Death on the prairie : the thirty years' struggle for the Western Plains
(Book - Regular Print)
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Published
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1987.
Physical Desc
xii, 298 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Status
Chino Valley Public Library - SWNF - Southwest Collection - Nonfiction
979.02 WEL
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979.02 WEL
1 available
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Published
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1987.
Format
Book - Regular Print
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1934.
General Note
"A Bison book."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-284) and index.
Description
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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Wellman, P. I. 1. (1987). Death on the prairie: the thirty years' struggle for the Western Plains . University of Nebraska Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wellman, Paul I. 1898-1966. 1987. Death On the Prairie: The Thirty Years' Struggle for the Western Plains. University of Nebraska Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wellman, Paul I. 1898-1966. Death On the Prairie: The Thirty Years' Struggle for the Western Plains University of Nebraska Press, 1987.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Wellman, Paul I. 1898-1966. Death On the Prairie: The Thirty Years' Struggle for the Western Plains University of Nebraska Press, 1987.
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