[PDF] Powder River Reunion eBook

Author : Paul L. Hedren
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 19,94 MB
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0806156139

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The Great Sioux War of 1876–77 began at daybreak on March 17, 1876, when Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds and six cavalry companies struck a village of Northern Cheyennes—Sioux allies—thereby propelling the Northern Plains tribes into war. The ensuing last stand of the Sioux against Anglo-American settlement of their homeland spanned some eighteen months, playing out across more than twenty battle and skirmish sites and costing hundreds of lives on both sides and many millions of dollars. And it all began at Powder River. Powder River: Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War recounts the wintertime Big Horn Expedition and its singular great battle, along with the stories of the Northern Cheyennes and their elusive leader Old Bear. Historian Paul Hedren tracks both sides of the conflict through a rich array of primary source material, including the transcripts of Reynolds’s court-martial and Indian recollections. The disarray and incompetence of the war’s beginnings—officers who failed to take proper positions, disregard of orders to save provisions, failure to cooperate, and abandonment of the dead and a wounded soldier—in many ways anticipated the catastrophe that later occurred at the Little Big Horn. Forty photographs, many previously unpublished, and five new maps detail the action from start to ignominious conclusion. Hedren’s comprehensive account takes Powder River out of the shadow of the Little Big Horn and reveals how much this critical battle tells us about the army’s policy and performance in the West, and about the debacle soon to follow.

Author : Richard Irving Dodge
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 28,94 MB
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806176857

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Lt. Col. Richard Irving Dodge’s journals, written with utter candor for his eyes only, are the fullest firsthand account we possess of Gen. George Crook’s Powder River Expedition against the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, which culminated in Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie’s resounding destruction of Dull Knife’s forces on November 25, 1876. Editor Wayne R. Kime, with his customary flair, has transcribed the journals from Dodge’s pocket-size notebooks and has provided a pertinent introduction and well-crafted, thoroughly illuminating annotations. Dodge’s journals will clearly prove useful to specialists in U.S. -Indian relations and the Great Sioux War, but they will also appeal to a variety of readers because of Dodge’s lively style and his range of subject matter. With vigorous intelligence, he describes such topics as General Crook as a military leader and strategist, the merits of infantry versus cavalry against the Plains Indians, the effects of subzero weather in Wyoming on a large army far from its sources of supply, and of course, the elusiveness of military glory.

Author : Myrna Temte
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 34,42 MB
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 145926021X

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EMMA BARNES WAS THE MOST INTERESTING BRIDE CANDIDATE SUNSHINE GAP, WYOMING, HAD EVER SEEN! But no man was a match for the feisty spitfire. Unless she dared to look the way of Cal McBride—the too-handsome, heart-strirring cowboy mayor…who was suddenly unengaged to be conveniently wed. Still, Cal could smash her heart to smithereens! So Emma tried not to look…. But Cal staged a stare-down. Emma's very presence proved he never could have traded passion for comfort. And now he would return the favor—by showing Emma that a gal who took they West the way she did could surely take the love of a lifetime too…. Hearts of Wyoming: Rugged and wild, the McBride family has love to share…and Wyoming weddings are on their minds!

Author : Kingsley M. Bray
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 2011-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806183764

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Crazy Horse was as much feared by tribal foes as he was honored by allies. His war record was unmatched by any of his peers, and his rout of Custer at the Little Bighorn reverberates through history. Yet so much about him is unknown or steeped in legend. Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life corrects older, idealized accounts—and draws on a greater variety of sources than other recent biographies—to expose the real Crazy Horse: not the brash Sioux warrior we have come to expect but a modest, reflective man whose courage was anchored in Lakota piety. Kingsley M. Bray has plumbed interviews of Crazy Horse’s contemporaries and consulted modern Lakotas to fill in vital details of Crazy Horse’s inner and public life. Bray places Crazy Horse within the rich context of the nineteenth-century Lakota world. He reassesses the war chief’s achievements in numerous battles and retraces the tragic sequence of misunderstandings, betrayals, and misjudgments that led to his death. Bray also explores the private tragedies that marred Crazy Horse’s childhood and the network of relationships that shaped his adult life. To this day, Crazy Horse remains a compelling symbol of resistance for modern Lakotas. Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life is a singular achievement, scholarly and authoritative, offering a complete portrait of the man and a fuller understanding of his place in American Indian and United States history.

Author : Myrna Temte
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1459236890

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BIG JAKE MCBRIDE KNEW HOPE DUMAINE COULDN’T DRIVE HIM NUTS—BECAUSE HE WAS ALREADY THERE! Hailing from Hollywood, Hope was young, rich, beautiful—and all wrong for hard-as-granite Wyoming rancher Jake. So how dare she claim that visiting rough-hewn Sunshine Gap made her feel at home? How dare she flaunt her fashionista charms at him, as if he were the only man for her? Hope made Jake mad enough to spit nails. Worse, she set his pulses jackrabbiting. Sure, her smile was pure as a mountain sunrise, her daring kisses sweet as wild honey. But what was Jake to do with a woman like Hope? Stampede her off—or lasso her? Either way, Jake knew he was in for the ride of a lifetime….