The Kit Carson Campaign : The Last Great Navajo War by Clifford E. Trafzer 1st

Your browser does not support JavaScript.To view this page, enable JavaScript if it is disabled or upgrade your browser. Click Here. Double your traffic. Get Vendio Gallery - Now FREE!Feel free to contact sellerregarding additional information relating to condition, photos, description orpricing.Inthis book the author recounts the bloody events of Colonel Kit Carson'scampaign against the Navajos in the late 1860s and the Indian's doomed effortsto evade the famous scout. An even handed look at Kit Carson!Publisher:University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1982Used - Very Good. 276 pages, frontis,illustrations, review copy. Carson'scampaign against the Navajos in the 1860s, and their forced removal and longwalk to reservations.Trafzer presents in precise, authoritative style the Navajos'side of Carson'snotorious campaign against the tribe in the 1860s. To say the least, it was agrim affair --- years of ruthless destruction of the Navajo people and theirproperty --- and author Trafzer accordingly presents a detailed account, backup both by an enormous amount of archival research and by oral history providedto him by the Navajos. He argues that it was not Carson but rather GeneralJames H. Carleton, commander of the Military Department in New Mexico, who master-minded the campaign; Carson carried out the plan. A definitivestudy of an important period in western history.Clifford E. Trafzer is Professor and Chair inthe Department of American Indian Studies at San Diego State University. He is theauthor of several works on Indians and western American history.Illustrated with more than 65 black-and-whitephotographs.Included Bibliography and Index.(KIT CARSON, MOUNTAIN MAN, INDIAN WARS, NAVAJOS, JAMESCARLETON)(KIT CARSON, NAVAJO INDIANS, INDIAN WARS, FRONTIER MILITARY)(HISTORY AMERICA UNITED STATES MILITARY CIVIL WAR 1861 1865PERIOD 1850 1877 CARSON KIT 1809 1868 INDIAN NATIVE AMERICAN NAVAJO)Your browser does not support JavaScript.To view this page, enable JavaScript if it is disabled or upgrade your browser.