Long Death The Last Days of the Plains Indians

Name: Long Death The Last Days of the Plains Indians
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ISBN: 9780020302957

ISBN-10: 0020302959

ISBN-13: 9780020302957

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ralph K. Andrist, Dee Alexander Brown, Rafael D. Placios

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A narrative history of native Americans, this book describes their fight for lands on the edge of the ever-shrinking frontier of the West, and how they were betrayed time and again by the expanding white nation of the East.

Book details

List price: $12.00
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 6/2/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Ralph K. Andrist, scholar & radio journalist, is the author of "California Gold Rush", "Steamboats on the Mississippi", & "Andrew Jackson, Soldier & Statesman". He resides in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.



Introduction




As Long as the Grass Shall Grow



Massacre in Minnesota



"Let Them Eat Grass"



Murder on the Prairie



The Gate to the Valley



The State Undertaker and His Gravediggers



"Have Mercy Upon Us, O Jehovah"



Nits Make Lice



Pikes Peak Or Bust



"Kill and Destroy - Wherever Found"



"All Acquitted Themselves Well"



Give Me Eighty Men



John Bozeman's Road



Fort Philip Kearny



"Under No Circumstances Pursue Over Lodge Trail Ridge"



A State of Siege



The Great Road



General Hancock's War



"We Are Beyond All Human Aid"



Custer's First Stand



Ten Million Dead Buffalo



Philanthropists and Warriors



The Time of the Hide Hunters



The Red River War - 1874-75



Diversion in the Far West



How to Start a Small War



"Treachery Is Inherent in the Indian Character"



The Time of Retribution



Road to the Little Bighorn



The Techniques of Treaty-Breaking



Whom the Gods Would Destroy



"Come on, Dakotas, It's a Good Day to Die"



"Now, Custer, Don't Be Greedy"



"For God's Sake, Benteen, Help Me. I've Lost Half My Men"



A Victory Too Complete



The Last Small Wars



"I Love That Land More Than All the Rest of the World"



"A Number of Insubordinate, Cunning, Treacherous Indians"



Ghost Dance and Gatling Guns


Bibliography


Index