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Today Is a Good Day to Fight: The Indian Wars and the Conquest of the West
Blood, guts, dust and hatred: the real history of the American West. Today is a Good Day to Fight covers the period from the initial penetration of the region by settlers and prospectors in the 1840s until the end of the Indian Wars in the 1890s. It explains the history of white-Indian conflict from the military point of view, showing how the United States used its army to wage terrible wars of conquest upon Native American peoples in order to take the land from them and enrich the growing nation, and how the Indians never really stood a chance in trying to defend their homelands. Highlighting the fractious and bitter relations between tribes unable and unwilling to unite in time to stave off their common enemy, it portrays the utter bitterness of the conflict between white and Indian, and how both sides resorted to increasingly foul acts of war and slaughter as the conflict progressed. A dirty, underhanded and scrappy conflict, the outrages committed by both sides fuelled bitterness and resentment that still exists in America today.
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Today Is a Good Day to Fight: The Indian Wars and the Conquest of the West
Blood, guts, dust and hatred: the real history of the American West. Today is a Good Day to Fight covers the period from the initial penetration of the region by settlers and prospectors in the 1840s until the end of the Indian Wars in the 1890s. It explains the history of white-Indian conflict from the military point of view, showing how the United States used its army to wage terrible wars of conquest upon Native American peoples in order to take the land from them and enrich the growing nation, and how the Indians never really stood a chance in trying to defend their homelands. Highlighting the fractious and bitter relations between tribes unable and unwilling to unite in time to stave off their common enemy, it portrays the utter bitterness of the conflict between white and Indian, and how both sides resorted to increasingly foul acts of war and slaughter as the conflict progressed. A dirty, underhanded and scrappy conflict, the outrages committed by both sides fuelled bitterness and resentment that still exists in America today.
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Today Is a Good Day to Fight: The Indian Wars and the Conquest of the West

Today Is a Good Day to Fight: The Indian Wars and the Conquest of the West

by Mark Felton
Today Is a Good Day to Fight: The Indian Wars and the Conquest of the West

Today Is a Good Day to Fight: The Indian Wars and the Conquest of the West

by Mark Felton

Overview

Blood, guts, dust and hatred: the real history of the American West. Today is a Good Day to Fight covers the period from the initial penetration of the region by settlers and prospectors in the 1840s until the end of the Indian Wars in the 1890s. It explains the history of white-Indian conflict from the military point of view, showing how the United States used its army to wage terrible wars of conquest upon Native American peoples in order to take the land from them and enrich the growing nation, and how the Indians never really stood a chance in trying to defend their homelands. Highlighting the fractious and bitter relations between tribes unable and unwilling to unite in time to stave off their common enemy, it portrays the utter bitterness of the conflict between white and Indian, and how both sides resorted to increasingly foul acts of war and slaughter as the conflict progressed. A dirty, underhanded and scrappy conflict, the outrages committed by both sides fuelled bitterness and resentment that still exists in America today.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780750988902
Publisher: The History Press
Publication date: 05/01/2018
Edition description: New edition
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Dr Mark Felton is the author of over two dozen history books, including several bestsellers, and regularly appears on television and radio. He holds a PhD in Native American-white relations in nineteenth-century North America. In 2011, Today is a Good Day to Fight was used as a central source for Melvyn Bragg's BBC In Our Time documentary 'Custer's Last Stand'. He lives in Norwich.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Introduction 9

1 The Long Walk 17

2 The Great Sioux Uprising 27

3 Wading in Gore 35

4 The War for the Trails 49

5 Conquering a Peace 73

6 Death in the Lava Beds 89

7 Son of the Morning Star 103

8 Long Knives on the March 135

9 'Fight no more forever' 147

10 The Small Wars 173

11 Slaughter in the Snow 193

Epilogue: Return to Wounded Knee 209

Bibliography 213

Index 219

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