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Title Great western Indian fights / by members of the Potomac Corral of The Westerners ; edited by the Publications Committee, B.W. Allred [and others]
Published Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, 1966, ©1960

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Description 1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations, maps
Summary Annotation From 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
Notes A Bison book
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-326) and index
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Subject Indians of North America -- Wars.
Indians of North America -- West (U.S.)
HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
HISTORY.
Indians of North America
Indians of North America -- Wars
West United States
Form Electronic book
Author Allred, B. W. (Berten Wendell), 1904-
Westerners. Potomac Corral.
ISBN 0585325146
9780585325149