Eyewitnesses To The Indian Wars - Volume 1: Volume One: The Struggle for Apacheria

Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4. 683 pages indexed. Previous owners address label inside front cover. Small tear on dust jacket upper front corner in addition to minor wear and tear. Book is bound tightly. Patterned after the classic Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, this series of five volumes will the most comprehensive work on the military aspects of the Indian Wars in the West. The author will gather a wide variety of first-person accounts that are not generally available elsewhere, relying primarily on unpublished manuscript accounts and contemporaneous newspaper articles. Each article covering an event or battle will be placed within its context, with background information on the author of the article, a historical introduction evaluating the article's accuracy and significance, and a "for further reading" list of sources.