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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Evoking the spirit and danger of the early American West, this is the story of the Battle of Beecher Island, pitting an outnumbered United States Army patrol against six hundred Native warriors, where heroism on both sides of the conflict captures the vital themes at play on the American frontier"--
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Series
Source Custeriana volume 6
Publisher
Old Army Press
Pub. Date
©1975
Language
English
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Author
Series
Plainsmen volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Donegan's friend Sam Marr is pinned down at the Wagon Box Fight near Fort Phil Kearny on August 1, 1867, while Seamus is embroiled in the Hayfield Fight near Fort C. F. Smith on the Bighorn, August 2, 1867.
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[1955]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the Battle of the Little Big Horn and the factors influencing it, including the unrest in the Plains tribes, Custer's animosity with other military leaders, the U.S. government's policies concerning Native Americans, and other related topics.
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Language
English
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"In 1876, Lakota chief Crazy Horse helped lead his people's resistance against the white man's invasion of the northern Great Plains. One of the leaders of the US military forces was Army Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. The men had long been enemies. At the height of the war, when tribalism had reached its peak, they crossed paths for the last time. In this action-packed double biography, S. D. Nelson draws fascinating parallels between Crazy Horse...
Publisher
Savas Beatie
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
Indian War, Veterans presents the first comprehensive collection of veteran reminiscences, the vast majority of which have never seen wide circulation. The depth and breadth of coverage is truly monumental, from fighting with Custer and the mutilation of the dead at Little Bighorn, to the Fetterman fight, the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873, battles at Powder River and Rosebud Creek, fighting Crazy Horse in the Wolf Mountains, Geronimo and the Apache...
Publisher
Stackpole Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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Description
Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865 -- 1890: The Wars for the Pacific Northwest is the second in a planned five-volume series that will tell the saga of the military struggle for the American West in the words of the soldiers, noncombatants, and Native Americans who shaped it. Patterned after the classic Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, the series will represent the most comprehensive work on the Indian Wars in the West yet published. Volume...
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English
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"William Tecumseh Sherman and Geronimo were keen strategists and bold soldiers, ruthless with their enemies. Over the course of the 1870s and 1880s these two war chiefs would confront each other in the final battle for the American West. When Sherman rose to commanding general of the Army, he was tasked with bringing Geronimo and his followers onto a reservation where they would live as farmers and ranchers. But Geronimo preferred to fight. The Last...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
The Real Custer takes a good hard look at the life and storied military career of George Armstrong Custer-from cutting his teeth at Bull Run in the Civil War, to his famous and untimely death at Little Bighorn in the Indian Wars.
Author James Robbins demonstrates that Custer, having graduated last in his class at West Point, went on to prove himself again and again as an extremely skilled cavalry leader. Robbins argues that Custer's undoing was his...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Tells the little-known story of this exploratory mission and reveals how it set the stage for the climactic Battle of the Little Bighorn two years later. What is the significance of this obscure foray into the Black Hills? The short answer, as the author explains, is that Custer found gold. This discovery in the context of the worst economic depression the country had yet experienced spurred a gold rush that brought hordes of white prospectors to...
15) Arrowhead
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Publisher
Paramount [Home Entertainment]
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
A Calvary scout working at Fort Clark becomes convinced that an Apache brave is planning an attack, despite the Indian's outward appearance of peacefulness.
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Language
English
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Description
On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both became leaders in their societies at very...
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