The Great Chiefs (Time-Life, The Old West Series) pdf torrent

pdf / English / 1975 Time-Life / 240 pages / 44.3 MB

"The Great Chiefs is one of twenty-seven volumes in the popular Time-Life book series The Old West. This book portrays the lives of Native American leaders and their varied responses to the white settlement of the American West. The book mainly focuses on Chief Little Mountain of the Kiowas, Cochise, Geronimo, Quanah Parker, Washakie, Chief Joseph, and Sitting Bull. Numerous other chiefs are portrayed as well. Other topics covered include the Battle of the Rosebud, the Battle of Little Bighorn, the Modoc War, the emergence of the ghost dance religion, and the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. Author Benjamin Capps skillfully describes how the more numerous, powerful, and cohesive whites overcame the grit and courage of Geronimo, Chief Joseph, and Sitting Bull. The development of the high powered Sharps rifle enabled white buffalo hunters to slaughter the Indians' food source; the buffalo herds, once numbering 30 million animals, would be reduced to fewer than 1,000 beasts by 1886. The fast-moving narrative and numerous contemporary photographs and paintings make The Great Chiefs an excellent depiction of American Indian leaders and their role in shaping the history of the Old West."

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