THE PHRASE “Indian wars” usually conjures up images of a John Ford movie: blue-clad cavalrymen battling native warriors in the American West. But long before the Western tribes made their last ...

A just-discovered eyewitness account provides startling new evidence about who fired the shot that sparked the French and Indian War Secrets of ... a woolen officer’s coat showing his allegiance ...

Examine one of the costliest and most dramatic American Indian wars in U.S. history. The Modoc War of 1872 to 1873 was one of the costliest American Indian wars in U.S. history, considering the ...

a retired foreign service officer who has written more than a dozen books on the Civil War and the American West, provides a sweeping, sharp and stylish history of the Indian Wars of the second ...

Many photographs and drawings are included. This hefty, "all-encompassing single-volume history of the Western Indian wars" brings many different 19th-century campaigns into compressed but sharp ...