War of a thousand deserts : Indian raids and the U.S.-Mexican War / Brian DeLay.

"Exploring Mexican, American, and Indian sources ranging from diplomatic correspondence and congressional debates to captivity narratives and plains Indians' pictorial calendars, War of a Thousand Deserts recovers the surprising and previously unrecognized ways in which economic, cultural, and polit...

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Main Author: DeLay, Brian, 1971-
Language:English
Published: New Haven : [Dallas, Tex.] : Yale University Press ; Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, [2008], ©2008.
Series:Lamar series in western history.
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Physical Description:xxi, 473 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • A note on names
  • Introduction : A little door
  • Prologue : Easy stories
  • Pt. 1. NEIGHBORS. Danger and community
  • Buffalo-hide quiver
  • Plunder and partners
  • The politics of vengeance
  • Pt. 2. NATIONS. Indians don't unmake presidents
  • Barbarians and dearer enemies
  • An eminently national war?
  • How to make a desert smile
  • Pt. 3. CONVERGENCE. A trophy of a new kind in war
  • Polk's blessing
  • Epilogue : Articel 11
  • Appendix : Data on Comanche-Mexican violence, 1831-48
  • Introduction to the data
  • Table and figures
  • Data.