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Subject: FRONTIER REGULARS, THE U.S. ARMY & THE INDIANS
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 21:58:58 EST

FRONTIER REGULARS, THE UNITED STATES ARMY AND THE INDIAN, 1866-1891.(c) 1973
By Robert M. Utley. The Macmillan Wars of the United States
Series. Hardback, dustjacket, vg++, 466 pages, index, bibliography, sketches,
government documents, and photographs. In 1890 eight and one half million
settlers occupied the North American Indians' former hunting grounds-in 1866
there
had been fewer than 2 million. By 1880 the 13 million buffalo that had
darkened the
plains in 1866 had disappeared. The Regular Army had secured the West. The
Army's campaign against the Indian was directed by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh
Sherman, hero of Atlanta, and in 1866 ruler of a military domain stretching
west
from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains and N. from Texas to the British
boundary. Operating independently of the U.S. War Dept., his army fought to
secure
the West for over a 3rd of a century--and many of its officers would be
forever
associated with the bloodiest battles of the Indian Wars: Maj. Gen. Philip
Henry
Sheridan, Gen. Winstead Scott Hancock, Lt. Col. George A. Custer. Treaties
were
signed and broken. The Indians resisted the reservations--hostilities raged
on. The
The Red River War, Sitting Bull's War & Little Big Horn, the Conquest of the
Sioux,
defeat of the Nez Perce, the Mexican border conflicts, War in TX, Geronimo
and
the Apache Wars, the deperate Ghost Dance phenomenon--all were manifestations
of the Indians' refusal to submit to false treaties and abandon his lands. In
Dec. 1890,
the Sioux died at Wounded Knee. The struggles to secure the West had ended. A

heavy book. Previous owner's stamp. $25 postpaid.

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