Research Catalog

Title

Northwestern fights and fighters, by Cyrus Townsend Brady, LL. D.; illustrated with original drawings, maps and photographs.

Author

Brady, Cyrus Townsend, 1861-1920

Publication

New York, The McClure Company, 1907.

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Details

Description

xxv, 373 p. front., illus., (maps) plates, ports.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

• His American fights and fighters series
• Brady, Cyrus Townsend, 1861-1920. American fights and fighters series

Subject

• 1866-1895
• Nez Percé Indians > Wars, 1877
• Modoc War, 1872-1873
• Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876
• Indians of North America > Wars > 1866-1895

Genre/Form

• Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) – United States – 1900-1910.
• Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) – United States – 1900-1910.
• Personal narratives
• Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. xxv.

Indexed In (note)

• Minsky, R. American trade bindings with Native American themes 1875-1933

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Part I. The Nez Percé War. The epic of the Nez Percés / Cyrus Townsend Brady, L.L. D. -- Chief Joseph's own story / Im-mut-too-yah-lat-lat (Chief Joseph), with an introduction by the Rt. Rev. W.H. Hare, D.D., Bishop of South Dakota -- General Howard's comment on Joseph's narrative / Major-General O.O. Howard, U.S.A. (Retired) -- The battle of White Bird Cañon / Major and Brevet-Colonel W.R. Parnell, U.S.A. (Retired) -- The battle of White Bird Cañon, continued / Brigidier-General David Perry, U.S.A. (Retired), with notes by Captain Farrow, Late U.S.A., and Dr. Brady -- The affair at Cottonwood / Brigidier-General David Perry, U.S.A. (Retired) -- The Salmon River Expedition / Major and Brevet-Colonel W.R. Parnell, U.S.A. (Retired) -- The battle of Clearwater / Major J.G. Trimble, U.S.A. (Retired) -- The assembling of the soldiers and the battle of Clearwater / Captain E.S. Farrow, late U.S.A., with letter by Major H.L. Bailey, U.S.A. -- The battle of the Big Hole / G.O. Shields (Coquina) -- The battle of Camas Meadows / H.J. Davis, Late Second Cavalry, U.S.A. -- The story of Bugler Brooks / Colonel J.W. Redington, Former U.S. scout and courier -- The Seventh Cavalry at Cañon Creek / Theodore W. Goldin, Late Trooper Seventh Cavalry -- Anecdotes of Chief Joseph / From the New York Sun --
• Part II. The Madoc War. In the Land of Burnt Out Fires / Cyrus Townsend Brady, L.L. D., with notes by Col. J.W. Redington and the Department of the Interior -- The first blow--Jackson's Expedition / Colonel James Jackson, U.S.A. (Retired) -- Boutelle and Scar-faced Charley / Major F.A. Boutelle, U.S.A. (Retired) -- The initial shot / Ivan D. Applegate -- The country they marched and fought over / Major J.G. Trimble, U.S.A. (Retired) -- The killing of the commissioners / Major J.G. Trimble, U.S.A. (Retired), with note by Major James Biddle, U.S.A. (Retired) -- First and second battles in the Lava-Beds / Brigidier-General David Perry, U.S.A. (Retired), with note by Major Trimble -- The disaster to Thomas' command / Major F.A. Boutelle, U.S.A. (Retired) -- Carrying a stretcher through the Lava-Beds / Major J.G. Trimble, U.S.A. (Retired) -- The last fight of the campaign / Brigadier-General H.C. Hasbrouck, U.S.A. (Retired) --
• Appendix. Letter from Lt.-Col. W.H.C. Bowen regarding Custer disaster -- Lt.-Col. Bowen's account of Custer's defeat on the Little Big Horn -- Letter from Lt.-Col. Theo. Ewert, Ill. Nat. Guard, Late 1st Sergeant H. Troop, Seventh Cavalry, regarding Custer's fight in the Yellowstone, with comment by Brig.-Gen. E.S. Godfrey, U.S.A. -- Memoranda upon the Wolf Mountain campaign by L.S. Kelly (Yellowstone Kelly).

LCCN

^^^07036235^

OCLC

• 2162238
• SCSB-11713900

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library