The American WestScribner, 1994 - 461 עמודים "Beginning with the demise of the Native Americans of the Plains, Brown depicts the onrush of the burgeoning cattle trade and the waves of immigrants who ultimately "settled" the land. In the retelling of this oft-told saga, Brown has demonstrated once again his abilities as a master storyteller and an entertaining popular historian. Byturns heroic, tragic, and even humorous, The American West brings to life American tragedy and triumph in the years from 1840 to the turn of the century, and a roster of characters both great and small: Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Dull Knife, Crazy Horse, Captain Jack, John H. Tunstall, Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Wyatt Earp, the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, Wild Bill Hickok, Charles Goodnight, Oliver Loving, Buffalo Bill, and many others. The American West is about cattle and the railroads; it is about settlers who came to claim a land not originally their own and how they slowly imposed law and order on these wild and untamed places; and it is about the wanton destruction of the Native American way of life. This is epic history at its best and popular history at its most readable" (from Amazon.com). |
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עמוד 102
... Custer , who came to the West with the cold - blooded intention of making a glorious career out of the business of slaying Indians . Ever since the closing days of the Civil War when George Custer was a much - publicized military idol ...
... Custer , who came to the West with the cold - blooded intention of making a glorious career out of the business of slaying Indians . Ever since the closing days of the Civil War when George Custer was a much - publicized military idol ...
עמוד 107
... Custer withdrew from the Washita swiftly , fearing retaliation from the Kiowas and other Cheyenne camps nearby . Major Joel Elliott and a detachment of eighteen men , pursuing the fleeing warriors , had all been surrounded and slain by ...
... Custer withdrew from the Washita swiftly , fearing retaliation from the Kiowas and other Cheyenne camps nearby . Major Joel Elliott and a detachment of eighteen men , pursuing the fleeing warriors , had all been surrounded and slain by ...
עמוד 136
... Custer , the squaw - killer . He had been sent from the south to do his work among the Sioux . Crazy Horse attacked Custer on the Yel- lowstone on August 11 , 1873. But it was as a flea bite to a charging white bear . General Sheridan ...
... Custer , the squaw - killer . He had been sent from the south to do his work among the Sioux . Crazy Horse attacked Custer on the Yel- lowstone on August 11 , 1873. But it was as a flea bite to a charging white bear . General Sheridan ...
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LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS | 13 |
LIST OF MAPS | 15 |
INTRODUCTION | 17 |
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