Results for keyword: Indian Wars
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Portraits of the frontier West: A review of Western Heritage
Editor Paul Andrew Hutton gathers some award-winning articles on Western history and culture.
by Erica Wetter, Aug 07, 2011 -
This land was once their land
The Northwest is still haunted by the tragic history of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians.
by Rich Wandschneider, Oct 21, 2010 -
How the West was really won
Paul VanDevelder digs into the rotten core of the American experience in his new book, Savages & Scoundrels: The Untold Story of America's Road to Empire through Indian Territory.
by Debra Utacia Krol, Jan 31, 2010 -
Socialism and the West
Despite our reflexive fear of the word "socialism," the West was built on subsidized government efforts.
by Ed Quillen, Oct 23, 2009 -
Die with me
Three new books about the West’s Indian wars – Ned Blackhawk’s Violence Over the Land, Kingsley Bray’s Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life, and Robert W. Larson’s Gall: Lakota War Chief – seem to romanticize a violent past.
by Annie Dawid, Feb 04, 2008 -
A brief, interpretive look at the Indian Wars
Michael Blake’s new nonfiction book, Indian Yell, fails to live up to its ambitious subtitle, “The Heart of an American Insurgency,” with its quick tour of 12 battles between the U.S. Cavalry and American Indians.
by Jared Blackley, Apr 30, 2007 -
Living with the ghosts of the Indian Wars
Montana’s "Custer Country" is a region haunted by the ghosts of the Indian Wars, where towns are still named for the so-called "heroes’ responsible for massacres such as Wounded Knee
by Mary Zeiss Stange, Feb 06, 2006 -
Buffalo Calf Road Woman
In Buffalo Calf Road Woman, Rosemary and Joseph Agonito give a fictionalized account of the only woman warrior to fight at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
by Staff, Nov 28, 2005
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