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Following the Indian Wars by Oliver Knight 1993 SC
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- ISBN
- 9780806125084
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN-10
080612508X
ISBN-13
9780806125084
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3038428498
Product Key Features
Book Title
Following the Indian Wars : the Story of the Newspaper Correspondents Among the Indian Campaigners
Number of Pages
382 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1993
Topic
United States / 19th Century, Military
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
22.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
60-008751
Reviews
"Following the Indian Wars is a good final chapter to the history of warfare between the Indians and the whites. It is not a romantic version of the struggle for the Great Plains. It is a straight account of the little known men who reported the progress of a hard and bitter war, which won the West but only at the expense of many lives and the destruction of the Indian way of life."- San Francisco Examiner, "Following the Indian Wars is a good final chapter to the history of warfare between the Indians and the whites. It is not a romantic version of the struggle for the Great Plains. It is a straight account of the little known men who reported the progress of a hard and bitter war, which won the West but only at the expense of many lives and the destruction of the Indian way of life."-- San Francisco Examiner
Dewey Decimal
973.8
Synopsis
Historians and military men have had their say about the Indian wars, which lasted from 1866 to 1891. But the newspaper correspondents who took to the field with troops now get their innings--if not the last word. And what they have to say, as revealed by Oliver Knight, himself a former newspaperman, sheds new and important light on twenty-five years of conflict extending over half a continent. Using a huge canvas, the author deploys the historical facts about more than one thousand fights between troops and Indians, the immediate, first-hand impressions of correspondents who participated in the battles and skirmishes, and his own interpretations from the combined evidence. It is as if the reader himself had gone along on these expeditions, to see what was happening, to assess the relative skill of commanders and their troops, and to share both the dangers and the relaxations of military life on the vast frontier beyond the Mississippi. The correspondents were new men, not the old Civil War hands, following troops that, in the years to come, were to be called "Old Army." Frank, uninhibited, and, above all, daring, they knew what the fighting was about, for they were in it, members of an unsupported military element far advanced into hostile territory. Their adventures are related in the twelve major campaigns of the period, ranging from the Southern Plains to the Sioux country, and from Colorado to California, and involving tribes as various as the Kiowas, Comanches, Sioux, Modocs, Utes, Cheyennes (both Northern and Southern), Apaches, Bannocks, and Nez Perc s., Using a huge canvas, the author deploys the historical facts about more than one thousand fights between troops and Indians, the immediate, first-hand impressions of correspondents who participated in the battles and skirmishes, and his own interpretations from the combined evidence. It is as if the reader himself had gone along on these expeditions, to see what was happening, to assess the relative skill of commanders and their troops, and to share both the dangers and the relaxations of military life on the vast frontier beyond the Mississippi., Historians and military men have had their say about the Indian wars, which lasted from 1866 to 1891. But the newspaper correspondents who took to the field with troops now get their innings?if not the last word. And what they have to say, as revealed by Oliver Knight, himself a former newspaperman, sheds new and important light on twenty-five years of conflict extending over half a continent. Using a huge canvas, the author deploys the historical facts about more than one thousand fights between troops and Indians, the immediate, first-hand impressions of correspondents who participated in the battles and skirmishes, and his own interpretations from the combined evidence. It is as if the reader himself had gone along on these expeditions, to see what was happening, to assess the relative skill of commanders and their troops, and to share both the dangers and the relaxations of military life on the vast frontier beyond the Mississippi. The correspondents were new men, not the old Civil War hands, following troops that, in the years to come, were to be called ?Old Army.? Frank, uninhibited, and, above all, daring, they knew what the fighting was about, for they were in it, members of an unsupported military element far advanced into hostile territory. Their adventures are related in the twelve major campaigns of the period, ranging from the Southern Plains to the Sioux country, and from Colorado to California, and involving tribes as various as the Kiowas, Comanches, Sioux, Modocs, Utes, Cheyennes (both Northern and Southern), Apaches, Bannocks, and Nez Percés.
LC Classification Number
E83.866.K58 1993
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