Description
Founded in 1834 on the high plains of present-day eastern Wyoming. Fort Laramie evolved into an organizational hub and chief supply center for the U.S. Army in its campaigns against the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians. Fort Laramie and the Great Sioux War focuses on a crucial year in the history of the fort, 1876. That was the year of General George Crook's Big Horn; the Black Hills gold rush; and chaos at the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Indian agencies. Paul Hedren draws upon official army records, diaries, and journals to illuminate a fort-based history of the Great Sioux War, and for this edition he also provides a new preface.
Author: Paul L. Hedren
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 10/15/1998
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.48w x 0.97d
ISBN13: 9780806130491
ISBN10: 0806130490
BISAC Categories:
- History | Military | United States
- History | United States | 19th Century
- History | Modern | 19th Century