Chiefs and Generals : Nine Men Who Shaped the American West.
Title:
Chiefs and Generals : Nine Men Who Shaped the American West.
Author:
Riley, Glenda.
ISBN:
9781555918064
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Series Foreword vii -- Acknowledgments viii -- Introduction ix -- 1. Lakota Chief Red Cloud 1 -- 2. Apache Chief Victorio 19 -- 3. Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce 43 -- 4. O. O. Howard 63 -- 5. Geronimo 85 -- 6. George Crook 105 -- 7. General George Armstrong Custer 129 -- 8. Ranald Mackenzie 159 -- 9. Nelson A. Miles 189 -- Sources and Further Reading 207 -- Contributors 229 -- Index 231.
Abstract:
The fifth book in the Notable Westerners Series by Etulain and Riley, Chiefs and Generals presents a collection of newly written essays focusing on noteworthy Indian tribal and white military leaders of the nineteenth-century West. Profiles include Red Cloud, Geronimo, Chief Joseph, Victorio, O. O. Howard, George Custer, George Crook, Ranald Mackenzie, and Nelson Miles.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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