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Book Crook s Resum   of Operations Against Apache Indians  1882 to 1886

Download or read book Crook s Resum of Operations Against Apache Indians 1882 to 1886 written by George Crook and published by 39a Kildare Terrace W.2 Johnson-Taunton Military Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Resumee of Operations Against Apache Indians

Download or read book Resumee of Operations Against Apache Indians written by United States Army and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars  1865 1890

Download or read book Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars 1865 1890 written by Peter Cozzens and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Crook and the Western Frontier

Download or read book General Crook and the Western Frontier written by Charles M. Robinson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General George Crook was one of the most prominent soldiers in the frontier West. General William T. Sherman called him the greatest Indian fighter and manager the army ever had. General Crook and the Western Frontier, the first full-scale biography of Crook, uses contemporary manuscripts and primary sources to illuminate the general's personal life and military career.

Book A Catalogue of the Everett D  Graff Collection of Western Americana

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Everett D Graff Collection of Western Americana written by Newberry Library and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1968-11 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana consists of some 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, broadsheets, and photographs, of which about half are described in the present catalogue. The Graff Collection displays the remarkable breadth of interest, knowledge, and taste of a great bibliophile and student of Western American history. From this rich collection, now in The Newberry Library, Chicago, its former Curator, Colton Storm, has compiled a discriminating and representative Catalogue of the rarer and more unusual materials. Collectors, bibliographers, librarians, historians, and book dealers specializing in Americana will find the Graff Catalogue an interesting and essential tool. Detailed collations and binding descriptions are cited, and many of the more important works have been annotated by Mr. Graff and Mr. Storm. An extensive index of persons and subjects makes the book useful to the scholar as well as to the collector and dealer. The book is not a bibliography but rather a guide to rare or unique source materials now enriching The Newberry Library's outstanding holdings in American history.

Book A Splendid Savage  The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham

Download or read book A Splendid Savage The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham written by Steve Kemper and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rich, detailed, and pitch-perfect, with the witty and wonderful skipping off every page." —Maxwell Carter, Wall Street Journal Frederick Russell Burnham’s (1861–1947) amazing story resembles a newsreel fused with a Saturday matinee thriller. One of the few people who could turn his garrulous friend Theodore Roosevelt into a listener, Burnham was once world-famous as “the American scout.” His expertise in woodcraft, learned from frontiersmen and Indians, helped inspire another friend, Robert Baden-Powell, to found the Boy Scouts. His adventures encompassed Apache wars and range feuds, booms and busts in mining camps around the globe, explorations in remote regions of Africa, and death-defying military feats that brought him renown and high honors. His skills led to his unusual appointment, as an American, to be Chief of Scouts for the British during the Boer War, where his daring exploits earned him the Distinguished Service Order from King Edward VII. After a lifetime pursuing golden prospects from the deserts of Mexico and Africa to the tundra of the Klondike, Burnham found wealth, in his sixties, near his childhood home in southern California. Other men of his era had a few such adventures, but Burnham had them all. His friend H. Rider Haggard, author of many best-selling exotic tales, remarked, “In real life he is more interesting than any of my heroes of romance.” Among other well-known individuals who figure in Burnham’s story are Cecil Rhodes and William Howard Taft, as well as some of the wealthiest men of the day, including John Hays Hammond, E. H. Harriman, Henry Payne Whitney, and the Guggenheim brothers. Failure and tragedy streaked his life as well, but he was endlessly willing to set off into the unknown, where the future felt up for grabs and values worth dying for were at stake. Steve Kemper brings a quintessential American story to vivid life in this gripping biography.

Book Geronimo

Download or read book Geronimo written by Mike Leach and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An overview of the ... history of Apache chief Geronimo, with a look at the timeless strategies we can learn from his life, from ... football coach Mike Leach"--

Book ONCE THEY MOVED LIKE THE WIND  COCHISE  GERONIMO

Download or read book ONCE THEY MOVED LIKE THE WIND COCHISE GERONIMO written by David Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the westward settlement, for more than twenty years Apache tribes eluded both US and Mexican armies, and by 1886 an estimated 9,000 armed men were in pursuit. Roberts (Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative) presents a moving account of the end of the Indian Wars in the Southwest. He portrays the great Apache leaders—Cochise, Nana, Juh, Geronimo, the woman warrior Lozen—and U.S. generals George Crock and Nelson Miles. Drawing on contemporary American and Mexican sources, he weaves a somber story of treachery and misunderstanding. After Geronimo's surrender in 1886, the Apaches were sent to Florida, then to Alabama where many succumbed to malaria, tuberculosis and malnutrition and finally in 1894 to Oklahoma, remaining prisoners of war until 1913. The book is history at its most engrossing. —Publishers Weekly

Book Copy of Report of Brigadier General George Crook  Commanding Department of the Platte  Dated December 27th  1886  Regarding the Chiricahua Apache Campaign

Download or read book Copy of Report of Brigadier General George Crook Commanding Department of the Platte Dated December 27th 1886 Regarding the Chiricahua Apache Campaign written by George Crook and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Al Sieber

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dan L. Thrapp
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2012-11-28
  • ISBN : 0806170077
  • Pages : 467 pages

Download or read book Al Sieber written by Dan L. Thrapp and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General George Crook planned and organized the principal Apache campaign in Arizona, and General Nelson Miles took credit for its successful conclusion on the 1800s, but the men who really won it were rugged frontiersmen such as Al Sieber, the renowned Chief of Scouts. Crook relied on Sieber to lead Apache scouts against renegade Apaches, who were adept at hiding and raiding from within their native terrain. In this carefully researched biography, Dan L. Thrapp gives extensive evidence for Sieber’s expertise, noting that the expeditions he accompanied were highly successful whereas those from which he was absent met with few triumphs. Perhaps the greatest tribute to his abilities was paid by a San Carlos Apache who, no matter how miserable life might become, because, he said, Sieber would find him even if he left no tracks.

Book The View from Officers  Row

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sherry L. Smith
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 1991-02-01
  • ISBN : 9780816512454
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book The View from Officers Row written by Sherry L. Smith and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing military men in contemplation rather than combat, Sherry Smith reveals American army officers' views about the Indians against whom they fought in the last half of the nineteenth century. She demonstrates that these officers--and their wives--did not share a monolithic, negative view of their enemies, but instead often developed a great respect for Indians and their cultures. Some officers even came to question Indian policy, expressed misgivings about their personal involvement in the Indian Wars, and openly sympathized with their foe. The book reviews the period 1848-1890--from the acquisition of the Mexican Cession to the Battle of Wounded Knee--and encompasses the entire trans-Mississippi West. Resting primarily on personal documents drawn from a representative sample of the officer corps at all levels, the study seeks to juxtapose the opinions of high-ranking officers with those of officers of lesser prominence, who were perhaps less inclined to express personal opinions in official reports. No educated segment of American society had more prolonged contact with Indians than did army officers and their wives, yet not until now has such an overview of their attitudes been presented. Smith's work demolishes the stereotype of the Indian-hating officer and broadens our understanding of the role of the army in the American West.

Book Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography  P Z

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography P Z written by Dan L. Thrapp and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1991-06-01 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes biographical information on 4,500 individuals associated with the frontier

Book Wars for Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Janne Lahti
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2017-10-05
  • ISBN : 0806159332
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Wars for Empire written by Janne Lahti and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the end of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, the Southwest Borderlands remained hotly contested territory. Over following decades, the United States government exerted control in the Southwest by containing, destroying, segregating, and deporting indigenous peoples—in essence conducting an extended military campaign that culminated with the capture of Geronimo and the forced removal of the Chiricahua Apaches in 1886. In this book, Janne Lahti charts these encounters and the cultural differences that shaped them. Wars for Empire offers a new perspective on the conduct, duration, intensity, and ultimate outcome of one of America's longest wars. Centuries of conflict with Spain and Mexico had honed Apache war-making abilities and encouraged a culture based in part on warrior values, from physical prowess and specialized skills to a shared belief in individual effort. In contrast, U.S. military forces lacked sufficient training and had little public support. The splintered, protracted, and ferocious warfare exposed the limitations of the U.S. military and of federal Indian policies, challenging narratives of American supremacy in the West. Lahti maps the ways in which these weaknesses undermined the U.S. advance. He also stresses how various Apache groups reacted differently to the U.S. invasion. Ultimately, new technologies, the expansion of Euro-American settlements, and decades of war and deception ended armed Apache resistance. By comparing competing martial cultures and examining violence in the Southwest, Wars for Empire provides a new understanding of critical decades of American imperial expansion and a moment in the history of settler colonialism with worldwide significance.

Book The Apaches

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  • Author : Michael Edward Melody
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 1977
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book The Apaches written by Michael Edward Melody and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of Brigadier General George Crook on the Operations of Troops Under His Command Against the Apache Indians

Download or read book Report of Brigadier General George Crook on the Operations of Troops Under His Command Against the Apache Indians written by United States. Army. Department of Arizona and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901  Author index

Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Author index written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Western Americana  Frontier History of the Trans Mississippi West  1550 1900

Download or read book Western Americana Frontier History of the Trans Mississippi West 1550 1900 written by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and published by Woodbridge, CT. : Research Publications. This book was released on 1980 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: