This is a new release of the original 1954 edition.
Traces the history of the U.S. Army's campaign against the Native American population during the nineteenth century, describing major battles and legendary figures on both sides.
Army officer John G. Bourke , writing in The Nation in 1890 , noted that medicine men of American tribes were not the frauds and charlatans that many whites believed . They were repositories of all ...
Two Great Scouts and Their Pawnee Battalion: The Experiences of Frankj, and Luther H. North, Pioneers of the Great West, 1856–1862, and Their Defence of the ... Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark, 1928. ... Hassrick, Royal B. The Sioux.
... A. J., 162,228,229,230 Boyd, Allen, 247 Brackett, AlbertG., 129, 148, 207, 283, 285 Brady, George K., 175, 282, ... 267 Brother Jonathan, 116 Brougham, FrederickP., 183, 225, 317 Brown, Benjamin, 13 Brown, David P., 149 Brown, Sgt., ...
Indian Wars of the West: Containing Biographical Sketches of Those Pioneers who Headed the Western Settlers in Repelling the Attacks...
Acclaimed independent history scholar Gregory Michno has created a chronological listing of every significant fight between Indians and the United States Army, as well as better-known Indian battles with civilian emigrants.
Other revolvers abounded andLe Mat, Starr and multi-barrelled pepperbox pistols were also used. One disadvantage of the percussion pistols was their need to be kept dry to prevent powder and caps from becoming waterlogged.
This newest volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history.
Pinkney 74 Luna, Ramon 99 Lupton, James 32 Lupton's Exterminators 38 Lyman, Capt. Wyllys 238 Lynde, Maj. Isaac 127,410 Lyon, Gov. Caleb 75 Lyon, Capt. Robert 67 MacArthur, Gen. Douglas 328 Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell 241 Mackenzie, ...
W. H. Ashley, with two keelboats of supplies, are attacked by Arikara Indians but escape. A number of Smith's men are killed, including Reed Gibson and John Gardiner. Hugh Glass writes Gardiner's parents, “the deth of yr Son whbefell at ...