An absorbing and comprehensive work, INDIAN WARS recounts the violent conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers that lasted more than three hundred years, the effects of which still resonate today. Here, the widely respected historians Robert Utley and Wilcomb Washburn examine both small battles and major wars -- from the Native rebellion of 1492, to Crazy Horse and the Sioux War, to the massacre at Wounded Knee. This volume contains a new introduction by Robert Utley.
Examines the battles and treaties between native peoples and early European settlers of what was to become the United States, as conflicts arose primarily over land, but also over food and other issues.
This is the fourth volume in a planned five-volume series that will tell the saga of the military struggle for the American West in the words of the soldiers, noncombatants, and Native Americans who shaped it.
The heart rending account of the white man's conquest of the American Indian from 1500-1900 which shows how they were physically overwhelmed but never successfully enslaved.
This history book provides information on the land of the Indians, the tribes, and wars fought between the local tribes and pilgrims of French and English descent for the period of one century.
A look at the Indian wars in the closing decades of the 19th century that ended the American Indian's way of life.
Their captains were Van Swearingen, John Hardin and Samuel Brady. Captain Samuel Brady's Revenge Soon after Samuel Brady was appointed one of the leaders of Brodhead's scouts, he received another crushing blow. On April 11th, 1779, ...
Volume 1. Topography of Indian Tribes. The Early Settler and the Indian. The Pequod War. Wars of the Mohegans.
The History of the Indian Wars in New England
Lieutenant Colonel Edward J. Steptoe's escape from encirclement by 1,000 Northern Plateau Indians in 1858 is a familiar story from the Indian Wars.
Robert Dinwiddie, the determined sixty-year-old governor of Virginia, saw which way the wind was blowing, and in October 1753, sent a twenty-one-year-old militia major named George Washington to the recently begun Fort Le Boeuf (now ...