Title: The long death; the last days of the Plains Indian
Authors: Andrist, Ralph K.
Publisher: Macmillan
Year: 1964
Subjects: Indians of North America Wars Great Plains.; Indians of North America Great Plains History
Abstract: Beginning and ending with the massacre at Wounded Knee, the last major battle between the Plains Indians and the United States.
Contents: Pt. 1. As long as the grass shall grow -- pt. 2. Massacre in Minnesota. "Let them eat grass" -- Murder on the prairie -- The gate to the valley -- The state undertaker and his gravediggers -- "Have mercy upon us, O Jehovah" -- pt. 3. Nits make lice. Pikes peak or bust -- "Kill and destroy -- wherever found" -- "All acquitted themselves well" -- pt. 4. Give me eighty men. John Bozeman's road -- Fort Philip Kearny -- "Under no circumstances pursue over Lodge Trail Ridge" -- A state of siege -- pt. 5. The great road. General Hancock's war -- "We are beyond all human aid" -- Custer's first stand -- pt. 6. Ten million dead buffalo. Philanthropists and warriors -- The time of the hide hunters -- The Red River War -- 1874-1875 -- pt. 7. Diversion in the Far West. How to start a small war -- "Treachery is inherent in the indian character" -- The time of retribution -- pt. 8. The road to the Little Bighorn. The techniques of treaty-breaking -- Whome the Gods would destroy -- "Come on, Dakotas, its a good way to die" -- "Now, Custer, don't be greedy" -- "For God's sake, Benteen, help me. I've lost half my men" -- A victory too complete -- pt. 9. The last small wars. "I love that land more than all the rest of the world" -- "A number of insubordinate, cunning, treacherous indians" -- Ghost dance and Gatling guns.