The Terrible Indian Wars Of The West

Author : Jerry Keenan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786499403

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The Terrible Indian Wars of the West by Jerry Keenan Pdf

Expansion! The history of the United States might well be summed up in that single word. The Indian Wars of the American West were a continuation of the struggle that began with the arrival of the first Europeans, and escalated as they advanced across the Appalachians before American independence had been won. This history of the Indian Wars of the Trans-Mississippi begins with the earliest clashes between Native Americans and Anglo-European settlers. The author provides a comprehensive narrative of the conflict in eight parts, covering eight geographical regions--the Pacific Northwest; California and Nevada; New Mexico, the Central Plains, the Southern Plains; Iowa, Minnesota and the Northern Plains; the Intermountain West, and the Desert Southwest--with an epilogue on Wounded Knee.

Author : Paul Iselin Wellman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 0880298340

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The Indian Wars of the West by Paul Iselin Wellman Pdf

Captures a time when the issue of supremacy was decided by bullets and arrows, the record of a terrible and bloody struggle, of the spirit of those days, the action, the suffering, the heroism and the despair.

Author : Peter Cozzens
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307958051

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The Earth Is Weeping by Peter Cozzens Pdf

Bringing together Custer, Sherman, Grant, and other fascinating military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Geronimo, this “sweeping work of narrative history” (San Francisco Chronicle) is the fullest account to date of how the West was won—and lost. After the Civil War the Indian Wars would last more than three decades, permanently altering the physical and political landscape of America. Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates the intertribal strife over whether to fight or make peace; explores the dreary, squalid lives of frontier soldiers and the imperatives of the Indian warrior culture; and describes the ethical quandaries faced by generals who often sympathized with their native enemies. In dramatically relating bloody and tragic events as varied as Wounded Knee, the Nez Perce War, the Sierra Madre campaign, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, we encounter a pageant of fascinating characters, including Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of officers, soldiers, and Indian agents, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud and the warriors they led. The Earth Is Weeping is a sweeping, definitive history of the battles and negotiations that destroyed the Indian way of life even as they paved the way for the emergence of the United States we know today.

Author : Gregory Michno
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870044878

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The Deadliest Indian War in the West by Gregory Michno Pdf

Gregroy Michno, author of several critically acclaimed books on America's Indian wars, gives readers the first comprehensive look at the natives, soldiers and settlers who clashed on the high desert of Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Oregon and Northern California in a struggle that, over a four-year period, claimed more lives than any other western Indian War.

Author : Michael L. Nunnally
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476604466

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American Indian Wars by Michael L. Nunnally Pdf

On June 3, 1513, ships commanded by Juan Ponce de Leon were attacked by a group of Calusa Indians in one of the first hostile encounters recorded between Europeans and American Indians. Over the next four centuries, fundamental differences would cause these two disparate cultures to clash numerous times with untold loss of life and property. From the 1500s through 1901, this comprehensive reference book details individual armed conflicts between Native Americans and Europeans. Chronologically arranged entries include information such as origin of the European party, Indian tribe involved (if known), location of the skirmish and number of casualties. The establishments of various forts are also given within the chronology. An appendix provides a brief summary of related events after 1901.

Author : Peter Cozzens
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307948182

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The Earth Is Weeping by Peter Cozzens Pdf

Bringing together Custer, Sherman, Grant, and other fascinating military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Geronimo, this “sweeping work of narrative history” (San Francisco Chronicle) is the fullest account to date of how the West was won—and lost. After the Civil War the Indian Wars would last more than three decades, permanently altering the physical and political landscape of America. Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates the intertribal strife over whether to fight or make peace; explores the dreary, squalid lives of frontier soldiers and the imperatives of the Indian warrior culture; and describes the ethical quandaries faced by generals who often sympathized with their native enemies. In dramatically relating bloody and tragic events as varied as Wounded Knee, the Nez Perce War, the Sierra Madre campaign, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, we encounter a pageant of fascinating characters, including Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of officers, soldiers, and Indian agents, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud and the warriors they led. The Earth Is Weeping is a sweeping, definitive history of the battles and negotiations that destroyed the Indian way of life even as they paved the way for the emergence of the United States we know today.

Author : Mark Felton
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752496627

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Today Is a Good Day to Fight by Mark Felton Pdf

Blood, guts, dust and hatred: the real history of the American West. Today is a Good Day to Fight covers the period from the initial penetration of the region by settlers and prospectors in the 1840s until the end of the Indian Wars in the 1890s. It explains the history of white-Indian conflict from the military point of view, showing how the United States used its army to wage terrible wars of conquest upon Native American peoples in order to take the land from them and enrich the growing nation, and how the Indians never really stood a chance in trying to defend their homelands. Highlighting the fractious and bitter relations between tribes unable and unwilling to unite in time to stave off their common enemy, it tries to portray the utter bitterness of the conflict between white and Indian, and how both sides resorted to increasingly foul acts of war and slaughter as the conflict progressed. A dirty, underhanded and scrappy conflict, the outrages committed by both sides fuelled bitterness and resentment that still exists in America today.

Author : John Dishon McDermott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Battlefields
ISBN : 0739401742

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A Guide to the Indian Wars of the West by John Dishon McDermott Pdf

A history of the wars that the United States conducted against Native Americans from 1860 to 1890 explores the causes and consequences, investigates the different responses of tribes to the conflict, and profiles key figures. The book's second part details the many battlefields and other historic sites associated with the Indian wars.

Author : J. P. Dunn
Publisher : Digital Scanning Inc
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781582182759

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Massacres of the Mountains Volume 1 of 2 by J. P. Dunn Pdf

J.P. Dunn wrote Massacres of the Mountains in an attempt to separate historical fact from sensational fiction and to verify the problems that plagued the Indian tribes in this country for years. He doesn't assign blame, but lets it fall where it belongs by meticulous research and the accurate, unbiased depiction of the true causes and subsequent results of some of the most famous Indian conflicts. Each chapter includes a list of authorities as well as original source documents and evidence relating to the subject. Volume 2 ISBN is 9781582182766

Author : Paul I. Wellman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494116189

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The Indian Wars of the West by Paul I. Wellman Pdf

This is a new release of the original 1954 edition.

Author : Wills De Hass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : NYPL:33433081882866

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History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western Virginia by Wills De Hass Pdf

Author : Timothy Flint
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : History
ISBN : NYPL:33433081746574

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Indian Wars of the West by Timothy Flint Pdf

Author : John William Tebbel,Keith Warren Jennison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0785815961

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The American Indian Wars by John William Tebbel,Keith Warren Jennison Pdf

Before the white man came, the vast region that is now the United States was inhabited by one million Native Americans, organized into six hundred distinct societies and scattered from the desolate ice wastes of the Far North to the hot swamps of the South; from the great forests of the East to the plains and deserts of the West. The first meetings between the Natives and white men in the southeast and along the Atlantic coast were not important historically in themselves, but they kindled the sparks that were to burn savagely for hundreds of years. The Native nations, living in peace and prosperity for the most part, despite intermittent but limited intertribal warfare, learned that the white invaders could not be trusted, and that their object was not the peaceful intercourse of trade, which the Natives offered them, but flagrant conquest. After four centuries of nearly continuous warfare, from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries, the Native Americans have been reduced numerically to less than 400,000, with their lands gone and their homes a series of reservations in, for the most part, the western United States. This book tells the story of their battle against the invaders of their land, and the price they were to pay for their ultimate defeat. Book jacket.

Author : Jason Hook,Martin Pegler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 0760787026

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To Live and Die in the West by Jason Hook,Martin Pegler Pdf

Author : Sherry Marker
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781438100111

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Plains Indian Wars, Updated Edition by Sherry Marker Pdf

Greed, misunderstanding, and resentment characterized the relationship between early white settlers moving west and the Native American peoples of the Great Plains. As whites delved further into western territory, the U.S. government attempted to quell N