Author: Grace Raymond HebardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The Bozeman Trail
Author: Grace Raymond HebardPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781346559551
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
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Bound for Montana
Author: Susan Badger DoylePublisher: Montana Historical Society
ISBN: 9780917298981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Bound for Montana is an abridgement of the prize-winning two volume series, Journeys to the Land of Gold. The abridgement includes diary and journal excerpts from travelers moving overland in the 1860s, bound for Montana.
The Bozeman Trail
Author: Grace Raymond HebardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bozeman Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Red Cloud's War: The situation
Author: John Dishon McDermottPublisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
On a cold December day in 1866, Captain William J. Fetterman disobeyed orders and spurred his men across Lodge Trail Ridge in pursuit of a group of retreating Lakota Sioux, Arapahos, and Cheyennes. He saw a perfect opportunity to punish the tribes for harassing travelers on the Bozeman Trail and attacking wood trains sent out from nearby Fort Phil Kearny. In a sudden turn of events, his command was, within moments, annihilated. John D. McDermott's masterful retelling of the Fetterman Disaster is just one episode of Red Cloud's War, the most comprehensive history of the Bozeman Trail yet written. In vivid detail, McDermott recounts how the discovery of gold in Montana in 1863 led to the opening of the 250-mile route from Fort Laramie to the goldfields near Virginia City, and the fortification of this route with three military posts. The road crossed the Powder River Basin, the last, best hunting grounds of the Northern Plains tribes. Oglala chief Red Cloud and his allies mounted a campaign of armed resistance against the army and Montana-bound settlers. Among a host of small but bloody clashes were such major battles as the Fetterman Disaster, the Wagon Box Fight, and the Hayfield Fight, all of them famous in the annals of the Indian Wars. McDermott's spellbinding narrative offers a cautionary tale of hubris and mis-calculation. The United States Army suffered one setback after another; what reputation for effectiveness it had gained during the Civil War dissipated in the skirmishing in faraway Big Horn country. In a thoughtful conclusion, McDermott reflects on the tribes' victories and the consequences of the Treaty of 1868. By successfully defending their hunting grounds, the Northern Plains tribes delayed an ultimate reckoning that would come a decade later on the Little Bighorn, on the Red Forks of the Powder River, at Slim Buttes, at Wolf Mountain, and in a dozen other places where warrior and trooper met in the final clashes on the western plains. The leather-bound collector's edition is limited to fifty-five numbered and signed copies in a handsome slipcase, of which fifty are offered for sale.
The Bozeman Trail: Preface
Author: Grace Raymond HebardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bozeman Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Journeys to the Land of Gold
Author: Susan Badger DoylePublisher: Montana Historical Society
ISBN: 9780917298486
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Collected here for the first time ever are the surviving eyewitness accounts of the Bozeman's Trail's civilian emigrants: twenty-four diaries written during the journey and nine reminiscences prepared afterward. These accounts describe life on the West's last great emigrant trail, the shortcut from the Platte River Road to the Montana goldfields, from 1863 until 1866, when the route was closed by "Red Cloud's War." Ample introductions, extensive annotation, historical illustrations, and detailed maps enrich this oversized, two-volume compendium.
The Bloody Bozeman
Author: Dorothy M. JohnsonPublisher: Mountain Press Publishing
ISBN: 9780878421527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A history of the Bozeman Trail, which led to the goldfields of Montana, begins with the creation of the Trail in 1862 and follows the events of 1863 through 1868, during which it was followed by prospectors seeking their fortunes, as well as the gamblers, highwaymen, "professional women", and merchants who sought to capitalize on the miner's needs and vices; facing hostile Indians, hard climates, and wilderness solitude along the way.
The Bozeman Trail
Author: Grace Raymond HebardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bozeman Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Bozeman Trail (Annotated)
Author: E. A. BrininstoolPublisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781519054968
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
GOLD! The age-old motivator and one that saw tens of thousands of Americans fueling westward expansion to the Pacific coast. In 1863, John Bozeman pioneered a route that connected Montana gold fields to the Oregon Trail. As the Civil War closed, the flow of emigrants turned into a flood, angering the Native Americans over this intrusion into their nomadic lands. The Lakota chief Red Cloud declared war. Here are the stories of the years when the dangerous Bozeman Trail was in use. From it's first wagon train to the closing of the forts that protected the route, some of the most storied pioneers of the west played a part. The legendary Jim Bridger and the Fetterman Fight are just part of the adventure. Every memoir of the American West provides us with another view of the migration that changed the country forever.
The Bozeman trail; historical accounts of the blazing of the overland routs into the Northwest, and the fights with Red Cloud's warriors
Author: Grace Raymond HebardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description