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Crimsoned prairie : the Indian wars / by S.L.A. Marshall ; sketches by the author ; maps by Mark Lennox.
Here is the story of the Indian wars on the Great Plains told by America's foremost writer on military affairs. The long war between America's slapdash and neglected post Civil War army and the Sioux, Cheyenne, and other Plains Indians has been covered in many books; but this is the first book to provide a thorough-going analysis of military tactics. In all the literature on the Plains Wars, there is almost no agreement about statistics, relative losses, or even troop numbers. Keeping accurate records in the field has never been one of the strengths of the United States Army, and the commands that fought the Plains Indians were particularly careless. General Marshall has visited the sites of the principal battlefields of the twenty-five-year -long war, and has pieced together from the geography and the often-conflicting battle reports a realistic account of what probably did happen. He tells the story of the wars with the Nez Perce and of Chief Joseph's battle against federal troops; provides a new analysis of Custer's last stand from a military point of view, showing what Custer did wrong; reconstructs the battle of Wounded Knee, reminding us that an actual battle took place there - - it was not just an unprovoked massacre. While today's vogue is to lament the wars against the Plains Indians, and all wars, as monstrous crimes, Marshall reminds us that this is a vogue: Not all Indians were virtuous and trustworthy; not all white men were greedy and unscrupulous.
Record details
- ISBN: 0306802260 (pbk.) :
- ISBN: 9780306802263 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xiv, 256 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm.
- Edition: Da Capo Press pbk. ed.
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Da Capo Press, 1984, c1972.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : Scribner, c1972.Includes index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 1. The westward barrier -- 2. The signs of storm -- 3. Massacre and war -- 4. The march of the wood soldiers -- 5. Marching through Indians -- 6. Chiefs against generals -- 7. Custer and the great design -- 8. The look of crook -- 9. Custer's last stand -- 10. Dismal aftermath -- 11. Thunder in the mountains -- 12. On Wounded Knee
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