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Book Captors and Captives

    Book Details:
  • Author : Evan Haefeli
  • Publisher : Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book Captors and Captives written by Evan Haefeli and published by Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account that explores the raid from the conflicting viewpoints of the raiders, both French-Canadian and Native American, and the Deerfield villagers.

Book Tomahawk and Musket

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  • Author : René Chartrand
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2012-01-20
  • ISBN : 1780960336
  • Pages : 157 pages

Download or read book Tomahawk and Musket written by René Chartrand and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1758, at the height of the French and Indian War, British Brigadier General John Forbes led his army on a methodical advance against Fort Duquesene, French headquarters in the Ohio valley. As his army closed in upon the fort, he sent Major Grant of the 77th Highlanders and 850 men on a reconnaissance in force against the fort. The French, alerted to this move, launched their own counter-raid. 500 French and Canadians, backed by 500 Indian allies, ambushed the highlanders and sent them fleeing back to the main army. With the success of that operation, the French planed their own raid against the English encampment at Fort Ligonier under less than fifty miles away. With only 600 men, against an enemy strength of 4,000, he ordered a daring night attack on the heart of the enemy encampment. This book tells the complete story of these ambitious raids and counter-raids, giving in-depth detail on the forces, terrain, and tactics.

Book Massacre at Camp Grant

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  • Author : Chip Colwell
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2015-09-01
  • ISBN : 0816532656
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Massacre at Camp Grant written by Chip Colwell and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a National Council on Public History Book Award On April 30, 1871, an unlikely group of Anglo-Americans, Mexican Americans, and Tohono O’odham Indians massacred more than a hundred Apache men, women, and children who had surrendered to the U.S. Army at Camp Grant, near Tucson, Arizona. Thirty or more Apache children were stolen and either kept in Tucson homes or sold into slavery in Mexico. Planned and perpetrated by some of the most prominent men in Arizona’s territorial era, this organized slaughter has become a kind of “phantom history” lurking beneath the Southwest’s official history, strangely present and absent at the same time. Seeking to uncover the mislaid past, this powerful book begins by listening to those voices in the historical record that have long been silenced and disregarded. Massacre at Camp Grant fashions a multivocal narrative, interweaving the documentary record, Apache narratives, historical texts, and ethnographic research to provide new insights into the atrocity. Thus drawing from a range of sources, it demonstrates the ways in which painful histories continue to live on in the collective memories of the communities in which they occurred. Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh begins with the premise that every account of the past is suffused with cultural, historical, and political characteristics. By paying attention to all of these aspects of a contested event, he provides a nuanced interpretation of the cultural forces behind the massacre, illuminates how history becomes an instrument of politics, and contemplates why we must study events we might prefer to forget.

Book Story of Kansas  Last Indian Raid

Download or read book Story of Kansas Last Indian Raid written by Last Indian Raid in Kansas Museum and published by . This book was released on 198? with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indian Raids and Massacres

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  • Author : Jeff Broome
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-09-11
  • ISBN : 9780870046353
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Indian Raids and Massacres written by Jeff Broome and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian wars on the Central Plains the area roughly between the Arkansas River to the south and the Platte River to the north " emanates at the November 29, 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. The chapters here tell in great depth the incidents before and after the Sand Creek Massacre, ending with the destruction of the Cheyenne Dog Soldier village at Summit Springs July 11, 1869. Beginning with the Hungate Massacre near Denver June 11, 1864, the final chapter reports on efforts to find the lost grave of Susanna Alderdice, killed at her rescue at Summit Springs. Within these chapters are found Custer, Cody, the Pony Express, and even Wild Bill Hickok, all with a connection with this five-year Indian war.

Book Indian Raid of 1878

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  • Author : Kansas. Legislature. Senate. Commission appointed in pursuance of the provisions of Senate joint resolution no. 1
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1879
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 70 pages

Download or read book Indian Raid of 1878 written by Kansas. Legislature. Senate. Commission appointed in pursuance of the provisions of Senate joint resolution no. 1 and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book War of a Thousand Deserts

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  • Author : Brian DeLay
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2008-11-01
  • ISBN : 0300150423
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book War of a Thousand Deserts written by Brian DeLay and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1830s, after decades of relative peace, northern Mexicans and the Indians whom they called "the barbarians" descended into a terrifying cycle of violence. For the next fifteen years, owing in part to changes unleashed by American expansion, Indian warriors launched devastating attacks across ten Mexican states. Raids and counter-raids claimed thousands of lives, ruined much of northern Mexico's economy, depopulated its countryside, and left man-made "deserts" in place of thriving settlements. Just as important, this vast interethnic war informed and emboldened U.S. arguments in favor of seizing Mexican territory while leaving northern Mexicans too divided, exhausted, and distracted to resist the American invasion and subsequent occupation. Exploring Mexican, American, and Indian sources ranging from diplomatic correspondence and congressional debates to captivity narratives and plains Indians' pictorial calendars, "War of a Thousand Deserts" recovers the surprising and previously unrecognized ways in which economic, cultural, and political developments within native communities affected nineteenth-century nation-states. In the process this ambitious book offers a rich and often harrowing new narrative of the era when the United States seized half of Mexico's national territory.

Book Indian Raid of 1878

Download or read book Indian Raid of 1878 written by Kansas. Legislature. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tomahawk and Musket

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  • Author : René Chartrand
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2012-01-20
  • ISBN : 1849085676
  • Pages : 82 pages

Download or read book Tomahawk and Musket written by René Chartrand and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1758, at the height of the French and Indian War, British Brigadier General John Forbes led his army on a methodical advance against Fort Duquesene, French headquarters in the Ohio valley. As his army closed in upon the fort, he sent Major Grant of the 77th Highlanders and 850 men on a reconnaissance in force against the fort. The French, alerted to this move, launched their own counter-raid. 500 French and Canadians, backed by 500 Indian allies, ambushed the highlanders and sent them fleeing back to the main army. With the success of that operation, the French planed their own raid against the English encampment at Fort Ligonier under less than fifty miles away. With only 600 men, against an enemy strength of 4,000, he ordered a daring night attack on the heart of the enemy encampment. This book tells the complete story of these ambitious raids and counter-raids, giving in-depth detail on the forces, terrain, and tactics.

Book Empire of the Summer Moon

Download or read book Empire of the Summer Moon written by S. C. Gwynne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award* This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West “is nothing short of a revelation…will leave dust and blood on your jeans” (The New York Times Book Review). Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches. Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled backward by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands. The war with the Comanches lasted four decades, in effect holding up the development of the new American nation. Gwynne’s exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads, and the amazing story of Cynthia Ann Parker and her son Quanah—a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being. Hailed by critics, S. C. Gwynne’s account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told. Empire of the Summer Moon announces him as a major new writer of American history.

Book In Search of Morgan s Station and  the Last Indian Raid in Kentucky

Download or read book In Search of Morgan s Station and the Last Indian Raid in Kentucky written by Harry G. Enoch and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focal point of this meticulously researched book is the 1793 Indian raid on Morgan's Station in which a band of about thirty-five Shawnee and Cherokee Indians descended upon this small fort in a surprise attack that ended with two people killed and 19

Book The Warren Wagontrain Raid

Download or read book The Warren Wagontrain Raid written by Benjamin Capps and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete account of an historic Indian attack and its aftermath.

Book Indian Raids and Massacres

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  • Author : Jeff Broome
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-09-11
  • ISBN : 9780870046391
  • Pages : 506 pages

Download or read book Indian Raids and Massacres written by Jeff Broome and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian Raids and Massacres covers incidents in Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska from 1864-1870. Each chapter is a story unto itself and the book can be read in any order as well as from beginning to end. There are two sides to these violent events, and, while the focus is on the Euro American perspective, the contrary perspective of the Native American is also presented. Broome relies on primary-source documents usually ignored by other authors, but more than that, he carefully sorts out all documents relating to each chapter, while carefully applying critical thinking skills to arrive at the truth of each event. Untapped Indian depredation claims housed in Washington, DC give the reader a deeper understanding of the terrors of Indian raids, especially when experienced by new settlers to the region. What emerges represents bold and new history not found in other published accounts. The Sand Creek Massacre on November 29, 1864 fueled most of the violent responses from then to the Cheyenne Dog Soldier's final defeat at Summit Springs July 11,1869. Also covered are the violent events that happened before Sand Creek. There is much on Custer in the 1860s, as well as Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok's 1870 fatal gunfight with a 7th Cavalryman who participated in these events and who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1869. These chapters reflect more than 20 years of research and writing on the Central Plains Indian War.

Book Indian Raids in Lincoln County  Kansas  1864 and 1869  Story of Those Killed

Download or read book Indian Raids in Lincoln County Kansas 1864 and 1869 Story of Those Killed written by Christian Bernhardt and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book An Indian Raid

Download or read book An Indian Raid written by George Alfred Henty and published by . This book was released on 190? with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bear River Massacre

Download or read book The Bear River Massacre written by Darren Parry and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Bear River Massacre by the current Chief of the Northwestern Shoshone Band.

Book An Indian Raid

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Alfred Henty
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book An Indian Raid written by George Alfred Henty and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: