Author: Oliver Knight
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806125176
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The officers and ladies of the Old Army were an elite if exiled group in the Trans-Mississippi West during the period of the Indian Wars from 1865 to 1890. In, but seldom of, Western communities, and often isolated far in advance of homesteaders, they maintained a stylized code of conduct shaping the life and manners of many frontier posts, often under formidable circumstances. Their isolation - social, psychological, and physical - gave them a sense of unity not easily to be found elsewhere in the American society of their time. To bring us a truer picture of their milieu is the purpose of this book.
Life and Manners in the Frontier Army
The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West
Author: Michael L. Tate
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A reassessment of the military's role in developing the Western territories moves beyond combat stories and stereotypes to focus on more non-martial accomplishments such as exploration, gathering scientific data, and building towns.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A reassessment of the military's role in developing the Western territories moves beyond combat stories and stereotypes to focus on more non-martial accomplishments such as exploration, gathering scientific data, and building towns.
Frontier Life in the Army, 1854-1861
Author: Eugene Bandel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Starlight Ranch, and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier
Author: Charles King
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Starlight Ranch, and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier" by Charles King. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Starlight Ranch, and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier" by Charles King. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Army Wives on the American Frontier
Author: Anne Bruner Eales
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781555661663
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"No one interested in the history of the American West or in women's history should miss this well-written, carefully researched, comprehensive treatment of a subject that previous scholars have largely ignored. Based on the writings of more than fifty women who accompanied their husbands to remote duty posts in the far west.
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781555661663
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"No one interested in the history of the American West or in women's history should miss this well-written, carefully researched, comprehensive treatment of a subject that previous scholars have largely ignored. Based on the writings of more than fifty women who accompanied their husbands to remote duty posts in the far west.
Fort Union and the Frontier Army in the Southwest
Author: Leo E. Oliva
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Union (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Union (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
The Frontier, Army and Professional Life
Author: Edwin Ward Finch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier
Author: Alice Kirk Grierson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803279292
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Collects the letters of the wife of Civil War major general Benjamin H. Grierson, describing daily life and hardships at frontier posts like Fort Riley, Fort Concho, Fort Davis, and Fort Grant
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803279292
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Collects the letters of the wife of Civil War major general Benjamin H. Grierson, describing daily life and hardships at frontier posts like Fort Riley, Fort Concho, Fort Davis, and Fort Grant
For better or worse
Author: Constance Wynn Altchuler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Nomad
Author: Brian W. Dippie
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292772092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Between 1867 and 1875, George Armstrong Custer contributed fifteen letters under the apt pseudonym Nomad to the New York-based sportsman's journal Turf, Field and Farm. Previously available only in a collector's typescript edition, the Nomad letters offer valuable insight into the character of the Boy General as he gives expression to his abiding love for hunting, horses, and hounds. Vivid accounts of days in the field after buffalo and deer alternate with letters that attest to Custer's passion for Kentucky thoroughbreds and trotters and his devotion to his favorite hunting dogs. Moreover, the letters show Custer as a student of literature who constandy alluded to works of fiction and drama and who loved to quote poetry as he self-consciously honed his skills as a writer. The Nomad letters also open the way to controversy since three of the letters written in 1867, as Brian Dippie's careful annotations make clear, offer a strikingly different account of Custer's ill-starred induction into Indian fighting than the accepted version recorded five years later in his memoirs, My Life on the Plains. Composed only a few months after the abortive Hancock Expedition that led to Custer's court-martial and suspension from rank and pay for one year, the Nomad letters are full of a passion and venom absent from My Life on the Plains. They provide an immediate response to the events of 1867 that will interest all students of the Western Indian wars and of Custer's fascinating career.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292772092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Between 1867 and 1875, George Armstrong Custer contributed fifteen letters under the apt pseudonym Nomad to the New York-based sportsman's journal Turf, Field and Farm. Previously available only in a collector's typescript edition, the Nomad letters offer valuable insight into the character of the Boy General as he gives expression to his abiding love for hunting, horses, and hounds. Vivid accounts of days in the field after buffalo and deer alternate with letters that attest to Custer's passion for Kentucky thoroughbreds and trotters and his devotion to his favorite hunting dogs. Moreover, the letters show Custer as a student of literature who constandy alluded to works of fiction and drama and who loved to quote poetry as he self-consciously honed his skills as a writer. The Nomad letters also open the way to controversy since three of the letters written in 1867, as Brian Dippie's careful annotations make clear, offer a strikingly different account of Custer's ill-starred induction into Indian fighting than the accepted version recorded five years later in his memoirs, My Life on the Plains. Composed only a few months after the abortive Hancock Expedition that led to Custer's court-martial and suspension from rank and pay for one year, the Nomad letters are full of a passion and venom absent from My Life on the Plains. They provide an immediate response to the events of 1867 that will interest all students of the Western Indian wars and of Custer's fascinating career.