The contested plains : Indians, goldseekers, & the rush to Colorado /

Discusses the rise of the Native American horse culture, the discovery of gold in the Rocky Mountains, and the Indian Wars of the 1860's.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: West, Elliott, 1945-
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, ©1998.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1858.
Geschichte 1858
Indians of North America > Great Plains > History.
Human ecology > Great Plains.
Peuples autochtones > Grandes Plaines > Histoire.
Écologie humaine > Grandes Plaines.
Gold mines and mining.
Human ecology.
Indians of North America.
Goldrausch
Plainsindianer
Soziale Situation
Indianen.
Gold Rush.
Human ecology > Great Plains > History.
Great Plains > History.
Colorado > Gold discoveries.
Grandes Plaines > Histoire.
Colorado > Découvertes d'or.
Colorado.
Great Plains.
Staat Colorado
Plainsindianer.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: A scrap and a panic
  • Part 1: Visions. The Old World ; Frontiers and visions ; The called out people
  • Part 2: Gold rush. The gold ; The gathering ; The rush
  • Part 3: Power. Path of empire ; On the road to a flourishing mountain state ; The people of the centre ; The miseries of failure
  • Epilogue: Stories in the teeth of life.

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