The Buffalo War
by Haley, James L.
Published by : Doubleday & Company, Inc. (Garden City, NY) Physical details: 290 p ISBN:0385061498. ISSN:978038506 Year: 1976| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| 900 - 999 | 973.82 Hal (Browse shelf) | Available | In Memory of : Frank E. Sauble | 44466 |
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| 973.81092 Tuc Cathy Williams : | 973.810924 Ale Cavalry wife: | 973.82 Con Son of the morning star | 973.82 Hal The Buffalo War | 973.82 Kin Campaigning with Crook. | 973.82 Phi The last stand : | 973.82 San The battle of the Little Big Horn |
The buffalo Indians --
The Indians' commissary --
The gathering storm --
The buffalo war --
The battle of adobe walls --
Lone Wolf's revenge: the lost valley fight --
The United States goes to war --
Internment: the Anadarko fight --
The great dry time: the Miles expedition and the battle of Red River --
Medicine water: the lone tree massacre and the German kidnappings --
The Anadarko renegades: the battle for Lyman's wagon train and the battle of buffalo wallow --
The Mackenzie column: the battle of Palo Duro canyon --
The wrinkle-hand chase --
The collapse of Indian resistance --
Prison.
Gen. Phil Sheridan called the Red River War of 1874 the most successful Indian campaign ever waged. Many of its incidents have become frontier legends, but only here is the extraordinary episode chronicled in full in all of its intricate ad amazing detail. Author/historian James L. Haley has carefully analyzed the causes of the Indian unrest, centering upon the great buffalo slaughter which threatened to destroy forever the foundation of Indian life. The competing factions which shaped the course of events during the conflicts---war and peace factions' competing for control within the Indian tribes, officers' competing for commands and promotions within the U.S. Army and the Indian Bureau's competing for policy control within government bureaucracies--are brilliantly researched and described, as are the battle strategies and engagements that made the Buffalo War such a curious blend of savagery, heroics, accidents and confusion on both sides. Mr. Haley's extensive research heavily on contemporary letters and reports, and his many new findings overturned a number of myths and prejudices which had surfaced during the hundred years since the Red River uprising. The result is an exciting, authentic narrative filled with colorful events and personalities of a crucial time in the history of the American frontiers, included are fifty-eight rare photographs of the Indian leaders, buffalo hunters, army officers and Indian agents who played roles in the history of the Buffalo War.
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