Wolves for the blue soldiers : Indian scouts and auxiliaries with the United States Army, 1860-90 / Thomas W. Dunlay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunlay, Thomas W., 1944- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Wars--1862-1865.

Indians of North America.

Indian scouts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Other Title:

Wolves for the blue soldiers

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2018.

Summary:

"The purpose of this work, therefore, is to survey the entire subject of Indian military cooperation with the whites in the period 1860-90, in an attempt to discern patterns of action and motivation. My intention is less to provide new information about particular scout units--although a number of points made here have not been examined in print before--than to discover the broader meaning of episodes and personalities that have previously been viewed in isolation or in passing"-- Introduction.

Contents:

Indian allies: a long history

The amateurs take over: the influence of the Civil War

Regularization

Military attitudes toward Indian scouts

The role of scouts in Indian warfare

"Indian thinking": White leadership and Indian scouts

Renegades, patriots, and pragmatists

The other good Indians: the Intratribal conflict

The Pawnee wolves

"More formidable Indians": The Apache scouts

The White man's road

Conclusion.

Notes:

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