Homesteaders and Indians.

Summary: A history of the long struggle for land between the homesteaders and American Indians which resulted in bloody battles, broken treaties, and confinement of the Indians on reservations.

Record details

ISBN: 0531007340
ISBN: 9780531007341
Physical Description: print
90 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm.
Publisher: New York, F. Watts ©1971.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

The Long War -- The United States Against the Indians -- Across the Wide Missouri -- The Homesteaders -- Railroads -- Sod Houses and Claim Shanties -- Crops -- The Women of the West -- Barbed Wire and Sewing Machines -- Bad Times -- Black Settlers -- Buffalo -- Cowboys and Cattlemen -- The United States Army Moves West -- Indian Resistance -- Chief Joseph and the Nez Perces -- The War Goes On -- The Last Battle -- The End of the Frontier --