The Navajos in the Anglo-American Historical Imagination, 1807-1870
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William H. Lyon
Ethnohistory, vol. 43, no. 3, Summer, 1996, pp. 483-509
Description
Anglo-Americans had mixed and ambiguous attitudes towards the Navajo; while admiring their virtues they reluctantly resorted to a military solution as a response to Navajo raiding.