Chiefs & Generals: Nine Men Who Shaped the American West

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Lakota Chief Red Cloud: formidable in war and peace / Robert W. Larson — Apache Chief Victorio: seeker of peace and master strategist / Glenda Riley — Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce: a western tragedy / Richard W. Etulain — O.O. Howard: the Christian general / Richard N. Ellis — Geronimo: the last renegade / L.G. Moses — George Crook: the humanitarian general / Darlis A. Miller — General George Armstrong Custer: the waging of total war in the American West / Shirley A. Leckie — Ranald Mackenzie: war on the Plains Indians / Durwood Ball — Nelson A. Miles: the soldier as westerner / Robert Wooster