Author: Margaret Irvin Carrington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Ab-sa-ra-ka, Home of the Crows
Author: Margaret Irvin Carrington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Absaraka, Home of the Crows
Author: Margaret Irvin Carrington
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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, 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.]
Author: M. J. C.
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Ab-sa-ra-ka, Land of Massacre
Author: Margaret Irvin Carrington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crow Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crow Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The Bozeman Trail
Author: Grace Raymond Hebard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
AB-SA-RA-KA
Author: Margaret Irvin Carrington
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Crossing Wyoming
Author: David Romtvedt
Publisher: White Pine Press
ISBN: 9781877727238
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
"Crossing Wyoming achieves a narrative scope and unity rare in any gathering of stories. A complex, moving book, [it] conveys the colorful, violent sweep of American history, the majesty and vulnerability of its wilderness, and the suffering and patient endurance of its citizens--natives and newcomers alike...it's difficult to imagine any reader coming away unshaken by [Romtvedt's] powerful, compassionate vision."--The Georgia Review
Publisher: White Pine Press
ISBN: 9781877727238
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
"Crossing Wyoming achieves a narrative scope and unity rare in any gathering of stories. A complex, moving book, [it] conveys the colorful, violent sweep of American history, the majesty and vulnerability of its wilderness, and the suffering and patient endurance of its citizens--natives and newcomers alike...it's difficult to imagine any reader coming away unshaken by [Romtvedt's] powerful, compassionate vision."--The Georgia Review
The Bozeman Trail: Preface
Author: Grace Raymond Hebard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
History of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway
Author: Keith L. Bryant
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803260665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
In 1859, Cyrus K. Holliday envisioned a railroad that would run from Kansas to the Pacific, increasing the commerce and prosperity of the nation. With farsighted investors and shrewd management, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad grew from Holliday's idea into a model of the modern, rapid, and efficient railroad. There were many growing pains. Rustlers, thieves, and desperadoes were as thick as the cattle in Kansas when the first rails were laid. When a conductor, toting a pistol, asked a grizzled prospector where he was heading, the old man replied, "Hell." "That's 65_ and get off at Dodge," the weary conductor declared. Once built with rails from Wales laid on ties of oak and walnut, the railroad survived the economic and climatic hardships of the late nineteenth century, and eventually extended from Chicago to San Francisco, with over 12,000 miles of track and substantial holdings in oil fields, timber land, uranium mines, pipe lines, and real estate.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803260665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
In 1859, Cyrus K. Holliday envisioned a railroad that would run from Kansas to the Pacific, increasing the commerce and prosperity of the nation. With farsighted investors and shrewd management, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad grew from Holliday's idea into a model of the modern, rapid, and efficient railroad. There were many growing pains. Rustlers, thieves, and desperadoes were as thick as the cattle in Kansas when the first rails were laid. When a conductor, toting a pistol, asked a grizzled prospector where he was heading, the old man replied, "Hell." "That's 65_ and get off at Dodge," the weary conductor declared. Once built with rails from Wales laid on ties of oak and walnut, the railroad survived the economic and climatic hardships of the late nineteenth century, and eventually extended from Chicago to San Francisco, with over 12,000 miles of track and substantial holdings in oil fields, timber land, uranium mines, pipe lines, and real estate.
The Bozeman trail; historical accounts of the blazing of the overland routs into the Northwest, and the fights with Red Cloud's warriors
Author: Grace Raymond Hebard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description