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Authors: Larry McMurtry

Oh What a Slaughter (23 page)

Spotted Tail,
127
,
129
,
130
,
131

Staked Plains,
131

Standing Rock Reservation,
130
,
143–47

Stand Watie,
98

Sutter's Fort, Calif.,
50

Sword, George,
154

Sword, Jennie,
154

Tecumseh,
47
,
136

Trail of Tears,
60
,
98
,
141

tribalism,
58

Turks, Armenians massacred by,
2

Utah War,
69

Utes,
5

Utley, Robert,
142

Victorio,
58
,
119
,
127

Vietnam War,
34

Vina, Calif.,
4

Voices of Wounded Knee
(Coleman),
155
,
163

Walker, Joseph,
50

Warren Wagon Train Raid,
9

Washington, D.C., sniper attacks,
12

Washita attack (1868),
106
,
111

Weldon, Catherine,
142

West:

American ignorance about history of,
37–45

in books and movies,
40–41
,
48

West, Jessamyn,
16
,
17

West, main icons of,
41
,
44
,
129

White Antelope,
55
,
111

White Mountain Reservation,
120

Whiteside, Samuel,
149

White Wolf,
55

Whitman, Royal E.,
119–20
,
121
,
122
,
125

Wichitas,
135
,
157

Willie Boy,
48
,
49

Wilson, Jack (Wovoka),
134
,
136
,
138–40
,
157

Wilson, James,
55–56
,
136

Wintus,
47
,
48
,
53–54
,
60

Wise, William,
65

World War I,
5

World War II,
34

Wounded Knee, S. Dak.,
159–60

Wounded Knee Massacre (1890),
3
,
5
,
135–56

aftermath of,
152–56

Black Coyote and,
150
,
151–52
,
155
,
160

casualties in,
26
,
30
,
35
,
151

as final act in Indian dispossession,
158–60

Ghost Dance movement and,
30
,
131
,
134
,
135–37
,
151

Indian decline between Camp Grant Massacre and,
129–34

machine gun used at,
151

marker at site of,
157

other massacres compared with,
152

reliability of eyewitness accounts of,
27–28

as revenge for Little Bighorn,
155

survivors of,
33
,
152
,
154

as total wipeout,
15

Wovoka (Jack Wilson),
134
,
136
,
157

messiah letters of,
138–40

Yanas,
47
,
48
,
54
,
60

Yellow Bird,
151
,
154

Yellow Hair (Hay-o-wei),
132

Yellow Woman,
91

Young, Brigham,
27

death of,
87

deposition of,
70
,
80
,
86

diary of,
69

on disloyal church members,
85

dispatch letter of,
70–71

Lee and,
72
,
79–80

Mountain Meadows Massacre and,
26–27
,
63
,
69–72
,
79–80
,
84
,
86
,
89

U.S. government and,
66–67
,
69
,
70
,
71

Young, Ewing,
60

Young Man Afraid of His Horses,
155
,
158

Zitkala-noni, Marguarite,
154

Zitkalazi, Herbert,
154

Zulus,
137

Photo Credits

The author gratefully acknowledges permission from the following sources to reproduce pictures in their control
.

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3

Nephi Johnson: Courtesy of the Church Archives. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

4

J. P. Dunn: Indiana Historical Society, collection P0411.

10

Satanta (top) and Satank (bottom): both Corbis.

11

Norfolk, Nebraska: Elkhorn Valley Museum and Research Center, Norfolk, Nebraska.

19

John Doyle Lee: Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved.

20

John Milton Chivington: Colorado Historical Society, Neg # F22;F24623.

22

Ulysses S. Grant: Culver Pictures.

23

Kit Carson: Culver Pictures.

25

John C. Frémont: Culver Pictures.

27

Brigham Young: Culver Pictures.

29

Chief Big Foot: Corbis.

32

William Fetterman: Fort Laramie National Historical Site Museum, Burt Collection.

38–39

“Custer's Last Fight”: Culver Pictures.

42

Reward for Billy the Kid (top): Hulton/Archive/Getty Images. Billy the Kid (bottom): Culver Pictures.

43

Wild Bill Hickok (top) and Buffalo Bill Cody (bottom): both Culver Pictures.

44

Sitting Bull: Corbis.

45

Geronimo (top): Culver Pictures. Geronimo driving a car in Oklahoma (bottom): Hulton/Archive/Getty Images.

49

Willie Boy: Archives of A. K. Smiley Public Library.

53

Ishi: Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropol ogy and the Regents of the University of California—catalog #15-5771.

54

Black Kettle: Colorado Historical Society, Neg # F4911.

55

Group Portrait with Black Kettle & Bull Bear: Colorado Historical Society, Neg # F3469.

57

Quanah Parker (top) and Red Cloud (bottom): both Corbis.

58

General Custer: Culver Pictures.

61

Josefa Carson: Taos Historic Museums.

64

Juanita Brooks: Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved.

67

Parley Pratt: Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved.

83

Kanosh: Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved.

92

William Bent: Colorado Historical Society, Neg # F2.

96

Little Crow: Hulton/Archive/Getty Images.

100

Bull Bear: Colorado Historical Society, Neg # F2772.

101

Silas Soule: Denver Public Library, Western History Collection. X-22202.

102

General William Tecumseh Sherman: Culver Pictures.

103

Jim Beckwourth: Culver Pictures.

118

Kiäsax: Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, Gift of the Enron Art Foundation, 1986, (JAM1986.49.395).

146

Red Tomahawk (top): Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Photo by Frank Bennett Fiske. X-31690. Bullhead (bottom): Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Photo by D. F. Barry, B-511.

154

Black Elk: Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Photo by Joseph G. Masters, X-33351.

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