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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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University of Oklahoma Press

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ISBN 10

0806129654

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9780806129655

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 to 1875, in a theater of action extending from Kansas to Mexico, the strife was almost uninterrupted. The U.S. Army, Kansas militia, Texas Rangers, and white pioneers and traders were arrayed against the fierce and heroic bands of the Kiowas, Comanches, Cheyennes, Arapahoes, and Kiowa-Apaches. The savage skirmishes with the southwestern Indians before the Civil War provided many army officers with a kind of training that proved indispensable to them in that later, prolonged conflict. When hostilities ceased, Sherman, Sheridan, Dodge, Custer, Grierson, and other commanders again resumed the harsh field of guerrilla warfare against their Indian foes—tough, hard fighters. 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 bands that went forth unmolested to raid 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 eyewitnesses, and his familiarity with Indian life and army affairs, Captain Nye has written an unforgettable account of these stirring times. 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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0806187182

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9780806187181

The Battle of Gettysburg

A Guided Tour

By: Edward James Stackpole,Wilbur Sturtevant Nye

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The Battle of Gettysburg

A Guided Tour

By: Edward James Stackpole,Wilbur Sturtevant Nye

This volume contains both a short but detailed history of the historic battle, as well as a "guided tour" of the site as it exists today.

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132

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Stackpole Books

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0811726762

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9780811726764

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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0806111755

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9780806111759

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Bad Medicine & Good

Bad Medicine & Good

Carbine and Lance

Carbine and Lance

The Battle of Gettysburg

The Battle of Gettysburg

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Plains Indian Raiders

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