Following the Indian wars : the story of the newspaper correspondents among the Indian campaigners /

"Historians and military men have had their say about the Indian wars, which lasted from 1866 to 1891. But the newspaper correspondents who took to the field with troops now get their innings--if not the last word. And what they have to say, as revealed by Oliver Knight, himself a former newspa...

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Main Author: Knight, Oliver.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [1993]
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Table of Contents:
  • Indian fighting is hardest kind of war
  • Indian war beginning in west
  • Custer attacks at Washita
  • Modocs hold off U.S. Army
  • Crook fights Sioux at Rosebud
  • Custer command wiped out
  • Terry takes field again
  • Sioux push "fighting Irish pencil pusher"
  • Where are the Indians?
  • Later and lesser campaigns
  • Closing the wire.