War Cries on Horseback: The Story of the Indian Wars of the Great Plains. by Longstreet, Stephen - 1970.

Garden City, New York:: Doubleday & Company, 1970.. Book Club Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: dark rust binding; a Very Good+ book, with a Good+ dust jacket.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Reading list. Map endpapers. Description: Includes two sections of black and white photo plates. Presents detailed accounts of such 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 others. This traces the half century of warfare which made up the Indian's last desperate resistance to the encroachment on their homelands. Written from family papers, journals and diaries, and many other primary sources, it contains graphic descriptions of the harsh life of the miners, fur traders and sod busters living in distant outposts; the boredom of day-to-day life in the Cavalry, as well as blood curdling stories of raids, kidnappings, scalpings and burnings on both sides. Rear gutter code ''O11'' indicates a printing date of March, 1973.