Book
The long death : the last days of the Plains Indian
Record details
- ISBN: 0020302959
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Physical Description:
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ix, 371 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm - Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Macmillan, [1964]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-357). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | pt. 1. As long as the grass shall grow -- pt. 2. 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" -- pt. 3. Nits make lice. Pikes peak or bust -- "Kill and destroy -- wherever found" -- "All acquitted themselves well" -- pt. 4. Give me eighty men. John Bozeman's road -- Fort Philip Kearny -- "Under no circumstances pursue over Lodge Trail Ridge" -- A state of siege -- pt. 5. The great road. General Hancock's war -- "We are beyond all human aid" -- Custer's first stand -- pt. 6. Ten million dead buffalo. Philanthropists and warriors -- The time of the hide hunters -- The Red River War -- 1874-1875 -- pt. 7. Diversion in the Far West. How to start a small war -- "Treachery is inherent in the indian character" -- The time of retribution -- pt. 8. The road to the Little Bighorn. The techniques of treaty-breaking -- Whome the Gods would destroy -- "Come on, Dakotas, its a good way 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 -- pt. 9. 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. |
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| Subject: | Indians of North America Wars Great Plains Indians of North America Great Plains History 19th century |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | E 78 .G73 A53 1964 | 249207 | Stacks | Available | - |
| Lummi Library | E 78 .G73 A53 1964 | 288121 | Stacks | Available | - |
| Lummi Library | Indian # 23 | 275115 | Deloria Collection | Available | - |