Beschreibung:
Elliott West is Professor of American History at the University of Arkansas.
In this original and thought-provoking addition to the Pivotal Moments in American History series, Elliot West combines military, political, and social history to show how the battles of 1876 and 1877 were a major transitional point in the evolution of Indian policy.
1: Real People; 2: Marks of Friendship; 3: The Place of the Butterflies; 4: "God Named This Land to Us"; 5: Gold, Prophecy, and the Steal Treaty; 6: "Conquering by Kindness"; 7: "It Will Have to Be War!"; 8: Maneuvering and Scrapping; 9: Ways of Life, Ways of War; 10: Leaving Home; 11: Big Hole; 12: Toward Buffalo Country; 13: War in Wonderland; 14: "The Best Skirmishers in the World"; 15: Toward the Medicine Line; 16: Under the Bear's Paw; 17: Going to Hell; 18: Eeikish Pah and Return