The Conquest of the Coeur D'Alenes, Spokanes and Palouses
Author: Benjamin Franklin Manring
Publisher: Spokane, Wash. : J.W. Graham
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 346
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Publisher: Spokane, Wash. : J.W. Graham
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 346
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Roderick Sprague
Publisher: Northwest Anthropology
Published:
Total Pages: 97
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Preliminary Bibliography of Washington Archaeology, Roderick Sprague
Author: Benjamin Franklin Manring
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 364
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Marshall Utley
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1967-01-01
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780803295506
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Frontiersmen in Blue is a comprehensive history of the achievements and failures of the United States Regular and Volunteer Armies that confronted the Indian tribes of the West in the two decades between the Mexican War and the close of the Civil War. Between 1848 and 1865 the men in blue fought nearly all of the western tribes. Robert Utley describes many of these skirmishes in consummate detail, including descriptions of garrison life that was sometimes agonizingly isolated, sometimes caught in the lightning moments of desperate battle.
Author: Donald L. Cutler
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2016-07-15
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0806156260
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Col. George Wright’s campaign against the Yakima, Spokane, Coeur d’Alene, Palouse, and other Indian peoples of eastern Washington Territory was intended to punish them for a recent attack on another U.S. Army force. Wright had once appeared to respect the Indians of the Upper Columbia Plateau, but in 1858 he led a brief war noted for its violence, bloodshed, and summary trials and executions. Today, many critics view his actions as war crimes, but among white settlers and politicians of the time, Wright was a patriotic hero who helped open the Inland Northwest to settlement. “Hang Them All” offers a comprehensive account of Wright’s campaigns and explores the controversy surrounding his legacy. Over thirty days, Wright’s forces defeated a confederation of Plateau warriors in two battles, destroyed their food supplies, slaughtered animals, burned villages, took hostages, and ordered the hanging of sixteen prisoners. Seeking the reasons for Wright’s turn toward mercilessness, Cutler asks hard questions: If Wright believed he was limiting further bloodshed, why were his executions so gruesomely theatrical and cruel? How did he justify destroying food supplies and villages and killing hundreds of horses? Was Wright more violent than his contemporaries, or did his actions reflect a broader policy of taking Indian lands and destroying Native cultures? Stripped of most of their territory, the Plateau tribes nonetheless survived and preserved their cultures. With Wright’s reputation called into doubt, some northwesterners question whether an army fort and other places in the region should be named for him. Do historically based names honor an undeserving murderer, or prompt a valuable history lesson? In examining contemporary and present-day treatments of Wright and the incident, “Hang Them All” adds an important, informed voice to this continuing debate.
Author: David Hodges Stratton
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection features essays about the prehistory, history, geography, and architecture of the Inland Pacific Northwest by eight national and regional scholars: Donald W. Meinig, John Fahey, Albro Martin, Carlos A. Schwantes, Wayne D. Rasmussen, Henry Matthews, Clifford E. Trafzer, and Harvey S. Rice. --From publisher's description.
Author: Washington State University. Laboratory of Anthropology
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Published: 1957
Total Pages: 100
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