The Wagon Box Fight
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Author | : Jerry Keenan |
Publisher | : Hachette+ORM |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2007-10-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0306817101 |
One of the most dramatic battles of the Indian Wars is described in a revised edition with new material including official army reports and recent archaeological evidence.
Author | : Jerry Keenan |
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Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Fort Phil Kearny (Wyo.) |
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Author | : George Bird Grinnell |
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Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Red Cloud's War, 1866-1867 |
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Author | : John Dishon McDermott |
Publisher | : Arthur H. Clark Company |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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On a cold December day in 1866, Captain William J. Fetterman disobeyed orders and spurred his men across Lodge Trail Ridge in pursuit of a group of retreating Lakota Sioux, Arapahos, and Cheyennes. He saw a perfect opportunity to punish the tribes for harassing travelers on the Bozeman Trail and attacking wood trains sent out from nearby Fort Phil Kearny. In a sudden turn of events, his command was, within moments, annihilated. John D. McDermott's masterful retelling of the Fetterman Disaster is just one episode of Red Cloud's War, the most comprehensive history of the Bozeman Trail yet written. In vivid detail, McDermott recounts how the discovery of gold in Montana in 1863 led to the opening of the 250-mile route from Fort Laramie to the goldfields near Virginia City, and the fortification of this route with three military posts. The road crossed the Powder River Basin, the last, best hunting grounds of the Northern Plains tribes. Oglala chief Red Cloud and his allies mounted a campaign of armed resistance against the army and Montana-bound settlers. Among a host of small but bloody clashes were such major battles as the Fetterman Disaster, the Wagon Box Fight, and the Hayfield Fight, all of them famous in the annals of the Indian Wars. McDermott's spellbinding narrative offers a cautionary tale of hubris and mis-calculation. The United States Army suffered one setback after another; what reputation for effectiveness it had gained during the Civil War dissipated in the skirmishing in faraway Big Horn country. In a thoughtful conclusion, McDermott reflects on the tribes' victories and the consequences of the Treaty of 1868. By successfully defending their hunting grounds, the Northern Plains tribes delayed an ultimate reckoning that would come a decade later on the Little Bighorn, on the Red Forks of the Powder River, at Slim Buttes, at Wolf Mountain, and in a dozen other places where warrior and trooper met in the final clashes on the western plains. The leather-bound collector's edition is limited to fifty-five numbered and signed copies in a handsome slipcase, of which fifty are offered for sale.
Author | : Cyrus Townsend Brady |
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Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Dakota Indians |
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Author | : John Langellier |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 2018-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472819721 |
Intended to replace the proliferation of different small arms fielded by US forces during the American Civil War, the “Trapdoor Springfield” was designed in 1865–66 by Erskine S. Allin. Using metallic cartridges, it could be loaded in a single action, increasing the number of shots per minute as much as fivefold. The new weapon quickly proved its worth in two separate incidents in August 1867: small groups of US soldiers and civilians armed with the trapdoor repulsed numerically superior Native American contingents. A simple and cost-effective weapon, it was used, along with its variants in every US conflict in the three decades after the Civil War, especially on the American frontier. Drawing upon first-hand accounts from US soldiers, their Native American opponents, and users such as buffalo hunters, this is the story of the “Trapdoor Springfield”, one of the defining weapons of the Indian Wars.
Author | : John H. Monnett |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780826345035 |
Monnett takes a closer look at the struggle between the mining interests of the United States and the Lakota and Cheyenne nations in 1866 that climaxed with the Fetterman Massacre.
Author | : John G. Neihardt |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 776 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Criticism |
ISBN | : 1496207386 |
"A Cycle of the West rewards its readers with a sweeping saga of the American West and John G. Neihardt's exhilarating vision of frontier history"--
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Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 1924 |
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Author | : John Gneisenau Neihardt |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 878 |
Release | : 2018-08-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 149620736X |
A Cycle of the West rewards its readers with a sweeping saga of the American West and John G. Neihardt's exhilarating vision of frontier history. It is infused with wonder, nostalgia, and a keen appreciation of epic history. Unquestionably the masterpiece of the poet who has been called the "American Homer," A Cycle of the West celebrates the land and legends of the Old West in five narrative poems: The Song of Three Friends (1919), The Song of Hugh Glass (1915), The Song of Jed Smith (1941), The Song of the Indian Wars (1925), and The Song of the Messiah (1935). This unforgettable epic of discovery, conquest, courage, and tragedy speaks movingly and resoundingly of a unique American experience. The new introduction by former Texas poet laureate Alan Birkelbach and annotations by Joe Green present fresh views of Neihardt's iconic work.