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Fighting Indians of the West

Door Martin F. Schmitt e.a.

Categorie	Geschiedenis Noord-Amerika
Boeknummer	#357759-WD23
Titel	Fighting Indians of the West
Auteur	Schmitt, Martin F. & Dee Brown
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York : Bonanza Books
Jaar van uitgave	1948
ISBN10	0517090872
ISBN13	9780517090879
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original red cloth, dust jacket, illusrated with numerous b/w photographs, 4to.
Samenvatting	A picture history of the indian wars, with 270 photographs, sketches and paintings. "I WILL GO NOW AND I WILL FIGHT YOU. AS long as I live I will fight you for the last hunting grounds of my people." With these words. Red Cloud, Chief of the Oglala Sioux, began the bitter wars over the buffalo lands so sacred and so necessary to the Indians. Two HUNDRED AND SEVENTY authentic photographs and sketches and a running narrative of rare simplicity and power make up this story of the struggle between the United States and the western Indian tribes which chose to fight rather than to go tamely on reservations. The pictures have been brought together from many sources, and for the first time present a contemporary pictorial record of the chiefs, the scouts, the historic Army posts, ... (Lees verder)battles and skirmishes, from Red Cloud's attack on Fort Phil Kearny in 1866 down to the day of final tragedy at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, December 29, 1890. THE AUTHORS HAVE SUCCEEDED in making their story objective and fair to both sides, as well as vivid \| and exciting. This is not only good history - it is thrilling narrative and drama. The folklore of America contains no more poignant symbols than the shrilling of Qarryowen from the trumpets of the Seventh Cavalry as Black Kettle slumps from his pony into the shallow ford of the Washita -George Armstrong Custer lonely on a little hill as the Cheyennes and Sioux close in to revenge Black Kettle's death-the figure of White Bear, the Kiowa, staring longingly out the window of his cell at Huntsville, Texas as the hunting season draws on-the implacable face of Geronimo, the Apache. No BOOK ON THE INDIAN WARS between 1866 and the last war whoop in 1890 gives the reader so real a sense of what it was like to live and fight on the old frontier.
Pagina's	362
Conditie	Goed — Remnants of glue on endpapers and flaps dust jacket.
Prijs	€ 9,00

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