TEBBEL : The compact history of the Indian Wars (fülszöveg)
This is the first one-volume account of the extraordinary wilderness conflicts that for three hundred years raged across our nation's expanding frontier. These, the strangest wars in our history, were in many ways the most critical in the destiny of the nation.
John Tebbel has written a thorough military history that follows every skirmish, every campaign — from the first encounter of John Smith with Chief Powhatan in 1607 to the last abortive uprising of Chief Sitting Bull and the Sioux at Wounded Knee in 1890.
The Indian Wars, necessary for our survival but tragic for the Indian people, were responsible for the development of the U. S. Army and for the now famous expeditions of Lewis and Clark, Pike and Fremont, and the exploits of these men are thoroughly and objectively treated.
The author is no mere chronicler. This is narrative history at its best, an account that engenders excitement as it progresses. Each minor conflict is linked to the greater movements of American history that gave it meaning: the battle for political supremacy that led to the American Revolution, the acquisition of the Northwest Territory, the Louisiana Purchase, the Civil War, and the Mexican War. All the familiar and evocative names — Fallen Timbers, Crazy Horse, Fort Laramie, Custer and Little Big Horn, Geronimo — fall into historical perspective.
The Compact History of the Indian Wars, with its full bibliography and index, is the culmination of years of research by an acknowledged expert in Indian history. John Tebbel's work, illustrated throughout with original line drawings by Gil Walker, is the definitive account of this least-known chapter in the military history of the United States.
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