Plain Enemies: Best True Stories of the Frontier WestCaxton Press, 1995 - 314 páginas Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press The years 1830-1870 were years of expansion west as the U.S. government encouraged patriots to civilize its great untamed wilderness. But the West was already occupied-by Native peoples. The conflicts that ensued are legendary, but many stories are yet to be told. Veteran author Bob Scott brings many of these more obscure stories to light. |
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The Meeker Massacre | 37 |
The World Aflame | 61 |
The Battle of Beecher Island | 81 |
Incredible Survival | 125 |
The Fetterman Massacre | 149 |
The Battle of Adobe Walls | 175 |
Custer Enters the War Washita | 191 |
Disaster at Powder River | 233 |
Little Big Horn | 249 |
Bibliography | 285 |
Index | 289 |
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