Conquering the Southern Plains (Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890)

“Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars 1865-1890: Conquering the Southern Plains” is the third in a planned five-volume series that will tell the saga of the military struggle for the American West in the words of the soldiers non-combatants and Native Americans who shaped it. “Volume III: Conquering the Southern Plains” offers as complete a selection of outstanding original accounts pertaining to the struggle for the Southern Plains and Texas as may be gathered under one cover. It contains accounts from such notable military participants as George Armstrong Custer Nelson A. Miles Wesley Merritt and Frederick W. Benteen.