James P Boyd – författare

A concise, compact dictionary with thousands of Biblical references. It lists and identifies all proper names, gives data on places and events of the scriptures, pronounciations, definitions and textual references.

Victor Hugo says, that "e;Africa will be the continent of the twentieth century."e; Already the nations are struggling to possess it. Stanley's explorations proved the majesty and efficacy of equipment and force amid these dusky peoples and through the awful mazes of the unknown. Empires watched with eager eye the progress of his last daring journey. Science and civilization stood ready to welcome its results. He comes to light again, having escaped ambush, flood, the wild beast and disease, and his revelations set the world aglow. He is greeted by kings, hailed by savants, and looked to by the colonizing nations as the future pioneer of political power and commercial enterprise in their behalf, as he has been the most redoubtable leader of adventure in the past. This miraculous journey of the dashing and intrepid explorer, completed against obstacles which all believed to be insurmountable, safely ended after opinion had given him up as dead, together with its bearings on the fortunes of those nations who are casting anew the chart of Africa, and upon the native peoples who are to be revolutionized or exterminated by the last grand surges of progress.

In 1875, the Great Sioux War of 1876–77, the last serious Sioux war erupted, when the Dakota gold rush penetrated the Black Hills. The U.S. Government decided to stop evicting trespassers from the Black Hills, and offered to buy the land from the Sioux. When they refused, the Government decided instead to take the land, and gave the Lakota until January 31, 1876 to return to reservations. They were led in the field by Crazy Horse and inspired by Sitting Bull''s earlier vision of victory.Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance to United States government policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him, at a time when authorities feared that he would join the Ghost Dance movement.Contents:War With the PueblosThe Shoshone UprisingWars With the California TribesA Yuma MassacreThe Rogue River WarsWar With the CheyennesNavajo HostilitiesThe Affair of Mountain MeadowThe Spokane WarsThe Fierce Apaches and ArrapahoesThe Piegan PunishmentModoc and Lava BedCuster and the SiouxThe Nez Perces WarsThe Utes of White RiverMessiah Craze and Ghost DanceMastering the SituationSentiment Respecting the Uprising