Absaraka: Home of the Crows
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0803263155
ISBN13:9780803263154
Release Date:November 1983
Publisher:Bison Books
Length:284 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"
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A wonderful portrayal of frontier life in the 1860s.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
A wonderful book on the American frontier of the 1860s. Margaret Carrington accompanies her husband, US Army COL Henry Carrington, to Indian territory on the Powder River in Montana to set up forts along the newly opened Bozeman Trail. The book portrays the undaunted spirit of the pioneers and the struggle with the Indians. An excellent read.
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