The settlers' war [electronic resource] : the struggle for the Texas frontier in the 1860's / Gregory Michno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michno, Gregory, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pioneers--Texas--History--19th century.

Pioneers.

Frontier and pioneer life--Texas--History--19th century.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Indians of North America--Wars--Texas.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Wars--1815-1875.

Texas--History--19th century.

Texas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p.)

Place of Publication:

Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Press, 2011.

Summary:

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press During the decades from 1820 to 1870, the American frontier expanded two thousand miles across the trans-Mississippi West. In Texas the frontier line expanded only about two hundred miles. The supposedly irresistible European force met nearly immovable Native American resistance, sparking a brutal struggle for possession of Texas's hills and prairies that continued for decades.During the 1860's, however, the bloodiest decade in the western

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Maps; Preface; Part 1: Before the Bloody Decade; 1 "By Naked Conquest."; 2 "Your Troubles and difficulties will not cease."; Part 2: 1860; 3 "I tried that Virginia back heel on him."; 4 "They Held Their Bibles."; 5 "A drought of such continued severity was never known before."; 6 "This knife will take off my scalp before I get home."; 7 "Eating twice their own weight in beef."; 8 "Glorious news -Nine scalps taken."; 9 "I am going home to die no more."; 10 "Me Cincee Ann!"; Part 3: 1861; 11 "We will swoop down upon him at night."

12 "He would not killey me."13 "They are afflicted with the disease known here as the 'Indian Grab.'"; 14 "One of the most daring and extensive raids ever known"; 15 "The soldiers did their best, but the Indians generally outwitted them."; Part 4: 1862; 16 They behaved "cowardly and disgracefully."; 17 "Kill all the grown Indians and take the children prisoners."; 18 "In the dark corner of the Confederacy."; 19 "Friendly and true to the White man for years."; 20 "Stock raisers and herders for the benefit of the Indians."; Part 5: 1863; 21 "No army, no means, no system, no order."

22 "I am afraid to live in this country any longer."23 "If you are a prisoner, don't be afraid."; 24 "What is one man's family to the whole of the Confederacy?"; 25 "We but little dread now of an invasion this winter."; 26 "Too late to pray now, the Devil has come."; Part 6: 1864; 27 "I saw my sister's ghastly look."; 28 "I have never been in a country where the people were so perfectly worthless."; 29 "There we found mother's bleached bones."; 30 "Indians are coming; get in the brush!"; 31 "I am astonished at the number of fools in Texas."; Part 7: 1865

32 "He recognized no friendly Indians on the Texas Frontier."33 "Don't let them carry me away!"; 34 "The Booger-Man did it."; 35 "The wounds caused by scalping gave off such an offensive odor."; 36 "There must be a frontier somewhere."; 37 "They died of too large views."; Part 8: 1866; 38 - "The last time I saw my father, he was running for the creek."; 39 - "They did not yell like white people."; 40 - "I never sent anyone in search."; 41 - "They are Indians-we are gone."; 42 - "Go with him and be a good boy."; 43 - "Someone has killed a maverick here."

44 - "The Indians can be taught that Texas is a part of the U. S.""Part 9: 1867; 45 - "When the soldiers got there the Indians got mean."; 46 - "Well, I would call them unfriendly."; 47 - "I regret to have to be laid away in a foreign country."; 48 - "The children cried for milk."; 49 - "The Indians of my agency have remained perfectly quiet and peaceable."; Part 10: 1868; 50 - "He was scalped and frozen when we found him."; 51 - "This is my poor child's hair!"; 52 - "The savings of all our youthful days was gone."; 53 - "The troops delight in seeing the savages commit their murderous deeds."

54 - "Father, you will never come back."

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-87506-2

9786613716378

0-87004-502-4

OCLC:

797915711