Fort Phil Kearny

Auteur

Dee Brown (1908–2002) was the author of several novels in addition to his nonfiction books, which include Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West (Bison Books, 1981), and The Galvanized Yankees (Bison Books, 1986). Shannon D. Smith is the former executive director for the Wyoming Humanities Council and taught at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for seven years. She is the author of Give Me Eighty Men: Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight (Nebraska, 2008).

Texte du rabat

The first detailed account of the history of Fort Phil Kearny, including the dramatic Fetterman Fight of December 21, 1866, in which the U.S. Army suffered its worst defeat on the northern plains until Custer’s defeat at the Little Bighorn ten years later.

Contenu

I. April: Moon When the Geese Lay Eggs
II. May: Planting Moon
III. June: Moon When the Green Grass Is Up
IV: July: Moon When the Chokecherries are Ripe
V: August: Moon When the Geese Shed Their Feathers
VI: September: Drying Grass Moon
VII: October: Harvest Moon
VIII: November: Deer Rutting Moon
IX: December: Moon When the Deer Shed Their Horns
X: January: Moon of Strong Cold
XI: Aftermath
Bibliography
Notes
Index