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The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
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88/100Author:
Megan Kate Nelson
Publisher:
Scribner
Date:
February 11, 2020
Megan Kate Nelson reveals the history of the Civil War in the American West. Exploring the connections among the Civil War, the Indian Wars, and western expansion, Nelson reframes the era as one of national conflictâinvolving not just the North and South, but also the West.
What The Reviewers Say
Nelson adroitly weaves the lives and experiences of nine people, including a Union army wife, a Navajo woman, an Apache chief, a rancher, and a young lawyer, to show how their lives were affected by the War.
... brisk and well-sourced.
Nelson’s cast of characters reads like a John Ford film cast.
