Great Western Indian Fights

by Members of the Potomac Corral of the Westerners

Overview

From 1832 to 1891 the states from the Great Lakes west to Oregon and south to Mexico saw scenes of massacre, bloody rout, ambush, fire, and pillage as the great Indian tribes-Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Sioux, Arapaho, Modoc, and Apache-fought desperately to turn back the invading white men.

Recreated in this volume, original published in 1960, are twenty-odd battles crucial in the opening of the American West to white settlement. Among the battles included here are the Pierre’s Hole fight, the battle of Bandera Pass, the battle of Pyramid Lake, the battle of Wood Lake, the Canyon de Chelly rout, the battles of Adobe Walls, the Fetterman, Hayfield, and Wagon Box fights, the fight at Beecher Island, the battle of the Washita, the battles of Massacre Canyon and Palo Duro Canyon, the battle of the Rosebud, the battle of the Little Bighorn, the Dull Knife massacre, and the final, tragic battle at Wounded Knee.

“A fine guide to the conflict that transpired across the wide Missouri.”—San Francisco Sunday Chronicle

“An excellent account of most of the major fights between the white man and the Indian in…the western part of the United States.”—Library Journal

“Two dozen of the most celebrated and hair-raising Indian fights on record. Good, solid reading, and a whole peck of it.”—New York Times Book Review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787203952
Publisher:	Normanby Press
Publication date:	02/07/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	299
Sales rank:	708,657
File size:	26 MB
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About the Author

B. W. (BILL) ALLRED (January 17, 1904 - December 14, 1976) was a native of Utah. He held B.S. and M.S. degrees from Utah Agricultural College and took additional graduate work at the University of Nebraska. He was a cowboy in Utah, a sheepherder in Wyoming, and a county agent in Colorado before joining the Soil Conservation Service in 1935. He then became the Ranch Planning Specialist in the Washington office of the Soil Conservation Service, collecting Western Americana, specializing in books on range life. He was the author of Range Conservation Practices for the Great Plains; Practical Grassland Management; (with J. C. Dykes) Flat Top Ranch; and over four hundred articles and book reviews.

J. C. (JEFF) DYKES (June 20, 1900 - December 31, 1989) was a native of Texas. He was a graduate of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College and a former faculty member of his alma mater. He then became Assistant Administrator of the Soil Conservation Service. He was an ardent collector of Western books and an outstanding authority on Western Americana. He was the author of Billy the Kid: The Bibliography of a Legend and numerous articles and papers on Western books and conservation. In 1950 he became an associate editor of The Brand Book, the official monthly publication of the Chicago Corral, The Westerners.

FRANK GOODWYN (1911-2001) was born in South Texas and grew up on the King Ranch. He held degrees in English and Spanish from Texas A&I University in Kingsville and earned a Ph.D. in Spanish and Folklore from the University of Texas at Austin. He twice held the J. Frank Dobie Fellowship in Southwestern Literature. He was the author of two novels, The Magic of Limping John (named Best Texas Book of the Year by the Texas Institute of Letters in 1944) and The Black Bull, as well as poems, folk tales, and articles on the craft of writing. He was a professor emeritus of the University of Maryland and lived in Silver Spring, Maryland.