Hakutulokset: Sarja frontier military series
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Guarding the Overland Trails
The Civil War left the western trails vulnerable and dangerous. Emigrants still streamed westward and demanded protection. The mail still had to be delivered, the telegraph …
Before Custer
Hoping to complete its transcontinental route, the Northern Pacific Railroad set out in 1872 to survey the Yellowstone Valley. An emissary from the Lakota chief Sitting Bull had …
Regulars in the Redwoods
The clash between settlers and Indians during California's early statehood has been marred by myth and stereotype. This new work, based on original research, explores how …
Road to War
By 1870, only one group of American Indians in the 300,000 square miles of the Dakota and Montana Territories still held firm against being placed on reservations: a few thousand …
History May Be Searched in Vain
The only religious unit in American military history. The Mormon battalion was unique in federal service, having been recruited solely from one religious body and having a …
Hancock's War
When General Winfield Scott Hancock led a military expedition across Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska in 1867, his purpose was a show of force that would curtail Indian raiding …
Soldiering in the Shadow of Wounded Knee
In the aftermath of the December 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, U.S. Army troops braced for retaliation from Lakota Sioux Indians, who had just suffered the devastating loss of at …
Tom Custer
In this biography - the first to document the life of Tom Custer - Carl F. Day reveals the public and private life of a distinguished American soldier. Although his life has been …
Powder River Odyssey
The entry for September 8, 1865, is terse: "We marched and fought over 15 miles today." With these few words civilian military engineer Lyman G. Bennett characterized the …