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Book SynopsisThe Plains Indian Wars were always front-page news in frontier newspapers, and it was to such local newspapers that the public invariably turned for information about the fighting.
Bound to Have Blood takes readers back to the late nineteenth century to show how newspaper reporting influenced attitudes about the conflict between the United States and Native Americans.
Trade Review“[
Bound to Have Blood] offers a lot of colorful history and some great old photographs.”—
Omaha World-Herald"Reilly fleshes out the broad strokes of interaction between natives and settlers in the middle of North America from the 1860s to the 1890s by drawing on the articles and opinions in the local newspapers where the wars were being fought."—
Reference & Research Book News"In
Bound to Have Blood, Reilly provides a good overview of the press coverage of the Plains Indian Wars and thus helps readers understand how this coverage influenced American reactions to the Indians. . . . Reilly's study provides an excellent account of how the local newspapers covered these events and shows that reactions were not always the same because of differences in local opinions and circumstances."—Carol Sue Humphrey,
Historian"
Bound to Have Blood should find a place in classrooms where instructors wish to offer their students access to the vitriolic rhetoric of Indian hating that appears in nineteenth- century frontier newspapers and the political jockeying that lay behind it."—Phillip H. Round,
SAIL"This is a welcome addition to Indian studies that documents an important feature of the history of the American West."—James W. Parins,
American Indian Culture and Research JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Frontier Newspapers1. Great Sioux Uprising: August-December 18622. Sand Creek Massacre: November 18643. Fort Laramie Treaty: 18684. The Little Big Horn Campaign: January-July 18765. The Flight of the Nez Perce: March-October 18776. The Cheyenne Outbreak: September 1878-January 18797. The Standing Bear Trial: April-May 18798. Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee: 1890-18919. Closing the CircleNotes BibliographyIndex
