San Antonio College Library

"With the end of the Civil War, the nation recommenced its expansion onto traditional Indian tribal lands, setting off a wide-ranging conflict that would last more than three decades. In an exploration of the wars and negotiations that destroyed tribal ways of life even as they made possible the emergence of the modern United States, Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates the encroachment...

"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." Dust cover.

This atlas represents a modest effort to examine the Army's campaigns against the Sioux, one of the great Indian tribes of the American West. The three Sioux wars covered in this atlas offer a variety of historical case studies for the student of low-intensity conflict. The difficulties of using volunteer forces to quell a rebellion of suppressed peoples are investigated in the 1862 campaign in Minnesota. The 1866-68 Sioux War in Wyoming and Montana...

Photographs show the Indians as they lived and dressed one hundred years ago. Text describes life on the Plains at the time of the portraits, highlighting raids, retaliatory massacres, and treaties.

Fifteen sketches of Army and sporting life, chiefly in the western part of the United States and in northern Mexico.

From 1869 to 1883 General Sheridan commanded most of the Western frontier. His soldiers actively engaged Indians of the northern and southern Great Plains. This is the story of a man who ruthlessly killed all Indians, including women and children and played a decisive role in the U.S. government's long campaign against American Indians.