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<p>Deftly retracing a pivotal chapter in one of America's most dramatic stories, Elliott West chronicles the struggles, triumphs, and defeats of both Indians and whites as they pursued their clashing dreams of greatness in the heart of the continent. <P> <b>The Contested Plains</b> recounts the rise of the Native American horse culture, white Americans' discovery and pursuit of gold in the Rocky Mountains, and the wrenching changes and bitter conflicts that ensued. After centuries of many peoples fashioning many cultures on the plains, the Cheyennes and other tribes found in the horse the power to create a heroic way of life that dominated one of the world's great grasslands. Then the discovery of gold challenged that way of life and led finally to the infamous massacre at Sand Creek and the Indian Wars of the late 1860s. <P> Illuminating both the ancient and more recent history of the plains and eastern Rocky Mountains, West weaves together a brilliant tapestry interlaced with environmental, social, and military history. He treats the "frontier" not as a morally loaded term -- either in the traditional celebratory sense or the more recent critical sense -- but as a powerfully unse

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Author

West, Elliott, 1945-

Publisher

Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780700634446

Category

history

Subjects

History, Western, Humanities

Rating

3.93 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13