Thank the Euclid Public Library. It was on their new books shelf. The author's from Arizona, so he grew up with all the Old West legends. People who love the old stories usually retell them better than those just in it for a buck.
I might mention this to my sister, who would read this book. It sounds great, and we need to revisit the American experience in far better detail. As for my own reading, I thought I misplaced a book that I recently found, only after I started reading Whitney Web's 2-volume intensive read "One Nation, Under Blackmail" !
Thank you for sharing another most interesting book a companion to your most interesting suggestion on the works about pirates - both of which I have savored......This particular work and the topic of the last 'major' Indian War evokes an eventful antecedent about U.S. Grant....He had much experience prior to the American Civil War in his experiences with the War with Mexico, where many of his Civil War colleagues honed their sabers. I think Grant's reflections on that war are noteworthy in that he thought the goals were to expand slavery.....Don't know if he pondered that much about the Indian wars - they were omitted in his memoirs...The aftermath of the The Little Big Horn battle saw the Indians removal in the late 1870's to what became my hometown in Ponca City, OK....But Chief Standing Bear lead the tribe south and his son (+) perished along the way with the request that his body be returned and buried in his homeland...The Poncas compliance with the request led the Indians to return to Nebraska and President Hayes assigned the U.S. calvary to forcibly removed them, an episode establishing the landmark USSC determination (1879) of whether or not Indians were 'legally' persons and had the right to habeus corpus...Standing Bear statues, memorials are throughout the US to include my hometown which has a park/statue in his honor and also the US Capitol.
I did not know about Standing Bear. What a great story.
Grant was the first civil rights President in some ways. He really did want to deliver on the promises made to the freed slaves, which is why he sent the Army in to enforce Reconstruction. As I understand it, he wanted to keep the treaty with Sitting Bull, but he wasn't willing to order the Army to stop the miners rushing to the Black Hills.
He also allowed Sheridan's endangering the buffalo as a species in order to force southern plains tribes like the Comanche onto reservations, so his track record with the Indians is a mostly negative one. Are there any presidents with a good one?
As someone who loves Old West history,this book will be essential reading.Thanks for the tip,OB.
Thank the Euclid Public Library. It was on their new books shelf. The author's from Arizona, so he grew up with all the Old West legends. People who love the old stories usually retell them better than those just in it for a buck.
I might mention this to my sister, who would read this book. It sounds great, and we need to revisit the American experience in far better detail. As for my own reading, I thought I misplaced a book that I recently found, only after I started reading Whitney Web's 2-volume intensive read "One Nation, Under Blackmail" !
1876 was one helluva summer! Sounds like a good read for armchair historians.
Thank you for sharing another most interesting book a companion to your most interesting suggestion on the works about pirates - both of which I have savored......This particular work and the topic of the last 'major' Indian War evokes an eventful antecedent about U.S. Grant....He had much experience prior to the American Civil War in his experiences with the War with Mexico, where many of his Civil War colleagues honed their sabers. I think Grant's reflections on that war are noteworthy in that he thought the goals were to expand slavery.....Don't know if he pondered that much about the Indian wars - they were omitted in his memoirs...The aftermath of the The Little Big Horn battle saw the Indians removal in the late 1870's to what became my hometown in Ponca City, OK....But Chief Standing Bear lead the tribe south and his son (+) perished along the way with the request that his body be returned and buried in his homeland...The Poncas compliance with the request led the Indians to return to Nebraska and President Hayes assigned the U.S. calvary to forcibly removed them, an episode establishing the landmark USSC determination (1879) of whether or not Indians were 'legally' persons and had the right to habeus corpus...Standing Bear statues, memorials are throughout the US to include my hometown which has a park/statue in his honor and also the US Capitol.
I did not know about Standing Bear. What a great story.
Grant was the first civil rights President in some ways. He really did want to deliver on the promises made to the freed slaves, which is why he sent the Army in to enforce Reconstruction. As I understand it, he wanted to keep the treaty with Sitting Bull, but he wasn't willing to order the Army to stop the miners rushing to the Black Hills.
He also allowed Sheridan's endangering the buffalo as a species in order to force southern plains tribes like the Comanche onto reservations, so his track record with the Indians is a mostly negative one. Are there any presidents with a good one?