched as her second-born was killed before her eyes.After twenty-one months of captivity that destroyed her health, she was purchased and returned to her family. In this extraordinary account, her father tells of that horrible day when the fort was attacked, and his desperate efforts to find and retrieve the captives. Rachel details her terrible enslavement and how she eventually fought back.
Author : Gregory Michno
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870045028
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press During the decades from 1820 to 1870, the American frontier expanded two thousand miles across the trans-Mississippi West. In Texas the frontier line expanded only about two hundred miles. The supposedly irresistible European force met nearly immovable Native American resistance, sparking a brutal struggle for possession of Texas’s hills and prairies that continued for decades. During the 1860s, however, the bloodiest decade in the western Indian wars, there were no large-scale battles in Texas between the army and the Indians. Instead, the targets of the Comanches, the Kiowas, and the Apaches were generally the homesteaders out on the Texas frontier, that is, precisely those who should have been on the sidelines. Ironically, it was these noncombatants who bore the brunt of the warfare, suffering far greater losses than the soldiers supposedly there to protect them. It is this story that The Settlers’ War tells for the first time.
Author : S. C. Gwynne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416597155
*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award* This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West “is nothing short of a revelation…will leave dust and blood on your jeans” (The New York Times Book Review). Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches. Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled backward by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands. The war with the Comanches lasted four decades, in effect holding up the development of the new American nation. Gwynne’s exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads, and the amazing story of Cynthia Ann Parker and her son Quanah—a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being. Hailed by critics, S. C. Gwynne’s account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told. Empire of the Summer Moon announces him as a major new writer of American history.
