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Death on the prairie : the thirty years' struggle for the Western Plains  Cover Image Book Book

Death on the prairie : the thirty years' struggle for the Western Plains

Summary: Publisher description: Death on the Prairie is a sweeping narrative history of the Indian wars on the western plains that never loses sight of the individual actors. Beginning with the Minnesota Sioux Uprising in 1862, Paul I. Wellman shifts to conflicts in present-day Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, and South Dakota, involving, most spectacularly, the Sioux, but also the Cheyennes, Arapahos, Comanches, Kiowas, Utes, and Nez Perces -- all being ezed out of their hunting grounds by white settlers. There is never a quiet page as Wellman describes the Sand Creek Massacre (1864), the Fetterman Massacre (1866), the Battle of the Washita (1868), the Battle of Adobe Walls (1874), the Battle of the Little Big Horn (1876), the Nez Perce War (1877), the Meeker Massacre (1879), and the tragedy at wounded Knee (1890) that ended the fighting on the plains. Celebrated chiefs (Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Black Kettle, Satanta, Joseph, Ouray, Sitting Bull) clash with army officers (notably Custer, Sheridan, Miles, and Crook), and uncounted men, women, and children on both sides are cast in roles of fatal consequence.

Record details

  • ISBN: 080329722X
  • ISBN: 0803247486
  • ISBN: 9780803247475
  • ISBN: 0803247478
  • ISBN: 9780803297210
  • ISBN: 0803297211
  • Physical Description: xii, 298 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
    print
  • Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1987 printing, ©1934.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1934.
"A Bison book."
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-284) and index.
Subject: Indians of North America Wars 1862-1865
Indians of North America Wars 1866-1895
Indians Wars North America
Indians Wars
Indians of North America Wars
North America

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library E 83.863 .W35 1987 100000078 Stacks Available -

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