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Indian Wars under the Lead of Sitting Bull: Lakota Resistance, the Great Plains Frontier, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn - Couverture souple

Boyd, James P.

 
9788028370435: Indian Wars under the Lead of Sitting Bull: Lakota Resistance, the Great Plains Frontier, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Synopsis

Indian Wars under the Lead of Sitting Bull offers a dramatic nineteenth-century account of the Plains conflicts, centering on Sitting Bull's leadership, the resistance of the Lakota and allied peoples, and the military campaigns that culminated in episodes such as the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Written in the vigorous prose of popular historical narration, the book belongs to a period when American frontier history was being shaped into national memory, often through martial description, moral reflection, and biographical portraiture. James P. Boyd was an American writer, editor, and public man whose historical works sought to make recent events intelligible to a broad readership. His interest in political biography, national expansion, and public affairs helps explain his attraction to the subject: the Indian Wars stood, for his generation, at the intersection of military history, federal policy, settlement, and the contested meanings of civilization and sovereignty. Readers should approach this volume both as a narrative of conflict and as a document of its era. It is especially valuable for those interested in how late nineteenth-century Americans interpreted Indigenous resistance and frontier warfare. Read critically, it illuminates not only Sitting Bull's historical significance but also the assumptions, anxieties, and ambitions of the society that wrote about him.

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