Author: Margaret Irvin CarringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Ab-sa-ra-ka, Home of the Crows
Author: Margaret Irvin CarringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Absaraka (Ab-sa-ra-ka), Home of the Crows
Author: Margaret Irvin CarringtonPublisher: Chicago : Lakeside Press ; R.R. Donnelley
ISBN:
Category : Crow Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Ab-sa-ra-ka, Home of the Crows: being the experience of an officer's wife on the Plains, and marking the vicissitudes of peril and pleasure during the occupation of the new route to Virginia City, Montana, 1866-7, and the Indian hostility thereto, etc. [The dedication signed: M. J. C., i.e. Margaret Irvin Carrington.]
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Author: M. J. C.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Absaraka, Home of the Crows
Author: Margaret Irvin CarringtonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803263154
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
On July 17, 1866, two soldiers and six wagoners were killed by Sioux Indians. In the next two weeks, fourteen more men died in Sioux attacks. The attacks continued through the summer and fall. On December 21, disaster struck. Recklessly pursuing Indians across a wooded ridge, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel William Fetterman and his company fell into an ambush. It was the worst military blunder of the Indian Wars before the Battle of the Little Big Horn ten years later. Margaret Irvin Carrington, like many officers’ wives, kept a journal of her stay in the outposts of the West. She recorded her impressions of the scenery and the inhabitants of Absaraka, in present-day Wyoming, Montana, and the western Dakotas. As the wife of the commander of Fort Phil Kearny, Colonel Henry B. Carrington, she experienced the sequence of events and the heightening of tensions that led to that bloody December day. She could not have known that her journal would come to such a shocking climax, with her husband's career at stake.
Ab-sa-ra-ka, Land of Massacre
Author: Margaret Irvin CarringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crow Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
AB-SA-RA-KA
Author: Margaret Irvin CarringtonPublisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Called "a highly readable memoir" by a major western historian and cited by historians for over a century. When General Henry B. Carrington was sent west to build and staff Fort Phil Kearney, his wife Margaret and their sons were along. Under the command of Civil War hero, General William T. Sherman, Margaret followed Sherman's encouragement to wives to document their experiences of territory and Native American life. During their journey and their stay in Indian territory, Margaret writes of events big and small, including the Fetterman Massacre. Her husband was nearly brought up on charges but Sherman intervened and called for an investigation, which cleared Carrington. These accounts by officer's wives, while taking a point of view that today we understand as outdated, nevertheless contribute a valuable resource to the history of westward expansion and pioneer women of the United States. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample. This edition is annotated with updated information.
Absaraka (Ab-sa-ra-ka)
Author: Mrs. Margaret I. CarringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Dying Grass
Author: William T. VollmannPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0670015989
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 1378
Book Description
"Describes the 1877 war that pitted the legendary Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce against Civil War Veteran General Oliver Otis Howard."--Publisher.
Moon of Bitter Cold
Author: Frederick J. ChiaventonePublisher: Forge Books
ISBN: 1466833963
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
By the summer of 1866, America was a changed nation. The Civil War has ended, and the West was calling as a place where the fresh wounds of a nation divided could heal. Many set out to heed that call and explore the land that the terrible war had not touched. Amid the beauty of the region, they found its native inhabitants-and a bloody collision of two cultures. To the Lakota people, the white man-the wasichus-appeared first as a curiosity but soon turned into a plague. Frustrated and powerless, the proud Lakota Sioux war leader Red Cloud watched helplessly as the wasichus became as plentiful as the grass on the fields, draining the land of its resources, and introducing metal guns and knives, along with the water that makes men crazy. Red Cloud knows that if something is not done soon, there will be no land for his infant son to call his own. To some he was controversial, to others he was charismatic, but in an unprecedented act, Red Cloud unites the Sioux with the Cheyenne, Arapho and Crow, assembling over three-thousand warriors in what will go down in history as "Red Clouds War." It was an act that would never be equaled, as the Indians defeat the white man in battle after battle, finally bring the U.S. government to the bargaining table, where they sue for peace. Told with stunning humanity, Fred Chiaventone makes these historical figures, on both sides, living, real people. Combining vivid historical panorama with gritty and realistic drama. He has created a major narrative about a critical period and the pivotal figures on a frontier that won't know peace for decades. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Discovery of the Oregon Trail
Author: Robert StuartPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803292345
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Robert Stuart saw the American West a few years after Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and, like them, kept a journal of his epic experience. A partner in John Jacob Astor’s Pacific Fur Company, the Scotsman shipped for Oregon aboard the Tonquin in 1810 and helped found the ill-fated settlement of Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River. In 1812, facing disaster, Stuart and six others slipped away from Astoria and headed east. His journal, edited and annotated by Philip Ashton Rollins, describes their hazardous 3,700-mile journey to St. Louis. Crossing the Rockies in winter, they faced death by cold, starvation, and hostile Indians. But they made history by discovering what came to be called the Oregon Trail, including South Pass, over which thousands of emigrants would travel west in mid-century. Besides Stuart’s narrative, this volume contains important material about Astoria and the fate of the Tonquin, as well as the harrowing account of Wilson Price Hunt, who headed a party of overlanders traveling east to join the Astorians.
