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Author : Robert Kammen
Publisher : Leatherneck Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0977903907
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Soldiers Falling Into Camp written by Robert Kammen and published by Leatherneck Publishing. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mari Sandoz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803293199
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Crazy Horse written by Mari Sandoz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crazy Horse, the military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity set him off as "strange," fought in many famous battles, including the one at the Little Bighorn. He held out boldly against the government's efforts to confine the Sioux on reservations. Finally, in the spring of 1877 he surrendered, one of the last important chiefs to do so, only to meet a violent death. Mari Sandoz, the noted author of Cheyenne Autumn and Old Jules, both available as Bison Books, has captured the spirit of Crazy Horse with a strength and nobility befitting his heroism.
Author : Richard Jepperson
Publisher : String of Beads Publication
ISBN 13 : 9780967201221
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Two Fires in the Night written by Richard Jepperson and published by String of Beads Publication. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Office of War Information. Bureau of Intelligence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Magazine Abstracts written by United States. Office of War Information. Bureau of Intelligence and published by . This book was released on 1941-10 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Stephens Gray
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806121529
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Centennial Campaign written by John Stephens Gray and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fine book…In the twenty-two chapters that comprise the background and the campaign narrative, the author is at his best when he moves away from the Washington scene to detail the field operations. But it is the second part of the book—seven chapters labeled “Facets”—that moves Centennial Campaign into the realm of the exceptional. Here Dr. Gray combines impressive research, careful analysis, and sound deduction to reconstruct Indian movements, locations, and concentrations.”—Western Historical Quarterly
Author : Dee Alexander Brown
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803262188
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Showdown at Little Big Horn written by Dee Alexander Brown and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee provides a critical account of the events leading up to the massacre of the 7th Calvary at the Little Big Horn as told from the diverse viewpoints of the participants in the battle. Reprint.
Author : Tim Lehman
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801895006
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Bloodshed at Little Bighorn written by Tim Lehman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2011 High Plains Book Award, Nonfiction Commonly known as Custer's Last Stand, the Battle of Little Bighorn may be the best recognized violent conflict between the indigenous peoples of North America and the government of the United States. Incorporating the voices of Native Americans, soldiers, scouts, and women, Tim Lehman's concise, compelling narrative will forever change the way we think about this familiar event in American history. On June 25, 1876, General George Armstrong Custer led the United States Army's Seventh Cavalry in an attack on a massive encampment of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians on the bank of the Little Bighorn River. What was supposed to be a large-scale military operation to force U.S. sovereignty over the tribes instead turned into a quick, brutal rout of the attackers when Custer's troops fell upon the Indians ahead of the main infantry force. By the end of the fight, the Sioux and Cheyenne had killed Custer and 210 of his men. The victory fueled hopes of freedom and encouraged further resistance among the Native Americans. For the U.S. military, the lost battle prompted a series of vicious retaliatory strikes that ultimately forced the Sioux and Cheyenne into submission and the long nightmare of reservation life. This briskly paced, vivid account puts the battle's details and characters into a rich historical context. Grounded in the most recent research, attentive to Native American perspectives, and featuring a colorful cast of characters, Bloodshed at Little Bighorn elucidates the key lessons of the conflict and draws out the less visible ones. This may not be the last book you read on Little Bighorn, but it should be the first.
Author : Alicia Christensen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803234880
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Golden West written by Alicia Christensen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fifty years since its inception in 1961, the Bison Books imprint at the University of Nebraska Press has published some of the best historical, literary, and original western literature. The Golden West celebrates that continuing mission, bringing together some of the most beloved and iconic stories of the American West. Here, readers will find the classic West: from the adventures of the Corps of Discovery to the trials of the Oregon Trail, from the diverse landscapes of the Great Plains to the rugged Rocky Mountains and the Willamette Valley, from traditional Sioux culture to Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, and from the cowboys, ranchers, farmers, and mountaineers who often make up our western mythology to their American Indian counterpoints in stories about tribal society, monumental battles, and interaction with white settlers. The Golden West holds something for every reader—fiction, poetry, memoir, folklore, firsthand accounts, and all the shades of gray in between.
Author : Thomas Berger
Publisher : Dial Press
ISBN 13 : 0307788997
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Little Big Man written by Thomas Berger and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated.” So says Jack Crabb, the 111-year-old narrator of Thomas Berger’s 1964 masterpiece of American fiction, Little Big Man. Berger claimed the Western as serious literature with this savage and epic account of one man’s extraordinary double life. After surviving the massacre of his pioneer family, ten-year-old Jack is adopted by an Indian chief who nicknames him Little Big Man. As a Cheyenne, he feasts on dog, loves four wives, and sees his people butchered by horse soldiers commanded by General George Armstrong Custer. Later, living as a white man once more, he hunts the buffalo to near-extinction, tangles with Wyatt Earp, cheats Wild Bill Hickok, and fights in the Battle of Little Bighorn alongside Custer himself—a man he’d sworn to kill. Hailed by The Nation as “a seminal event,” Little Big Man is a singular literary achievement that, like its hero, only gets better with age. Praise for Little Big Man “An epic such as Mark Twain might have given us.”—Henry Miller “The very best novel ever about the American West.”—The New York Times Book Review “Spellbinding . . . [Crabb] surely must be one of the most delightfully absurd fictional fossils ever unearthed.”—Time “Superb . . . Berger’s success in capturing the points of view and emotional atmosphere of a vanished era is uncanny. His skill in characterization, his narrative power and his somewhat cynical humor are all outstanding.”—The New York Times
Author : Colin G. Calloway
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312133542
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (335 download)
Download or read book Our Hearts Fell to the Ground written by Colin G. Calloway and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology chronicles the Plains Indians' struggle to maintain their traditional way of life in the changing world of the nineteenth century. Its rich variety of 34 primary sources -- including narratives, myths, speeches, and transcribed oral histories -- gives students the rare opportunity to view the transformation of the West from Native American perspective. Calloway's introduction offers information on western expansion, territorial struggles among Indian tribes, the slaughter of the buffalo, and forced assimilation through the reservation system. More than 30 pieces of Plains Indian art are included, along with maps, headnotes, questions for consideration, a bibliography, a chronology, and an index.
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137076461
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Our Hearts Fell to the Ground written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique anthology chronicles the Plains Indians' struggle to maintain their traditional way of life in the changing world of the nineteenth century. Its rich variety of 34 primary sources - including narratives, myths, speeches, and transcribed oral histories - gives students the rare opportunity to view the transformation of the West from Native American perspective. Calloway's comprehensive introduction offers crucial information on western expansion, territorial struggles among Indian tribes, the slaughter of the buffalo, and forced assimilation through the reservation system. More than 30 pieces of Plains Indian art are included, along with maps, headnotes, questions for consideration, a bibliography, a chronology, and an index.
Author : Dale L. Walker
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466844140
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Westward written by Dale L. Walker and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American West. Just as America attracted millions to her shores by building upon a foundation of freedom, democracy, and a new start, the lands beyond the Mississippi would also attract people from all over the world with visions of opportunity and wide open spaces and provide America with legends and myths that have yet to die. In Westward, the history of the Old American West unfolds in twenty-eight original stories written especially for this unique collection that commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Western Writers of America. Featuring stories handpicked by four-time Spur Award-winning author Dale L. Walker, Westward is a time capsule of the Old American West, from the first horse ever seen by a North American Indian to a man who escaped from the Alamo, from the massacre at Mountain Meadows to Libbie Custer's great secret, from the Apache wars to the California gold rush. And such luminaries of the West as Crazy Horse, Jim Bridger, Jedediah Smith, King Fisher, Doc Holliday, Belle Starr, John Wesley Hardin, and the one black man to accompany the Lewis and Clark expedition are brought to life in these colorful and dramatic tales. Here, the ghosts of the Old West, some already there, others lured to that vast and trackless land of the setting sun, will talk to you in this volume of short stories to be treasured. Includes new short fiction by: Arthur Winfield Knight Bill Crider Bill Gulick C. F. Eckhardt Cotton Smith Dale L. Walker Dan Aadland Don Coldsmith Elaine Long Emery L. Mehok Ivon B. Blum James Reasoner Janet E. Graebner John Jakes John V. Breen Lenore Carroll Linda Sandifer Loren D. Estleman Matt Braun Michelle Black Otis Carney Richard C. House Richard S. Wheeler Riley Froh Rod Miller Susan K. Salzer Troy D. Smith Win Blevins At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Joseph Marshall
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780670038534
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (385 download)
Download or read book The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn written by Joseph Marshall and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the legendary battle, told from a Lakota perspective, documents key Lakota oral traditions to reveal the nuanced complexities that led up to and followed the conflict.
Author : James Welch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393329391
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (293 download)
Download or read book Killing Custer written by James Welch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic account of Custer\'s Last Stand that shattered themyth of the Little Bighorn and rewrote history books. This historic and personal work tells the Native American sideof Custer\'s fabled attack, poignantly revealing how disastrous theencounter was for the "victors," the last great gathering of PlainsIndians under the leadership of Sitting Bull.
Author : Win Blevins
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765314970
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (149 download)
Download or read book Stone Song written by Win Blevins and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the great warriors of Native America, Crazy Horse remains the most enigmatic. Scorned from his childhood for his light hair, he was a man who spurned the love of finery and honors so characteristic of Lakota Sioux warriors. Despite these differences, Crazy Horse led his people to their greatest victory at the Battle of the Little Big Horn where General Custer fell. Crazy Horse's entire life was a triumph of the spirit. In youth, Crazy Horse was set aside by his powerful vision of Rider, the spiritual expression of his future greatness, and by the passion and grief of his overwhelming love for a woman. It was only in battle that his heart could find rest. As his world crumbled, Crazy Horse managed to find his way in harmony with the age-old wisdom of the Lakota—and to beat the US Army on its own terms. He lived, and died, his own man.
Author : Sam W. Haynes
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786441
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Soldiers of Misfortune written by Sam W. Haynes and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical study offers “a new understanding of the human cost of the [Republic of Texas’s] vainglorious attempt to attack Mexico” (Western Historical Quarterly). The Somervell and Mier Expeditions of 1842, culminating in the famous "black bean episode" in which Texas prisoners drew white or black beans to determine who would be executed by their Mexican captors, still capture the public imagination in Texas. But were the Texans really martyrs in a glorious cause, or undisciplined soldiers defying their own government? How did the Mier Expedition affect the border disputes between the Texas Republic and Mexico? What role did Texas President Sam Houston play? In Soldiers of Misfortune, Sam W. Haynes addresses this and other important historical questions. Expertly researched yet accessible and engaging, Haynes’s narrative includes many dramatic excerpts from the diaries and letters of expedition participants./DIV
Author : Major Michael T. Grissom
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782896201
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Teutoburg Forest, Little Bighorn, And Maiwand: Why Superior Military Forces Sometimes Fail written by Major Michael T. Grissom and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Usually in history it seems that the technologically advanced society has a greater advantage in warfare than more primitive societies. For most battles this seems to hold true; however, there are exceptions to this rule. This document examines three different battles in history where a primitive, tribal force was able to decisively defeat a better-equipped, more advanced army. Following the introduction the second chapter focuses on the Romans versus Germanic tribes at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest; the third chapter investigates Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn; and the fourth chapter discusses the Battle of Maiwand in the Second Afghan War. Although each of these battles has its own unique circumstances that contributed to the victory of the primitive forces, three main themes link each of the battles. In each battle the technologically advanced army followed predictable tactics. The primitive armies employed new tactics that generally served to negate some of the technological advantages of the superior force. And finally, cultural influences played a role in strengthening the resolve to fight despite apparently poor odds. In each of the battles these factors combined with others to produce a victory over a technologically advanced foe.
