Download or read book Scouting for the Bluecoats written by Robert S. McPherson and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With more than twenty books published about the Navajo people, Robert S. McPherson is one of the most prolific contemporary writers concerning their history and culture. Scouting for the Bluecoats addresses a little-known and, until now, undocumented story of an estimated five hundred Navajos employed by the United States Army, primarily in the campaigns against the Apaches between 1873 and 1886. The author takes us with these scouts as they guide U.S. soldiers into the deserts, canyons, and mountains of New Mexico, Arizona, and Northern Mexico; he also provides a solid context about the origin of the Navajos and Apaches, their intertribal conflicts, and their elements of shared culture. Once again McPherson demonstrates his skill as a master historian, his understanding of these people, and a meaningful context for this long-neglected story of warrior-soldiers whose fieldcraft and dedication proved critical in shaping relations between the military and two Indian tribes in the Southwest." --Kent Powell, Senior historian at Utah Division of State History and editor of Utah State Historical Quarterly (retired) "Scouting for the Bluecoats examines the important role that Navajos played in military operations during the last quarter of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Unlike the famous Navajo code talkers of World War II, little has been written about these men who served in some of the most challenging and noteworthy struggles against the Apaches. Until now, their story has been forgotten. Navajo skills in understanding and tracking a wily foe across an inhospitable landscape proved to be essential elements in ending the Apache wars. For those interested in the recruitment and deployment of the scouts, measures taken to counter enemy tactics, and the challenge of obtaining recognition for their service, this book is an invaluable source and a must-read for any serious scholar of Navajo history." --Ronald P. Maldonado, Tribal historic preservation officer (retired), Navajo Nation
Download or read book The Red bluecoats written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scouting written by and published by . This book was released on 1992-09 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the Boy Scouts of America for all BSA registered adult volunteers and professionals, Scouting magazine offers editorial content that is a mixture of information, instruction, and inspiration, designed to strengthen readers' abilities to better perform their leadership roles in Scouting and also to assist them as parents in strengthening families.
Download or read book Scouting written by and published by . This book was released on 1992-09 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the Boy Scouts of America for all BSA registered adult volunteers and professionals, Scouting magazine offers editorial content that is a mixture of information, instruction, and inspiration, designed to strengthen readers' abilities to better perform their leadership roles in Scouting and also to assist them as parents in strengthening families.
Download or read book The Blue Coats and how They Lived Fought and Died for the Union written by John Truesdale and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wolves for the Blue Soldiers written by Thomas W. Dunlay and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1987-10-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades following the Civil War, the principal task facing the United States Army was that of subduing the hostile western Indians and removing them from the path of white settlement. Indian scouts and auxiliaries played a central role in the effort, participating in virtually every campaign. In this comprehensive account of the "wolves" (as scouts were designated in sign language), Thomas W. Dunlay describes how and why they served the army, how they were viewed by the military and their own tribes, and what wider implications their service held.
Download or read book Wolves of Eden A Novel written by Kevin McCarthy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Kevin McCarthy is in the company of masters like Patrick O’Brian and Hilary Mantel.… [A] shiningly humane novel.” —Stephen Harrigan, author of The Gates of the Alamo and A Friend of Mr. Lincoln 1866, Dakota Territory. Red Cloud’s coalition of tribes is battling the U.S. Army to reclaim hunting grounds in the Powder River Valley. Against this background, Wolves of Eden sets four men on a deadly collision course in a narrative that explores the cruelty of warfare, the power of love and the resilience of the human spirit. Lieutenant Martin Molloy and his loyal orderly are sent west to investigate a triple murder at a frontier fort, and Irish immigrant brothers Thomas and Michael O’Driscoll, who survived the brutal frontlines of the Civil War, find themselves as both hunters and the hunted in another bloody campaign. Blending intimate historical detail and emotional acuity, Wolves of Eden is “a riveting and propulsive mystery” (Publishers Weekly).
Download or read book Warpaint and Blue Coats written by Timothy L. Oakes and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dying Grass written by William T. Vollmann and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 1378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central – a dazzling fictional account of the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians In this fifth installment in his acclaimed Seven Dreams series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn the previous year, as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border. Vollmann’s main character is not the legendary Chief Joseph but his pursuer, General Oliver Otis Howard, the brave, shy, tormented, devoutly Christian Civil War veteran. In this novel, we see him as commander, father, son, husband, friend, and killer. Teeming with many vivid characters on both sides of the conflict, and written in an original style in which the printed page works as a stage with multiple layers of foreground and background, The Dying Grass is another mesmerizing achievement from one of the most ambitious writers of our time.
Download or read book The Scout written by Charles Waller Tyler and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book James McKay U S Army Scout written by W.R. Benton and published by Loose Cannon. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Author of 'War Paint' After the Civil War... Having survived four long bloody years of slaughter and horrors, Ex-Confederate Colonel James McKay stakes his hopes on finding a new beginning in the west, but instead finds violence and death. Desperate for a new livelihood, he accepts a scout position for the U.S. Army who aim to capture gunrunners selling surplus Civil War repeating rifles to the marauding Sioux. By accident, McKay stumbles onto a more dangerous plot involving stolen Gatling guns and renegade tribes. The thrilling search is on for a slippery gunrunner by the name of Wild Bill. McKay is hot on his trail, joining forces with Ezekiel, an old but ornery mountain man with a score to settle. Saddle up, W.R. Benton gives us another fast-paced, and action-packed tale of the old west. “James McKay, US Army Scout, is a book about honor. James McKay out Virginians the Virginian with his actions.” —James Drury, “The Virginian”
Download or read book Frederick the Great and the Seven Years War 1756 1763 written by Herbert J. Redman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seven Years' War (1756-1763), known as the French and Indian War in North America, was perhaps the first war that might be called a world war. It involved the major European countries, North and Central America, the coast of West Africa, the Philippines, and India. A major player in the war was Frederick the Great (1712-1786), the king of Prussia and a great military leader. The first major work on the monarch and his role in the war for more than a century, this book sheds light on many aspects of military and European history.
Download or read book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 c of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 written by United States. Internal Revenue Service and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Cavalry Scout written by Dee Brown and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A western saga of honor amid the nineteenth-century Indian wars from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. “I wished I was back in Texas and had never left there to end up scouting in such godforsaken country for an army dressed in blue.” Such are the sentiments of John Singleterry as this gripping tale begins in the snowy wilderness. Singleterry and his partner, Peter Dunreath, are sent to scout ahead of their battalion when they’re taken captive by two fighters from the Cheyenne, a tribe not known for taking prisoners. One fighter is an old medicine woman, suspicious and eager to kill, while the other, a beautiful mixed-race girl named Marisa, wants to wait. The women tell the scouts about their tribe’s decimation during its forced relocation, and of multiple promises that have been broken—stories that force Singleterry to face difficult questions of love and desertion. Written by an acclaimed chronicler of the drama of the American West and the conflicts between white men and Indians, this is a moving novel of torn loyalties set during one of the most tumultuous eras in Native American history. Cavalry Scout gives full-blooded reality to its time, and to both the settlers and natives at the heart of its story. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
Download or read book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 c of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
