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Yellow Wolf
Caxton Press 1940; US$ 16.95Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press The Nez Perce campaign is among the most famous in the brief and bloody history of the Indian wars of the West. Yellow Wolf was a contemporary of Chief Joseph and a leader among his own men. His story is one that had never been told and will never be told again. ... more...
Massacres of the Mountains
Digital Scanning, Inc. 2001; US$ 4.95J.P. Dunn wrote Massacres of the Mountains in an attempt to separate historical fact from sensational fiction and to verify the problems that plagued the Indian tribes in this country of years. He doesn't assign blame, but lets it fall where it belongs by meticulous research and the accurate, unbiased depiction of the true causes and subsequent... more...
The History of King Phillip, Sovereign Chief of the Wampanoags. Including the Early History of the Settlers of New England.
Digital Scanning, Inc. 2001; US$ 4.95Metacomet, younger son of Massasoit of the Wampanoags, was also known as King Philip. In 1662 he succeeded his brother, Wamsutta, as sachem or chief of the Wampanoag Indian tribe. Metacomet earnestly attempted to maintain his father's peaceful policies with the Colonists, but the English pushed ever farther into Wampanoag lands, imposing their laws... more...
Gang of Five
Simon & Schuster 2001; US$ 28.95In Gang of Five, bestselling author Nina J. Easton adds an important element to the history of American politics in the last thirty years. This is the story of the other, less well known segment of the baby-boom generation. These are young conservative activists who arrived on campus in the 1970s in rebellion against everything "sixties" and went... more...
The First Way of War
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 22.00This book explores the evolution of American war, showing how the first war waged against Indian noncombatant populations and their agricultural resources became the standard method early Americans employed and which ultimately defined their military heritage. more...
The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke
University of North Texas Press 2003; US$ 39.96John Gregory Bourke kept a set of diaries beginning as a young cavalry lieutenant in Arizona in 1872 and ending the evening before his death in 1896. This work begins with Bourke's years as aide-de-camp to General Crook during the Apache campaigns and in dealings with Cochise. more...
A Terrible Glory
Little, Brown and Company 2008; US$ 9.99In June of 1876, on a desolate hill above a winding river called "the Little Bighorn," George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by almost 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this devastating loss caused a public uproar, and those in positions of power promptly began to point fingers in order to avoid responsibility.... more...
Killing for Land in Early California
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 29.95The California frontier wars gave land and gold to Whites and reservations to the few surviving Native Americans. Through eyewitness accounts this highly researched work brings to light the graft, greed, and conflicting roles played by the US Army, the St more...
Altered States
Reaktion Books 2006; US$ 23.95Red states versus blue states. Metro versus retro. North or South, East or West. Pundits, politicians, and social scientists love to carve out categories in an attempt to make sense of political and social divisions that run through the American landscape. As the home of nearly 300 million people spread over approximately 3.7 million square miles of... more...
American Indian Wars
Pocket Essentials 2009; US$ 5.99At the beginning of the 1840s the proud tribes of the North American Indians looked across the plains at the seemingly unstoppable expansion of the white man's West. During the decades of conflict that followed, as the new world pushed onward, the Indians saw their way of life disappear before their eyes. Over the next 40 years they clung to a dream... more...









