Anthony R McGinnis

Counting Coup and Cutting Horses

Intertribal Warfare on the Northern Plains, 1738-1889

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published: Evergreen, Colo.: Cordillera Press, c1990.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9780803234550
• ISBN-10: 0803234554
• Artikelnr.: 29919882

Autorenporträt

Anthony R. McGinnis is a historian and former high school teacher whose research in intertribal warfare has taken him all over the West. He has published articles in numerous historical journals, including the Journal of the West, Montana: The Magazine of Western History, and the Red River Valley Historical Review.

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Acknowledgements
Preface
CHAPTER ONE - From Time Immemorial . . . Deadly Enemies: Intertribal
Warfare, 1738-1800
CHAPTER TWO - Killed Them Like Birds: Explorers, Traders, and Intensified
Warfare, 1804-1810
CHAPTER THREE - Very Impatient of Insult: The Growing Complexity of
Warfare, 1810-1830
CHAPTER FOUR - Their Name Is A Terror: Warfare in Blackfoot and Crow
Country, 1830-1850
CHAPTER FIVE - War Is the Breath of Their Nostrils: The Sioux Advance on
the Eastern Plains, 1830-1850
CHAPTER SIX - Disregard Their Treaty Obligations: Early Treaties and the
Sioux Advance, 1851-1865
CHAPTER SEVEN - Scourge of the Missouri: Warfare in the Age of Sioux
Suzerainty, 1865-1877
CHAPTER EIGHT - Superior in Daring and Enterprise: The Climax of Warfare,
1865-1877
CHAPTER NINE - A Source of Great Apprehension and Anxiety: The End of Sioux
Suzerainty, 1877-1881
CHAPTER TEN - Those Days of Which I Now Only Dream: The End of Intertribal
Warfare, 1881-1889
Bibliographical Essay
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index