The Settlers' War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s by Michno, Gregory

The Settlers' War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780870045035)

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The Settlers' War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s by Michno, Gregory

The Settlers' War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s

$24.95
The Settlers' War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s by Michno, Gregory

The Settlers' War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s

$24.95
Format: Hardcover
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"Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press"

During the decades from 1820 to 1870, the American frontier expanded two thousand miles across the trans-Mississippi West. In Texas the frontier line expanded only about two hundred miles. The supposedly irresistible European force met nearly immovable Native American resistance, sparking a brutal struggle for possession of Texas's hills and prairies that continued for decades.

During the 1860s, however, the bloodiest decade in the western Indian wars, there were no large-scale battles in Texas between the army and the Indians. Instead, the targets of the Comanches, the Kiowas, and the Apaches were generally the homesteaders out on the Texas frontier, that is, precisely those who should have been on the sidelines. Ironically, it was these noncombatants who bore the brunt of the warfare, suffering far greater losses than the soldiers supposedly there to protect them. It is this story that "The Settlers' War" tells for the first time.




Author: Gregory Michno
ISBN-10: 0870045032
ISBN-13: 9780870045035
Publisher: Caxton Press
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2011
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 12/01/2011 pg. 44

By Gregory Michno
By Gregory Michno
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Gregory Michno attended Michigan State University and did postgraduate work at the University of Northern Colorado. An award-winning author, he has written dozens of articles and several books dealing with World War II and the American West. His most recent books, "The Deadliest Indian War in the West" and "A Fate Worse than Death," were both published by Caxton Press. He lives in Longmont, Colorado.

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