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Fort Phil Kearny: An American Saga

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Availability:In StockContributor:Dee Brown, Shannon D. Smith (Introduction by)Publish date:2022-04-01Pages:276
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803234581ISBN-10:803234589UPC:9780803234581Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Military, United States, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:United States, 19th Century, AmericanSize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.62 inchesWeight:0.69Product ID:SCEZ2E116T
The U.S. Army built Fort Phil Kearny in the foothills of Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains in 1866 to protect travelers on the Bozeman Trail headed to Montana's gold fields. The need for this protection arose because the Bozeman Trail cut through the heart of the last bountiful hunting grounds of the Lakotas, Northern Cheyennes, and Northern Arapahos. The incursion by gold seekers led to direct competition with the allied tribes for food and supplies, and a series of violent encounters culminated in the Fetterman Fight on December 21, 1866, in which the army suffered its worst defeat on the northern plains until Custer's defeat at the Little Bighorn ten years later. The battle became a cause célèbre and was the subject of a congressional investigation.

Based on army records and firsthand reports, Dee Brown's Fort Phil Kearny: An American Saga was the first detailed account of the battle and the loss of Lieutenant Fetterman's eighty men. Shannon D. Smith provides an introduction to this new edition.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803234581ISBN-10:803234589UPC:9780803234581Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Military, United States, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:United States, 19th Century, AmericanSize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.62 inchesWeight:0.69Product ID:SCEZ2E116T
Dee Brown (1908-2002) was the author of several novels in addition to his nonfiction books, which include Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West (Bison Books, 1981), and The Galvanized Yankees (Bison Books, 1986). Shannon D. Smith is the former executive director for the Wyoming Humanities Council and taught at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for seven years. She is the author of Give Me Eighty Men: Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight (Nebraska, 2008).

Publisher: Bison Books

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