Scalps and Tomahawks
Author : Frederick Drimmer
Publisher : New York : Coward-McCann [1961]
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN :
Author : Frederick Drimmer
Publisher : New York : Coward-McCann [1961]
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 1858
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Mike Stelzer
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 2014-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781503155510
The boom of a flintlock musket, a cloud of acrid black powder, and the drumming of feet as they rush towards the fallen foe. A knife is unsheathed, and with a few quick movements, the enemy's bloody scalp is ripped free. Warfare in the Eastern Woodlands of America was one of raids, ambushes and sudden violent encounters. This book includes: -All rules needed to play. -Historical background detailing Native American tribes and their Europeans foes. -A map showing the locations of the major tribes. -Timeline covering major and minor wars from European arrival until the 2nd Seminole War. -Army lists for Native Americans, French & British. -Complete list of Traits to individualize troops. - Suggestions on how to set up games. -Detailed description of the period. Based on the Origins-award-winning Song of Drums and Shakos rules.
Author : Tracy C. Davis
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1551119005
This collection provides a representative set of theatrical performances popular on the nineteenth-century British stage. All are newly edited critical editions that account for variant sources reflecting the process of rehearsal, licensing, and production. Detailed introductions and extensive notes explain the texts’ relationship to repertoires, the circulating discourses of intelligibility that constantly recombine in performance. The plays address the topical concerns of slavery, imperial conquest, capitalism, interculturalism, uprisings at home and abroad, modernist aesthetic innovation, and the celebration of collective identities. Adaptations from novels, travelogues, and other plays are discussed along with the theatrical history that sustained these works on the stage.
Author : Dwight C. Mclemore
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,33 MB
Release : 2018-01-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781982099282
The low-tech, high-impact tomahawk has been carried in every American war, including Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. Here the author traces the origins of the tomahawk and uses his dynamic drawings to show how it can be utilized singly or with the long knife in both offensive and defensive encounters. Includes fighting scenarios, throwing lessons and applications of the war club.
Author : James G. Landis
Publisher : Faith Builders Publishing
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 32,3 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Delaware Indians
ISBN : 0977212335
Glikikan, a Delaware war chief, ... brings to light the hidden causes of the Delaware resistance popularly known as Pontiac's Rebellion.
Author : Mayne Reid
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN :
The story of the search for and rescue of a scalp hunter's yellow-haired daughter from blood-thirsty, Quetzalcoatl-worshiping "Navajoes" almost gets lost in delirious descriptions of a lush, fantastic American West in this proto-western masterpiece.
Author : Old Humphrey
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 39,95 MB
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3732685330
Reproduction of the original: History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians by Old Humphrey
Author : Max Carocci
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,71 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780714115429
For thousands of years, Plains Indians and their ancestors have occupied the vast region that stretches from the Mississippi river to the Rocky Mountains and from the Canadian plains to the Gulf of Mexico. Today, peoples such as the Blackfoot and Sioux still live in groups bound by language and shared rituals. From about 1800, one of the most important units beyond the extended family was the 'warrior society' - a social, political and ritual group that engaged in warfare and organised ceremonial life. The societies played a prominent role in battles, offering members the opportunity to gain honours through individual acts of bravery such stealing horses, capturing women, and taking scalps during war raids. These societies, however, have a rich ritual life that was marked by a strong sense of spirituality. In their ceremonies society members made use of objects such as pipes, rattles, and headdresses, as these were significant to their shared ideas of ritual and honour. Through a selection of unique objects from the British Museum's collection, this beautifully illustrated little book explores the world of the warriors of the North American Plains. Here are exceptional examples of feather headdresses, shields, moccasins, painted hides, scalps, pipes, tomahawks, and traditional and contemporary costumes. Many of these items may seem initially familiar from popular culture, but their deeper ritual significance is revealed by the author. A perennially popular subject, this book will appeal to young and old alike.
Author : Delores Bird Carpenter
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 17,63 MB
Release : 1995-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0870139010
Early Encounters contains a selection of nineteen essays from the papers of prominent New England historian, antiquarian, and genealogist Warren Sears Nickerson (1880-1966). This extensive study of his own family ties to the Mayflower, and his exhaustive investigation of the first contacts between Europeans and Native Americans, in what is today New England, made him an unquestioned authority in both fields. The research upon which the text of Early Encounters is based occurred between the 1920s and the 1950s. Each of Nickerson’s works included in this carefully edited volume is placed in its context by Delores Bird Carpenter; she provides the reader with a wealth of useful background information about each essay’s origin, as well as Nickerson’s reasons for undertaking the research. Material is arranged thematically: the arrival of the Mayflower; conflicts between Europeans and Native Americans; and other topics related to the history and legends of early European settlement on Cape Cod. Early Encounters is a thoughtfully researched, readable book that presents a rich and varied account of life in colonial New England.