THE LAST STAND
America's Indian Wars, 1862–1890By William Hartshorne Stone
Length6h 16m
About this audiobook
American Indian Wars history — Little Bighorn, Wounded Knee, the complete narrative history of America's conquest of the West, 1862-1890: Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Geronimo, Chief Joseph.
In the winter of 1889-1890, a Lakota elder stood on the frozen ground of the former Great Sioux Reservation and watched government surveyors drive iron stakes into the earth. The stakes were dividing what remained — 9 million acres, excised from 22 million the Treaty of Fort Laramie had guaranteed in 1868, opened to white homesteaders under the Sioux Act. Red Cloud, by then an old man, said flatly: "I was not consulted." The surveyors worked methodically across the plains. The lines went into the ground.
This is the history of how those lines got drawn. Historian William Hartshorne Stone traces the full arc from the Dakota War of 1862 — when 38 men were hanged simultaneously at Mankato, the largest mass execution in American history — through the Apache Wars and the Great Sioux War, to Wounded Knee on December 29, 1890, where four Hotchkiss guns fired 500 shells in under an hour into a crowd that included women and children. General Miles called it "a cruel and unnecessary massacre." The government awarded twenty Medals of Honor to the soldiers who participated.
Inside this Indian Wars history:
The Dakota War and the Mankato hangings — Andrew Myrick tells the starving Dakota they can eat grass; his body is found with his mouth stuffed with it; 38 men hanged December 26, 1862 — the largest mass execution in American history (Chapter 1)
Sand Creek and the logic of atrocity — Black Kettle surrenders under an American flag; Colonel Chivington's Colorado militia kills 200, mostly women and children; the men are never prosecuted (Chapter 2)
Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876 — how the Black Hills gold rush broke the Fort Laramie Treaty and drove the Lakota to their greatest military victory, and their final catastrophe (Chapters 9-11)
Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Geronimo — the last free men: their strategies, their surrenders, and what the government did with them after they stopped fighting (Chapters 12, 14)
The boarding schools — Captain Pratt's formula at Carlisle: "Kill the Indian in him, and save the man"; 186 children in Carlisle's cemetery; Jim Thorpe wins two Olympic gold medals and dies in a California trailer (Chapter 19)
The Dawes Act and ninety million acres lost — how Senator Dawes's sincere belief in private property transferred 65 percent of the 1887 Native land base to non-Native hands in forty-seven years (Chapter 18)
Wounded Knee and its aftermath — Lost Bird, two months old, found alive under her mother's body; the Medals of Honor awarded and never rescinded; L. Frank Baum's editorial calling for "total annihilation" five days later (Chapter 16)
The Indian Wars are not ancient history. The 22 million acres of the Great Sioux Reservation, the 90 million acres lost to allotment, the Carlisle children buried under names not their own — these are the foundations on which the contemporary West was built. Understanding them is not optional for anyone who wants to understand America.
For readers of Dee Brown's BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE and David Grann's KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Psychology
Length6 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
20Chapter 13: The Nez Perce War — Chief Joseph's Fighting Retreat
2Author’s Note
21Chapter 14: The Apache Wars — Geronimo's Long Resistance
3Prologue: A Continent Contested
22Chapter 15: The Ghost Dance — A People's Last Hope
4PART ONE: THE EASTERN PLAINS (1862–1868)
23Chapter 16: Wounded Knee — The Massacre That Ended an Era
5Chapter 1: The Dakota War — Minnesota's War of 1862
24PART FIVE: CONFINEMENT AND DESTRUCTION (1870–1900)
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6Chapter 2: Sand Creek — Colorado's Atrocity
25Chapter 17: The Reservation System — Confinement and Cultural Assault
7Chapter 3: Red Cloud's War — The Army's Greatest Defeat
26Chapter 18: The Dawes Act — Allotment and the Loss of the Land
8Chapter 4: The Medicine Lodge Treaties — Peace That Could Not Hold
27Chapter 19: The Boarding Schools — Assimilation by Force
9PART TWO: THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WARS (1868–1875)
28Chapter 20: The Collapse of the Buffalo — Ecological and Cultural Catastrophe
10Chapter 5: Custer on the Washita — The Winter Campaign of 1868
29PART SIX: LEGACIES (1890–PRESENT)
11Chapter 6: The Comanche Empire — Lords of the Southern Plains
30Chapter 21: Native Americans in the Twentieth Century — Survival and Resistance
12Chapter 7: The Red River War — The Destruction of Southern Plains Resistance
31Chapter 22: The Legal Legacy — Treaties, Courts, and Native Rights
13Chapter 8: Quanah Parker — From War Chief to Political Leader
32Chapter 23: How the Indian Wars Shaped America — Myth, Memory, and Monument
14PART THREE: THE GREAT SIOUX WAR (1873–1877)
33Chapter 24: Reckoning — What the Indian Wars Mean Today
15Chapter 9: The Black Hills — Gold and the Breaking of the Treaty
34Epilogue: The Long Aftermath
16Chapter 10: Little Bighorn — June 25, 1876
35Acknowledgments
17Chapter 11: After Little Bighorn — The Destruction of Sioux Resistance
36Selected Bibliography
18Chapter 12: Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse — The Last Free Men
37About the Author
19PART FOUR: THE WESTERN WARS (1877–1886)
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