Death on the Prairie: The Thirty Years' Struggle for the Western Plains

Author:   Paul I. Wellman
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780803297210


Pages:   277
Publication Date:   01 September 1987
Format:   Paperback
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Death on the Prairie: The Thirty Years' Struggle for the Western Plains


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Death on the Prairie is a sweeping narrative history of the Indian wars on the western plains that never loses sight of the individual actors. Beginning with the Minnesota Sioux Uprising in 1862, Paul I. Wellman shifts to conflicts in present-day Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, and South Dakota, involving, most spectacularly, the Sioux, but also the Cheyennes, Arapahos, Comanches, Kiowas, Utes, and Nez Perces-all being ezed out of their hunting grounds by white settlers. There is never a quiet page as Wellman describes the Sand Creek Massacre (1864), the Fetterman Massacre (1866), the Battle of the Washita (1868), the Battle of Adobe Walls (1874), the Battle of the Little Big Horn (1876), the Nez Perce War (1877), the Meeker Massacre (1879), and the tragedy at wounded Knee (1890) that ended the fighting on the plains. Celebrated chiefs (Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Black Kettle, Satanta, Joseph, Ouray, Sitting Bull) clash with army officers (notably Custer, Sheridan, Miles, and Crook), and uncounted men, women, and children on both sides are cast in roles of fatal consequence.

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Author:   Paul I. Wellman
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.30cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9780803297210


ISBN 10:   0803297211
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   01 September 1987
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

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Death on the Prairie is comprehensive, rich enough in derail to be graphic and convincing, and beautifully proportioned. . . . It is a valuable addition to Western history. -- Christian Science Monitor


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