num_pages: 422
description: Recounts the struggles, triumphs, and defeats of both Indians and whites as they pursued their clashing dreams in Colorado during the mid-1800s. After centuries of many peoples fashioning their own cultures on the plains, the Cheyenne and other tribes found in the horse the power to create a heroic way of life that dominated the grasslands. The discovery of gold by whites challenged that way of life and led finally to the Indian Wars of the 1860s. Includes b&amp;w photos and illustrations. For general readers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
language: English
title: The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado
titlecomplete: The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado
genres: Historical, Grad School, The United States Of America, Westerns, Nonfiction, School, Native Americans, American History, Native American History, History
ratings_count: 369
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Francis Parkman Prize, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Caughey Western History Prize, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Ray Allen Billington Prize
publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas