Author: Medley and Jenson, firm, publishersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Illustrated Review, Seventh Cavalry, United States Army, Fort Riley, Kansas
Author: Medley and Jenson, firm, publishersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Seventh Cavalry, United States Army, Fort Riley, Kansas
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Fort Riley, Its Historic Past
Author: The History of Fort Riley
Author: Woodbury Freeman PridePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Riley (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Of GarryOwen in Glory
Author: Melbourne C. ChandlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
History of the Seventh United States Cavalry Regiment.
Fort Riley
Author: William McKalePublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738531694
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Founded in 1853, Fort Riley was established to protect merchants and settlers on the Santa Fe and Oregon-California Trails. Fort Riley kept the peace during the Civil War and in 1893, a cavalry school began operation there. Fort Riley continued to train mounted troops during the Golden Age of Cavalry after World War I, but also served as a training site for more than 150,000 troops during the first and second World Wars. This collection of vintage images commemorating the sesquicentennial of Fort Riley is a colorful, patriotic reminder of the military post that has served the nation continuously since its founding 150 years ago.
Welcome to Fort Riley
Author: Report of the March of the Seventh Cavalry Brigade (Mechanized) to and from Fort Riley, Kansas
Author: United States. Army. Cavalry Brigade, 7thPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Riley (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Life in Custer's Cavalry
Author: Albert BarnitzPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803295537
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Albert and Jennie Barnitz "were both perceptive, articulate individuals who fully realized that they were involved in fascinating historically important events. They have left a record of frontier military life that can scarcely be matched elsewhere. . . . Historian and buff alike will find this volume both enlightening and entertaining."--Paul A. Hutton, Journal of American History "The reader will come to like Albert and Jennie Barnitz, whose letters trigger a time machine in which we come to know a good deal more about Life in Custer's Cavalry."--Montana "Albert Barnitz. . .served with Custer's famed Seventh Cavalry for four years, 1867-70. . . . In 1867 Albert and Jennie (Platt), both of Ohio, married and headed for the Kansas frontier. Four months later the growing perils of Indian clashes forced her to return east. . . . [Their] letters and diaries, dated from January 17, 1867, to February 10, 1869, are vivid and accurate. . . . [They] provide a keen picture of life in the Seventh Cavalry, both in garrison and field, immediately after the Civil War."--The Historian Editor Robert Utley's books available in Bison Books editions include Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life; Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891; and Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865.
Comanche
Author: Barron BrownPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787209040
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Comanche, first published in 1935 and beautifully illustrated by the book’s author Barron Brown, is an account of the U.S. Army horse “Comanche,” who survived General George Armstrong Custer’s detachment of the United States 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. “Comanche” was bought by the U.S. Army in 1868 in St. Louis, Missouri and sent to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was captured in a wild horse roundup on April 3, 1868. Captain Myles Keogh of the 7th Cavalry liked the 15 hands (60 inches, 152 cm) gelding and bought him for his personal mount, to be ridden only in battle. In 1868, while the army was fighting the Comanche in Kansas, the horse was wounded in the hindquarters by an arrow but continued to carry Keogh in the fight. He named the horse “Comanche” to honor his bravery. “Comanche” was wounded many more times but always exhibited the same toughness. It was on June 25, 1876 that Captain Keogh rode “Comanche” at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, led by Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, in which their entire detachment was killed. U.S. soldiers found “Comanche,” badly wounded, two days after the battle. After being transported to Fort Lincoln, he was slowly nursed back to health. After a lengthy convalescence, “Comanche” was retired. In June 1879, “Comanche” was brought to Fort Meade by the Seventh Regiment, where he was kept like a prince until 1887. He was taken to Fort Riley, Kansas. As an honor, he was made “Second Commanding Officer” of the 7th Cavalry. “Comanche” died of colic on November 7, 1891, believed to be 29 years old at the time. He is one of only three horses in U.S. history to be given a military funeral with full military honors, the others were “Black Jack” and “Sergeant Reckless.” His remains were sent to the University of Kansas and preserved, where the taxidermy mount can still be seen today in the university’s Natural History Museum.