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The lightning stick : arrows, wounds, and Indian legends / H. Henrietta Stockel. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stockel, H. Henrietta, 1938-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Surgery, Military--Southwest, New--History--19th century.
- Surgery, Military.
- Bow and arrow--Southwest, New--History--19th century.
- Bow and arrow.
- Stab wounds.
- Indian weapons--North America.
- Indian weapons.
- Wounds, Penetrating.
- Wounds, Stab.
- Indians, North American.
- Military Medicine--history.
- Mythology.
- Surgery, Military--History--19th century--Southwest, New.
- Bow and arrow--History--19th century--Southwest, New.
- Stab wounds--North America.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Wounds, Penetrating.
- Wounds, Stab.
- Indians, North American.
- Military Medicine--history.
- Mythology.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 131 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Reno : University of Nevada Press, c1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Perspectives
- Arrows, arrow medicine, and medicine arrow
- Barbers, basins, and battlefields
- An explorer-surgeon surnames "cow's head"
- Be all that you can be in the ar-r-r-mee, circa 1860
- The mother of all headaches
- The head: cutting, scraping, drilling, and scalping
- The deadly arrow today.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-125) and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-87417-399-X
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