| Plain Enemies: Best True Stories of the Frontier West Contributor(s): Scott, Bob (Author), Scott, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0870043641 ISBN-13: 9780870043642 Publisher: Caxton Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1995 Annotation: The four decades between 1830 and 1876 was an era of Western expansion in North America. The United States government encouraged its citizens to civilize the great untamed wilderness from the Ohio Valley to the Pacific. Natives, realizing the flood of immigrants would change their way of life, resisted. Bob Scott presents narratives of faith and fear, heroism and horror, strength and stupidity, love and hatred. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Native American - History | North American - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 978.02 |
| LCCN: 95004103 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.03" W x 9.03" (1.17 lbs) 314 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The years 1830-1870 were years of expansion west as the US Government encouraged patriots to civilize its great untamed wilderness. But the West was already occupied - by native citizens. The conflicts that ensued are legendary, but many stories are yet to be told. The author brings many of these more obscure stories to light. |