{"title":"Andrew E. Masich","description":"Andrew E. Masich is the President of Library \u0026amp; Archives of Pittsburgh's Smithsonian-affiliated Senator John Heinz History Center and Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum.","products":[{"product_id":"halfbreed-the-remarkable-true-story-of-george-bent-caught-between-the-worlds-of-the-indian-and-the-white-man-paperback","title":"Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent--Caught Between the Worlds of the Indian and the White Man - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of the amazing and uncommon life of George Bent-a \"halfbreed\" born to a prominent white trader and his Indian wife-whose lifetime spanned one of the most exciting epochs in our nation's history. Raised as a Cheyenne but educated in white schools, George Bent fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War, became a Cheyenne warrior and survived the horrific 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, rode and killed for revenge with the ferocious Cheyenne Dog Soldiers, and later became a prominent interpreter and negotiator for whites and adviser to tribal leaders. He hobnobbed with frontier legends Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, and George Custer, and fought side-by-side with great Indian leaders. After a lifetime of adventures and misfortunes, accomplishments and failures, George Bent made a lasting contribution to the memory of his people by sharing with historians the story of the fighting Cheyennes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365888884959,"sku":"9780306814105","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/mTatPUR7U29780306814105.webp?v=1789073596"},{"product_id":"civil-war-in-the-southwest-borderlands-1861-1867-paperback","title":"Civil War in the Southwest Borderlands, 1861-1867 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Still the least-understood theater of the Civil War, the Southwest Borderlands saw not only Union and Confederate forces clashing but Indians, Hispanos, and Anglos struggling for survival, power, and dominance on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. While other scholars have examined individual battles, Andrew E. Masich is the first to analyze these conflicts as interconnected civil wars. Based on previously overlooked Indian Depredation Claim records and a wealth of other sources, this book is both a close-up history of the Civil War in the region and an examination of the war-making traditions of its diverse peoples. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Along the border, Masich argues, the Civil War played out as a collision between three warrior cultures. Indians, Hispanos, and Anglos brought their own weapons and tactics to the struggle, but they also shared many traditions. Before the war, the three groups engaged one another in cycles of raid and reprisal involving the taking of livestock and human captives, reflecting a peculiar mixture of conflict and interdependence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When U.S. regular troops were withdrawn in 1861 to fight in the East, the resulting power vacuum led to unprecedented violence in the West. Indians fought Indians, Hispanos battled Hispanos, and Anglos vied for control of the Southwest, while each group sought allies in conflicts related only indirectly to the secession crisis. When Union and Confederate forces invaded the Southwest, Anglo soldiers, Hispanos, and sedentary Indian tribes forged alliances that allowed them to collectively wage a relentless war on Apaches, Comanches, and Navajos. Mexico's civil war and European intervention served only to enlarge the conflict in the borderlands. When the fighting subsided, a new power hierarchy had emerged and relations between the region's inhabitants, and their nations, forever changed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Masich's perspective on borderlands history offers a single, cohesive framework for understanding this power shift while demonstrating the importance of transnational and multicultural views of the American Civil War and the Southwest Borderlands. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366215090399,"sku":"9780806160962","price":48.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/BpTfMnzLpM9780806160962.webp?v=1789088035"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/andrew-e-masich.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}