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The story of the last deaths in the American Indian wars and their far-reaching ramificationsThe massacre of at least 150 Indians by the U.S. Army along Wounded Knee Creek in the Lakota reservation on December 29, 1890 generally is considered the closing salvo in America's Indian Wars. But as Roger L. Di Silvestro reveals in startling detail, the fight was hardly over. Two tragic events in the weeks immediately following would reignite the conflict and forever color its legacy."In the Shadow of Wounded Knee" is the first book to chronicle the senseless killings that riveted the country in 1891: the assassination of Lieutenant Edward Casey by the young Brul Lakota warrior Plenty Horses, and the ambush of Few Tails and two other Indians by rancher Pete Culbertsons and his brothers. According to frontier justice of the day, Plenty Horses would have been summarily hanged and the Culbertsons would never have been tried. Yet in the aftermath of Wounded Knee--a slaughter that had horrified politicians, soldiers, and citizens alike--the trial of Plenty Horses made headlines nationwide as a cause c l bre. Soon prosecutors faced a quandary: if Plenty Horses were convicted, then the Army itse

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Author

Silvestro, Roger L Di

Publisher

Walker Books Ltd;Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Walker & Co

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802718389

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, American Studies, Humanities