02183cam a2200289 4500 605766064 TxAuBib 20140828120000.0 240212s1977||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 75-744 (OCoLC)773489545 TxAuBib Capps, Benjamin. The Great Chiefs : Time Life Books: The Old West / by the editors of Time-Life Books ; with text by Benjamin Capps. 3rd printing, rev. Alexandria, VA : Time-Life Books, 1977. 240 p : ill. (some col.), maps, ports ; 28 cm. Old West, The Includes index. Bibliography: p. 236-237. The Great Chiefs is one of twenty-seven volumes in the popular Time-Life book series The Old West. This book portrays the lives of Native American leaders and their varied responses to the white settlement of the American West. The book mainly focuses on Chief Little Mountain of the Kiowas, Cochise, Geronimo, Quanah Parker, Washakie, Chief Joseph, and Sitting Bull. Numerous other chiefs are portrayed as well. Other topics covered include the Battle of the Rosebud, the Battle of Little Bighorn, the Modoc War, the emergence of the ghost dance religion, and the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. Author Benjamin Capps skillfully describes how the more numerous, powerful, and cohesive whites overcame the grit and courage of Geronimo, Chief Joseph, and Sitting Bull. The development of the high powered Sharps rifle enabled white buffalo hunters to slaughter the Indians' food source; the buffalo herds, once numbering 30 million animals, would be reduced to fewer than 1,000 beasts by 1886. The fast-moving narrative and numerous contemporary photographs and paintings make The Great Chiefs an excellent depiction of American Indian leaders and their role in shaping the history of the Old West. 20140924. Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- Biography Biography. Indians of North America -- Wars -- West (U.S) West (U.S.) Time-Life Books. The Old West.