A Good Year to Die: The Story of the Great Sioux WarRandom House, 1995 - 412 Seiten It was 1876, The Black Hills, which overlap the boundary between South Dakota and Wyoming, had become the last important battleground of a tragic war against the Indians. The Indians were to be trapped in a three-pronged attack by General Crook, General Terry, and Colonel Custer, but the rugged country - where the temperature could often dip thirty to forty degrees in just a few hours - thwarted almost every foray. By the time the campaign had ended, the army had suffered several major reversals: Custer and his troops were massacred at the Little Bighorn and General George Crook met with near-disaster at the Rosebud; the brilliant Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse was dead; Sitting Bull and his band had been driven to Canada; and the military power of the Sioux and the Northern Cheyennes was broken. The government achieved its aims, but the casualties both sides had suffered made these wars the most unnecessary ever fought between the federal government and the Indians. Much of the dramatic narrative is based on first-hand accounts of the participants, diaries and letters of American soldiers, and the oral histories of many of the Indians who fought them. |
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... Once the sol- diers were out of sight , the main body of warriors would come out of concealment and cut the troops to pieces . The first attempt came on December 19 , when the Indian decoys attacked a wood train returning from the post ...
... Once the sol- diers were out of sight , the main body of warriors would come out of concealment and cut the troops to pieces . The first attempt came on December 19 , when the Indian decoys attacked a wood train returning from the post ...
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... once the advance began , the Indians would be forced out the other end of the village . There they would be caught by Moore's men , firing down at them from the bluffs , and effectively trapped - assuming , of course , that Moore was in ...
... once the advance began , the Indians would be forced out the other end of the village . There they would be caught by Moore's men , firing down at them from the bluffs , and effectively trapped - assuming , of course , that Moore was in ...
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... Once it was determined the majority of the dead government scouts were Rees , rather than Crook's Crows or Shoshones , it dawned on the Indians that more soldiers were in the area . Then , during the afternoon , they learned Terry and ...
... Once it was determined the majority of the dead government scouts were Rees , rather than Crook's Crows or Shoshones , it dawned on the Indians that more soldiers were in the area . Then , during the afternoon , they learned Terry and ...
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The Indians and the Land | 3 |
Defeat and Duplicity | 13 |
Black Hills Fever | 24 |
Urheberrecht | |
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army arrived attack Baldwin band battalion began Benteen Black Elk Black Hills bluffs Bourke Bradley buffalo Bull's camp Cavalry Centennial Campaign chiefs Colonel companies Crazy Horse Creek Crook Crows Custer Myth dians Diary east expedition Fetterman fight Finerty fire force Fort Abraham Lincoln Fort Fetterman Fort Phil Kearny Frank Grouard George Crook Gibbon herd hostiles Hunkpapas hunting Ibid Indian scouts infantry June killed Lakotas Laramie lieutenant Little Big Little Bighorn lodges Mackenzie Marquis Merritt Miles military Mills Miniconjous Missouri moved mules Nation Nebraska Neihardt night officers Oglalas ordered pack Platte ponies Powder River ravine Red Cloud Agency Reno Reno's reported Reynolds ridge rifle rode Rosebud sent Sheridan Sherman Shoshones Sioux War Sitting Bull soldiers Special File-Sioux Spotted Tail Territory Terry Terry's tipis told Tongue trail tribes troopers troops valley village wagons War-Path warriors women Wooden Leg wounded wrote Wyoming