Death on the Prairie: The Thirty Years' Struggle for the Western PlainsA sweeping narrative history of the Indian wars on the western plains. Beginning with the Minnesota Sioux Uprising in 1862, Wellman shifts to conflicts involving the Sioux, Cheyennes, Arapahos, Comanches, Kiowas, Utes, and Nez Perces-all squeezed out of their hunting grounds by white settlers. |
Contents
CHAPTER | 3 |
II | 14 |
THE ARMY TAKES THE FIELD | 112 |
THE GREATEST VICTORY | 147 |
WANING OF THE RED STAR | 162 |
NEVER SELL THE BONES OF YOUR FATHER | 183 |
ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS | 191 |
WITHOUT BENEFIT OF MILITARY | 211 |
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