The Indian wars of the West
- ISBN-10
- 0880298340
- ISBN-13
- 9780880298346
- Category
- Indians of North America
- Pages
- 520
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Author
- Paul Iselin Wellman
Description
Captures a time when the issue of supremacy was decided by bullets and arrows, the record of a terrible and bloody struggle, of the spirit of those days, the action, the suffering, the heroism and the despair.
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