Death song : the last of the Indian wars /
An account of the Western Indian wars of the closing decades of the nineteenth century, focusing on individual white and Indian leaders and their roles in negotiation, battle, and extermination.
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Garden City, N. Y. :
Doubleday,
1976.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Death song
- The great western pioneer
- Let us have peace
- Red raiders
- Dishonest words and broken promises
- Red moon
- Red sun
- A breeze that whispered
- Bewildereing kaleidoscope
- Happiness and harshness
- Ability to project
- Inspection along the butterfield trail
- Pride before destruction
- Sentence of death
- Triumph and suffering
- Like fighting wild animals in a trap
- Old enemies
- Dakota blizzard
- Stronger medicine
- Inexorability
- A good day to die
- Suffering much
- Long black hair
- Like the wind
- Time at its work
- Epilogue: red ants, coyotes, and cattlemen.