Great Western Indian FightsFrom 1832 to 1891 the states from the Great Lakes west to Oregon and south to Mexico saw scenes of massacre, bloody rout, amabush, fire, and pillage as the great Indian tribes--Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Sioux, Arapaho, Modoc, and Apache--fought desperately to turn back the invading white men. Recreated in this volume are twenty-odd battles crucial in the opening of the American West to white settlement. Among the battles included here are the Pierre's Hole fight, the battle of Bandera Pass, the battle of Pyramid Lake, the battle of Wood Lake, the Canyon de Chelly rout, the battles of Adobe Walls, the Fetterman, Hayfield, and Wagon Box fights, the fight at Beecher Island, the battle of the Washita, the battles of Massacre Canyon and Palo Duro Canyon, the battle of the Rosebud, the battle of the Little Bighorn, the Dull Knife massacre, and the final, tragic battle at Wounded Knee. "A fine guide to the conflict that transpired across the wide Missouri."--San Francisco Sunday Chronicle "An excellent account of most of the major fights between the white man and the Indian in. . .the western part of the United States."--Library Journal "Two dozen of the most celebrated and hair-raising Indian fights on record. Good, solid reading, and a whole peck of it."--New York Times Book Review |
Contents
THE INDIAN WARS OF THE WEST | 19 |
Fur Trading Days 1832 | 27 |
THE PIERRES HOLE FIGHT | 30 |
Under the Lone Star 1841 | 39 |
BATTLE OF BANDERA PASS | 41 |
Fighting in the Far West 185860 | 47 |
THE INDIANS HAVE AN INNING TOHOTONIMME | 50 |
THE SOLDIERS HAVE THEIRS FOUR LAKES AND SPOKANE PLAINS | 61 |
The Modoc War 187273 | 187 |
BLOOD ON THE LAVA | 190 |
The Southern Plains 1874 | 199 |
THE SECOND BATTLE OF ADOBE WALLS | 201 |
THE BATTLE OF PALO DURO CANYON | 212 |
The Northern Plains 1876 | 219 |
THE BATTLE OF THE ROSEBUD | 223 |
THE BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN | 233 |
THE BATTLE OF PYRAMID LAKE | 73 |
The Civil War Plus 186165 | 83 |
THE BATTLE OF WOOD LAKE | 86 |
CANYON DE CHELLY | 94 |
THE FIRST BATTLE OF ADOBE WALLS | 102 |
Action on the Bozeman Trail 186667 | 109 |
THE FETTERMAN FIGHT | 116 |
THE HAYFIELD FIGHT | 130 |
THE WAGON BOX FIGHT | 146 |
Post Civil War Southern Plains 1868 | 161 |
THE FIGHT AT BEECHER ISLAND | 163 |
OF THE WASHITA | 173 |
Pawnee vs Sioux 1873 | 181 |
BATTLE OF MASSACRE CANYON | 183 |
Apaches vs Apaches 187186 | 253 |
THE APACHE SCOUTS WHO WON A WAR | 255 |
Trouble in the Mountains 187779 | 265 |
THE BANNACK INDIAN WAR OF 1878 | 268 |
BESIEGED ON MILK CREEK | 279 |
The Cheyennes Go Home 1878 | 291 |
MASSACRE OF THE DULL KNIFE BAND | 293 |
The Ghost Dance 1891 | 301 |
TRAGEDY AT WOUNDED KNEE | 305 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 316 |
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Index | 327 |
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