Research Catalog

Title

The deadliest Indian war in the West : the Snake conflict, 1864-1868 / Gregory Michno.

Author

Michno, Gregory, 1948-

Publication

Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Press, 2007.

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Details

Description

xviii, 380 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

The Snake War is one of the least known of the many clashes of culture that occurred in the American West during the 19th Century. Most Americans have heard of famous chiefs like Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Geronimo, Cochise, and Crazy Horse. Few have heard of Paulina, Weahwewa, Howluck, or Ocheho. To most people, Winnemucca is simply the name of a lonely stop on the Nevada Interstate. These were the men who led their people in a fight for survival in the Great Basin between the Rockies and the Sierras. The author gives readers the first comprehensive look at the natives, soldiers, and settlers who clashed on the high desert of Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Oregon, and Northern California in a struggle that, over a 4-year period, claimed more lives than any other Western Indian war.

Subjects

• Shoshoni Indians > Wars
• Paiute Indians > Wars
• Snake War, 1864-1868

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-366) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Organizing for war -- The Great Basin and its Indian tribes -- Antecedents of the 1864 war -- The opening shots -- "I am being systematically slaughtered" -- Drew's expedition -- Operations in Nevada and Idaho, 1864 -- Peach attempts -- Trouble spreads to Nevada -- Fighting in Nevada, 1865 -- The peace fails : Oregon, 1865 -- Summer and Fall campaigns, Oregon, 1865 -- "Those ... boys soon spoil without their regular fight" -- The Regulars arrive : Oregon 1866 -- Hide and Seek, Summer and Fall, 1866 -- Crook takes over -- More fighting in Nevada -- The death of Paulina -- "It was no easy task" -- Summer 1867 -- "I never wanted dynamite so bad" -- Last of the Warm Springs Scouts -- The Denoille Incident -- "As for grain, we had none" -- The fourth Spring -- "I did not come here to shake hands with him" -- The war winds down -- Conclusions -- Appendices.

ISBN

• 9780870044601 (pbk.)
• 0870044605 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007023865

OCLC

167489427

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library