Wilbur Sturtevant Nye (1898–1970)
Auteur de Carbine and Lance: The Story of Old Fort Sill
A propos de l'auteur
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Œuvres de Wilbur Sturtevant Nye
Plains Indian Raiders: The Final Phases of Warfare from the Arkansas to the Red River (1968) 33 exemplaires
Farthest east, Wrightsville, Pa 1 exemplaire
Carbine & lance;: The story of old Fort Sill 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1898-10-12
- Date de décès
- 1970-06-02
- Lieu de sépulture
- United States Military Academy Post Cemetery West Point, New York, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Études
- United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, USA
- Organisations
- United States Army
- Prix et distinctions
- Legion of Merit
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 6
- Membres
- 149
- Popularité
- #139,413
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 12
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.… (plus d'informations)