Death in the desert
Subtitle: the fifty years' war for the great Southwest
By: by Paul I. Wellman.
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Published: 1935
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Wars.; Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895.; Apache Indians.; Indians of North America -- Southwest, New.; Southwest, New -- History.
Description: The Apache Indians and the white settlers came face to face after the Mexican War, when the migrations across the continent reached the Southwest. In depicting the long, bitter resistance of the Apaches, Death in the Desert reveals incidents that provoked their undying hatred of whites. This rousing narrative history by Paul I. Wellman begins in 1837 with the rise to tribal leadership of Mangas Coloradas and ends in 1886 with the surrender of Geronimo. For a half century the dust never settles as U.S. troops fight the Apaches in Arizona and New Mexico and defeat the single uprisings of the Navajos and Pueblos. Two chapters describe the Modoc War in northern California from 1871 to 1873.
Table of contents: title: Foreword.; title: The purging of Santa Rita del Cobre, 1822-1840.; title: Blood in the pueblo, 1846.; title: An eye for an eye, 1846-1862.; title: Extermination, 1862-1871.; title: The war in the lava beds, 1871-1873.; title: Nan-tan Lupan, 1871-1876.; title: The hunting of Victorio, 1877-1880.; title: Warriors without leaders, 1880-1883.; title: The Geronimo war, 1883-1886.; title: Bibliography (p. 277-279)