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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades. Bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through the fraught...
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Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Between 1803 and 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark co-captained the most famous expedition in American history. But, while Lewis ended his life just three years later, Clark, as the highest-ranking Federal official in the West, spent three decades overseeing its consequences: Indian removal and the destruction of Native America. In a rare combination of storytelling and scholarship, best-selling author Landon Y. Jones presents for the first...
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English
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a comprehensive history of the achievements and failures of the United States Regular and Volunteer Armies that confronted the Indian tribes of the West in the two decades between the Mexican War and the close of the Civil War. Between 1848 and 1865 the men in blue fought nearly all of the western tribes.
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Publisher
TwoDot
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The story of conflict on the Santa Fe Trail during its heyday-the years leading up to the Civil War. The clashes between the Jicarilla and the U.S. Army shaped the story of Western expansion, influenced Indian policy for the rest of the century, and played a part in the Mexican-America War. Men like the legendary Kit Carson were at the heart of the events