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Winning the West: Indian Wars after 1840
- Indians of the Southwest
- Navajo resistance
- A line in the sand
- The Apache
- Cochise
- Blood on the Plains
- Geronimo
- The Sand Creek Massacre
- The war escalates
- Black Hills battles
- The Battle of Little Bighorn
- The end
- Conclusion
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At the turn of the eighteenth century the territory east of the Mississippi River seemed like enough land for the growing U.S. population for...
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