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Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed
John H. Monnett
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Paperback. Num Pages: 316 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 534.
The Powder River country of what is now north central Wyoming was one of the most resource-rich regions of the northern plains in the nineteenth century. As U.S. mining interests and white settlement to the north in Montana Territory increased, conflict arose between the United States and the Lakota and Cheyenne nations. On December 21, 1866, the struggle climaxed when a well-organized force of Lakota, Northern Cheyennes, and Arapahos attacked and destroyed a detachment of forty-nine infantrymen and three officers of the 18th Infantry, twenty-seven troopers of the 2nd Cavalry, and two civilians under the command of Captain William Judd ... Read more
The Powder River country of what is now north central Wyoming was one of the most resource-rich regions of the northern plains in the nineteenth century. As U.S. mining interests and white settlement to the north in Montana Territory increased, conflict arose between the United States and the Lakota and Cheyenne nations. On December 21, 1866, the struggle climaxed when a well-organized force of Lakota, Northern Cheyennes, and Arapahos attacked and destroyed a detachment of forty-nine infantrymen and three officers of the 18th Infantry, twenty-seven troopers of the 2nd Cavalry, and two civilians under the command of Captain William Judd ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826345042
SKU
V9780826345042
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About John H. Monnett
John H. Monnett is a professor of Native American history at the Metropolitan State College of Denver. He is the author of several books, including Massacre at Cheyenne Hole: Lieutenant Austin Henely and the Sappa Creek Controversy and Tell Them We Are Going Home: The Odyssey of the Northern Cheyennes.
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