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Recounts the lives and deeds of Sitting Bull, Cochise, Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and other Indian leaders and discusses their history, customs, and daily life of many of the Indian tribes including the Kiowas, Apache, and Shoshoni.

Pictorial survey of the U.S. Army soldier's daily life in the early West, his Indian wars, Custer's last stand, etc.

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...

Chronicles the tragic saga of the Sioux nation from 1860 to the 1890 massacre through the experiences of its chiefs and warriors, allowing their voices to be heard about what befell their people.

Examines America's westward expansion, describing the forcible subjugation of Native American tribes, including the fierce battles against the Navajo which ended with a brutal siege at Canyon de Chelly and "the Long Walk" migration.

"Their heads filled with images of glory and battle, most young men joined the frontier army only to endure a life of tedious drills, bad meals, uncomfortable quarters, and ill-fitting uniforms. Working hard seven days a week in all kinds of weather, soldiers frequently found themselves lonely and bored, with little opportunity for advancement but many ways to be punished -- all for $13 a month. Focusing on the Indian Wars period of the 1840s through...

Traces the white man's conquest of the Indians of the American West, emphasizing the causes, events, and effects of the major Indian Wars leading to the symbolic end of Indian freedom at Wounded Knee.

BIOGRAPHY OF PHILIP SHERIDAN, UNION GENERAL

Details how white trappers, explorers, and pathfinders engaged in violent encounters with Indians during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, both east and west of the Mississippi River.