War Cries on Horseback: The Story of the Indian Wars of the Great Plains

335 pp. Includes 22 black & white photographs. With detailed accounts of such famous encounters as the Sioux Uprising at New Ulm, the Battle of Wounded Knee, the Fetterman and Sand Creek Massacres, Custer and the Little Big Horn, the Battle of the Lava Beds, and all the other major engagements of the Indian Wars, War Cries on Horseback traces the half century of warfare which made up the Indian's last desperate resistance to the encroachment of white "civilization."--jacket