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Carbine and Lance

The Story of Old Fort Sill

By: Wilbur Sturtevant Nye

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Carbine and Lance

The Story of Old Fort Sill

By: Wilbur Sturtevant Nye

Fort Sill, located in the heart of the old Kiowa-Comanche Indian country in southwestern Oklahoma, is known to a modern generation as the Field Artillery School of the United States Army. To students of American frontier history, it is known as the focal point of one of the most interesting, dramatic, and sustained series of conflicts in the records of western warfare. From 1833 until 1875, in a theater of action extending from Kansas to Mexico, the strife was almost uninterrupted. The U.S. Army, militia of Kansas, Texas Rangers, and white pioneers and traders on the one hand were arrayed against the fierce and heroic bands of the Kiowas, Comanches, Cheyennes, Arapahoes, and Kiowa-Apaches on the other. The savage skirmishes with the southwestern Indians before the Civil War provided many army officers with a kind of training which was indispensable to them in that later, prolonged conflict. When hostilities ceased, men like Sherman, Sheridan, Dodge, Custer, and Grierson again resumed the harsh field of guerrilla warfare against their Indian foes, tough, hard, lusty, fighters, among whom the peace pipe had ceased to have more than a ceremonial significance. With the inauguration of the so-called Quaker Peace Policy during President Grant’s first administration, the hands of the army were tied. The Fort Sill reservation became a place of refuge for the marauding hands which went forth unmolested to train in Texas, Oklahoma, and Mexico. The toll in human life reached such proportions that the government finally turned the southwestern Indians over to the army for discipline, and a permanent settlement of the bands was achieved by 1875. From extensive research, conversations with both Indian and white eye witnesses, and his familiarity with Indian life and army affairs, Captain Nye has written an unforgettable account of these stirring time. The delineation of character and the reconstruction of colorful scenes, so often absent in historical writing, are to be found here in abundance. His Indians are made to live again: his scenes of post life could have been written only by an army man.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806171189

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9780806171180

China in My Life: A Historian's Own History

A Historian's Own History

By: C.Martin Wilbur

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China in My Life: A Historian's Own History

A Historian's Own History

By: C.Martin Wilbur

An autobiography of a scholar-teacher who devoted his career to the study of Chinese history and the promotion of Asian studies in America.

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371

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Routledge

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1315480719

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9781315480718

Stress and Old Age

By: Wilbur Watson

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Stress and Old Age

By: Wilbur Watson

This study provides new insight, and helps to fill the informational void created by the lack of research on relocation effects upon the minority elderly, by focusing on signs of post-relocation mortality, psychosocial distress, and coping behavior in two groups of inner-city elderly black people.

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195

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Routledge

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1351318861

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9781351318860

Plains Indian Raiders

The Final Phases of Warfare from the Arkansas to the Red River

By: Wilbur Sturtevant Nye

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Plains Indian Raiders

The Final Phases of Warfare from the Arkansas to the Red River

By: Wilbur Sturtevant Nye

Photographs show the Indians as they lived and dressed one hundred years ago. Text describes life on the Plains at the time of the portraits, highlighting raids, retaliatory massacres, and treaties.

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444

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806111755

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9780806111759

The Transformative City

Charlotte’s Takeoffs and Landings

By: Wilbur C. Rich

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The Transformative City

Charlotte’s Takeoffs and Landings

By: Wilbur C. Rich

Sunbelt cities like Atlanta, Charlotte, and Miami, with their international airports, have a transportation advantage that overwhelms global competition from other southern cities. Why? The short answer to this question seems to be intuitive, but the long answer lies at the intersection of built infrastructure policies, civic boosterism, and the changing nature of American cities. Simply put, Charlotte leaders invested in the future and took advantage of its opportunities. In the twentieth century Charlotte, North Carolina, underwent several generational changes in leadership and saw the emergence of a pro-growth coalition active in matters of the city’s ambience, race relations, business decisions, and use of state and federal government grants-in-aid. In The Transformative City, Wilbur C. Rich examines the complex interrelationships of these factors to illustrate the uniqueness of North Carolina’s most populous city and explores the ways in which the development and success of Charlotte Douglas International Airport has in turn led to development in the city itself, including the growth of both the financial industries and political sectors. Rich also examines the role the federal government had in airport development, banking, and race relation reforms. The Transformative City traces the economic transformation of Charlotte as a city and its airport as an agent of change.

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306

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University of Georgia Press

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0820356743

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9780820356747

Bad Medicine & Good

Tales of the Kiowas

By: Wilbur Sturtevant Nye

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Bad Medicine & Good

Tales of the Kiowas

By: Wilbur Sturtevant Nye

One of the great tribes of the Southwest Plains, the Kiowas were militantly defiant toward white intruders in their territory and killed more during seventy-five years of raiding than any other tribe. Now settled in southwestern Oklahoma, they are today one of the most progressive Indian groups in the area. In Bad Medicine and Good, Wilbur Sturtevant Nye collects forty-four stories covering Kiowa history from the 1700s through the 1940s, all gleaned from interviews with Kiowas (who actually took part in the events or recalled them from the accounts of their elders), and from the notes of Captain Hugh L Scott at Fort Sill. They cover such topics as the organization and conduct of a raiding party, the brave deeds of war chiefs, the treatment of white captives, the Grandmother gods, the Kiowa sun dance, and the problems of adjusting to white society.

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326

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806129654

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9780806129655

Book's by Wilbur Lawton

Carbine and Lance

Carbine and Lance

China in My Life: A Historian's Own History

China in My Life: A Historian's Own History

Stress and Old Age

Stress and Old Age

Plains Indian Raiders

Plains Indian Raiders

The Transformative City

The Transformative City

Bad Medicine & Good

Bad Medicine & Good

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