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My life and experiences among our hostile Indians : a record of personal observations, adventures, and campaigns among the Indians of the great West, with some account of their life, habits, traits, religion, ceremonies, dress, savage instincts, and customs in peace and war /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hartford, Conn. :
A.D. Worthington & Co.,
©1907.
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| Colección: | North American Indian thought and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- My boyhood and early home-school and college days-appointed as a cadet to West Point Military Academy
- Chasing Indians through the Everglades of Florida-Indian fighters who afterwards became great military leaders in the Civil War
- Campaigning against the Seminoles
- Sketcy of my military career during the Civil War-Attitude of our wild Indians during that period
- Great uprising of hostile Indians in the Northwest-The terrible Sioux massacre in Minnesota
- Assigned to duty among the bloodthirsty Apaches
- Campaigning in Arizona-journeying across the "Alkali Desert"-life among the Pimas and Maricopas
- Meeting General Crook-Indians pleading for the return of their children-hoe a momentous question was decided
- Selecting a delegation of wild Apaches to visit Washington
- I set our to find the notroious Chief, Cochise
- Scouting for the Apache Chief, Cochise
- Assigned to the Department of the Columbia, embracing all the Northwest-the Modocs and the Modoc War
- My arrival at Fort Lapwwai
- Among the Columbia River Indians-"Cut-Mouth John"
- Opening of hostilities-Battle of White Bird canyon and the Clear Water
- Pursuit and defeat of the Indians-surrender of Chief Joseph
- Starting for Alaska
- The story of Marcus Whitman
- Campaigning on the Upper Columbia-experiences with Moses, War-Chief of the Spokanes
- Adventures among the Bannocks
- Opening of the Pi-Ute and Bannock War.
- In active field service again-Sarah Winnemucca's remarkable ride
- The Battle of Birch Creek
- Among the Sheep-Eaters
- Among the Spokanes-I am welcomed by Chief Lot
- Personal experiences among the Crows
- Life among the Flatheads
- Life among the warlike Sioux
- The Messiah crase among the Sioux-Indian dreamers and the Ghost Dance
- In the country of the Cheyennes-massacre of Custer
- General Mackenzie's fight with the Northern Cheyennes
- Squaw men-home life of white men who have marries Indian women
- Characteristics of American Indians.