Battlefield and Classroom: Four Decades with the American Indian, 1867-1904

by Richard Henry Pratt

Book Overview

General Richard Henry Pratt, best known as the founder and longtime superintendent of the influential Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, profoundly shaped Indian education and federal Indian policy at the turn of the twentieth century. Pratt's long and active military career included eight years of service as an army field officer on the western frontier. During that time he participated in some of the signal conflicts with Indians of the southern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806136030
• ISBN13: 9780806136035
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.1"