Front cover image for Personal recollections and observations of General Nelson A. Miles embracing a brief view of the Civil War, or, From New England to the Golden Gate : and the story of his Indian campaigns, with comments on the exploration, development and progress of our great western empire

Personal recollections and observations of General Nelson A. Miles embracing a brief view of the Civil War, or, From New England to the Golden Gate : and the story of his Indian campaigns, with comments on the exploration, development and progress of our great western empire

Print Book, English, 1897, ©1896
Werner, Chicago, 1897, ©1896
History
vii, 591 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
17724877
In New England fifty years ago
The great Civil War
Last scenes of the great war
Our acquired territory
Prehistoric Americans
Indian character
Indian law, religion and eloquence
Game in the great West
The Indian during the Civil War
Some historic campaigns
Campaigns in Texas
Kiowas and Comanches
Indian difficulties in New Mexico
The Sioux war
The Custer massacre
After the Custer Massacre
A winter campaign
Campaign against Cheyennes and Ogalallas
The Lame Deer expedition
The Nez Percé campaign
The siege and surrender
A visit to Custer's last battlefield
The Bannock campaign
Sitting Bull
Results of six years of Indian campaigning
The Indian problem
Journey westward
Salt Lake City and the Mormons
Across Utah and Nevada
A chapter out of early history
Department of the Columbia
Chief Moses and his tribe
Our Alaskan possessions
From Indian territory to Arizona
The Apache and the soldier
A campaign against Apaches
The Arizona campaign I
The Arizona campaign II
Incidents of the Apache campaign
End of the Apache war
How the regulars were trained
The arid region and irrigation
Transportation
California