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Author
Series
Frontier military volume 28
Publisher
Arthur H. Clark Company
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Detailed history of General Winfield Scott Hancock's 1867 "Expedition of the Plains", intended as a show of force to settle Indians angry at the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, and which disrupted U.S.-Indian relations for more than a decade.
Author
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
During the 19th century, the United States gained control over large amounts of territory in western North America, and encouraged Americans to settle these frontier lands. However, their arrival disrupted the many Native American tribes living in the West, resulting in numerous clashes and small conflicts throughout the region. Many of the so-called Indian Wars occurred during the period between 1866 and 1890, as the U.S. government attempted to...
Author
Publisher
Britannica Educational Publishing, in association with Rosen Educational Services
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The romantic myth of America's frontier that many people encounter in the media is only part of the story of the nation's expansion in the nineteenth century. This book illustrates the push by European settlers and the federal government ever westward, and its effects on indigenous peoples. Through primary source historical images and the tragic narrative of broken treaties, relocations, and armed conflict, it brings the inspiring resistance and fight...
Author
Publisher
Scholarly Resources
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
They were U.S. army officers. Just a few years earlier, some had been slaves. Several thousand African Americans served as soldiers in the Indian Wars and in the Cuban campaign of the Spanish-American War in the latter part of the nineteenth century. They were known as buffalo soldiers, believed to have been named by Indians who had seen a similarity between the coarse hair and dark skin of the soldiers and the coats of the buffalo. Twenty-three of...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 1871, Santanta, a Kiowa war chief, boasted at the Kiowa-Comanche Agency that he had led a war party against a wagon train of freighters. When he repeated his boast to General W. T. Sherman, who was on a tour of frontier forts, the order was given for his arrest, along with two other chiefs who were implicated. The killing, torture, and mutilation of the freighters was said to have been a ghastly crime. But never before had members of an Indian...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Riding With Cochise brings the violent drama of the American Southwest to life through the eyes of the legendary Apache chieftain Cochise and three other tribal leaders, Geronimo, Victorio, and Mangas Coloradas. Relying largely on the oral histories told by relatives of these great warriors as well as personal diaries of others who were involved, veteran author Steve Price takes the reader deep into the Cochise Stronghold, through Massacre Canyon,...
193) Tecumseh: a life
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A biography of legendary Shawnee chieftain Tecumseh, providing information about every stage of his life, and focusing on his efforts to unite the diverse North American tribes in a stand against the encroaching United States.
Author
Publisher
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...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Lakota chief Crazy Horse and Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer had long been enemies when they finally crossed paths for the last time in 1876, as the people of the Great Plains resisted the invasion of their homes. Witness reports and reflections by their peers accompany side-by-side storytelling, revealing different perspectives on the historical events during their intertwined lives
198) The American West
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Documents the history of the American West including the pioneers who explored and settled it, the legendary outlaws who terrorized it, and the Native American struggle against European settlers and the U.S. government.