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When the Wolf Came: The Civil War and the Indian Territory (The Civil War in the West)

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Winner of the 2014 Oklahoma Book Award for nonfiction

Winner of the 2014 Pate Award from the Fort Worth Civil War Round Table.



When the peoples of the Indian Territory found themselves in the middle of the American Civil War, squeezed between Union Kansas and Confederate Texas and Arkansas, they had no option to escape a conflict not in their choosing–and no alternative but to suffer its consequences. When the Wolf Came explores how the war within the Indian Territory involved almost each and every resident, killed many civilians in addition to soldiers, left the country stripped and devastated, and cost Indian nations millions of acres of land. The use of a solid foundation of both published and unpublished sources, including the records of Cherokee, Choctaw, and Creek nations, Mary Jane Warde details how the coming of the war set off a wave of migration into neighboring Kansas, the Red River Valley, and Texas. She describes how Indian Territory troops in Unionist regiments or as Confederate allies battled enemies–some from their very own nations–within the territory and in neighboring Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas. And she shows how post-war land cessions forced by the federal government on Indian nations formerly allied with the Confederacy allowed the removal of still more tribes to the Indian Territory, leaving millions of acres open for homesteads, railroads, and development in a minimum of ten states. Enhanced by maps and photographs from the Oklahoma Historical Society’s photographic archives, When the Wolf Came will likely be welcomed by both general readers and scholars interested within the signal public events that marked that tumultuous era and the consequences for the territory’s tens of thousands of native peoples.

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