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The lightning stick : arrows, wounds, and Indian legends / H. Henrietta Stockel. [electronic resource]

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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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