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Title Thundersticks : firearms and the violent transformation of Native America / David J. Silverman.
Author Silverman, David J., 1971- author.
Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.
©2016
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  970.00497 SIL    Check Shelves
Description xii, 371 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-351) and index.
Contents Introduction: What Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull knew -- Launching the Indian arms race -- A vicious commerce : slaves and alliance for guns -- Recoil : the fatal quest for arms during King Philip's War -- Indian gunmen against the British Empire -- Otters for arms -- The Seminoles resist removal -- Indian gunrunners in a wild West -- The rise and fall of the centaur gunmen -- Epilogue: AIM raises the rifle.
Subject Indians of North America -- Warfare -- History.
Firearms -- North America -- History.
Indians, Treatment of -- North America.
ISBN 9780674737471 (hardcover : alk. paper) : $29.95
0674737474 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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