Death on the prairie : the thirty years' struggle for the Western Plains / by Paul I. Wellman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wellman, Paul I. (Paul Iselin), 1898-1966.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Wars--1866-1895.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Wars.

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

Physical Description:

xii, 298 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1987.

Summary:

"" The Apache Indians and the white settlers came face to face after the Mexican War, when the migrations across the continent reached the Southwest. In depicting the long, bitter resistance of the Apaches, Death in the Desert reveals incidents that provoked their undying hatred of whites.

This rousing narrative history by Paul I. Wellman begins in 1837 with the rise to tribal leadership of Mangas Coloradas and ends in 1886 with the surrender of Geronimo. For a half century the dust never settles as U.S. troops fight the Apaches in Arizona and New Mexico and defeat the single uprisings of the Navajos and Pueblos. Two chapters describe the Modoc War in northern California from 1871 to 1873.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1934.

"A Bison book."

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 283-284.

ISBN:

0803297211

0803247478

OCLC:

15860629