Description: Discusses Indian tribes and leaders, explorers, missionaries, traders, settlers, soldiers, battles, treaties, and other topics in the frontier history of the Great Plains from the arrival of the first seafarers to the end of the Indian wars.
Review Quotes:
"...a concise reference...." --New Mexico Historical Review
"...contains more than 750 entries, providing rich detail on the historical events and figures relating to the Indian-White relationships on the Great Plains...." --AB Bookman's Weekly "Heard is well qualified to compile these entries...The author's treatment of mass killers of American Indians such as John Jarboe is forthright and honest. He is also historically accurate in his treatment of atrocities, be it by Indians in the Massacre of the Lava Beds or by whites in the Mountains Meadowo Massacre or the Round Valley Massacres." --Montana The Magazine of Western History "...a handy reference tool for students of the American West. Heard's dictionary provides a unique collection of material." --South Dakota History