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Plains Indian Raiders: The Final Phases of Warfare from the Arkansas to the Red River [Paperback]

Wilbur Sturtevant Nye (Author)
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May 15, 1974

From primary sources collected over some thirty years, both textual and photographic, Wilbur S. Nye tells the story of the military subjugation of the Plains Indians and their removal to reservations in Indian Territory.

Complementing the text, which covers a segment of American history that has heretofore been told chiefly in fragments, are the superb photographs of William S. Soule. As fine a craftsman as Mathew Brady, Soule made many photographs of the aboriginal red men. These pictures, showing exactly how the Indian looked, what they wore, and how they lived, are published here in a relatively complete collection (some near duplicates are omitted) for the first time.


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About the Author

Captain W. S. Nye (more recently Major W. S. Nye, U.S.A) was born in Canton, Ohio. As a boy he moved with his parents to California and can remember when Hollywood was a barley field. Upon the entrance of the United States into the World War, he enlisted in the ambulance service. Soon, however, he received an appointment to West Point where he was graduated in 1920. Major Nye has seen service at Camp Knox, Kentucky; Camp Lewis, Washington; Schofield Barracks, Hawaii; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Fort Sill, Oklahoma; and in Washington, D.C. He was stationed at Fort Sill in 1933, as a student in the advanced course of the Field Artillery School, when he began the researches in Indian history that led to the writing of Carbine and Lance.

A frequent contributor to the military journals and the author of many featured articles on western history, he is now editor of The Field Artillery Journal.


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  • Paperback: 433 pages
  • Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press (May 15, 1974)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0806111755
  • ISBN-13: 978-0806111759
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Photographic Reference on Southern Plains Indian History, December 14, 2004
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"Plains Indian Raiders" by Wilbut Nye is a good addition to your library if you are an American military history buff or one profoundly interested in the history of the Native Americans of the Southern Plains. Mr. Nye's accounts are rather dry and too anglo-centric for my taste, but I purchased this book primarily for the extraordinary collection of photographs by William S. Soule which comprise about half of the book. These photographs of many of the principals in the book, and related subjects, help bring to life stories about the subjects of those photographs when reading other books which deal more intimately with Southern Plains Indian culture, such as "The Ten Grandmothers" by Alice Lee Marriott, "The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains" by Ernest Wallace and E. Adamson Hoebel, or even Mr. Nye's "Bad Medicine & Good: Tales of the Kiowas". The first two and a half stars of my rating are for the book as a whole. The remaining 1 and a half stars are due solely to the section containing Mr. Soule's photographs.
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3.0 out of 5 stars a worthwhile read, August 31, 2003
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a fair well-balanced guide to amerind warfare that neither glorifies nor condemns such
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Nomadic wild Indians created such an uproar along the overland routes through Kansas in the post-Civil War years that the government at length had to move them south into Indian Territory. Read the first page
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revenge raid, brevet major general, post quartermaster, post trader, peace faction
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