Narrates the late nineteenth-century struggles of the Native Americans to survive against the increasing flow of white settlers moving west and taking over the land.

Here are the true stories of the West's most terrible massacres-Sacramento River, Mountain Meadows, Sand Creek, Marias River, Camp Grant, and Wounded Knee, among others. These massacres involved Americans killing Indians, but also Indians killing Americans and, in the case of the currently hugely controversial Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857, Mormons slaughtering a party of American settlers, including women and children. McMurtry's evocative descriptions...

"Three men--a scout, a soldier, and a reporter--will have their lives changed forever after they join General Crook's expeditionary force in the 1876 campaign against the Cheyenne and Sioux"--

Acclaimed historians Robert M. Utley and Wilcomb E. Washburn examine both small battles and major wars-from the Native rebellion of 1492 to Crazy Horse and the Sioux War to the massacre at Wounded Knee.

Documented account of the systematic plunder of Native American Indians during the second half of the nineteenth century.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West—"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Review).
In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest...

"A collection of dark deeds from America's old West"--Provided by publisher.