Thundersticks : firearms and the violent transformation of Native America
Record details
- ISBN: 0674737474
- ISBN: 9780674737471
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Physical Description:
xii, 371 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
print - Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.
- Copyright: ℗♭2016.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-351) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: What Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull knew -- Launching the Indian arms race -- A vicious commerce : slaves and alliance for guns -- Recoil : the fatal quest for arms during King Philip's War -- Indian gunmen against the British Empire -- Otters for arms -- The Seminoles resist removal -- Indian gunrunners in a wild West -- The rise and fall of the centaur gunmen -- Epilogue: AIM raises the rifle. |
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Subject: | Indians of North America Warfare History Firearms North America History Indians, Treatment of North America Firearms Indians of North America Warfare Indians, Treatment of North America |
Genre: | History. |
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La Conner Regional Library | 970 SILVER | 104603 | NON FICTION | Available | - |