Circle of Fire: The Indian War of 1865 by John D. McDermott
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Circle of Fire: The Indian War of 1865 by John D. McDermott
1865 was a bloody year on the plains. Various Indian tribes, including the Southern Cheyennes and the Southern Sioux, had joined with their northern relatives to wage war on the white man, soldier and settler alike. At Julesburg, Mud Springs, Rock Creek, Platte Bridge, Red Buttes, and Powder River, they sought revenge for the massacre at Sand Creek the year before when Col. John Chivington and his Colorado volunteers nearly wiped out a village of Southern Cheyennes and Arapahos. The fighting in eastern Colorado spread westward to Fort Laramie and Fort Caspar in southeastern and central Wyoming and then moved north to the lands along the Wyoming-Montana border.
On the surface, the story of the conflict is one of cruelty, hardship, courage, victory, and defeat. But underlying these issues are more complex factors such as the fraud and corruption endemic in the system; the whites' technological superiority versus the Indians' better knowledge of the terrain and superior equestrian skills; and institutional deficiencies. Utilizing new material as well as western contemporary newspapers and little-known nineteenth-century printed material from both the Library of Congress and historical societies throughout the west, author John D. McDermott breathes life into the terrible events surrounding the Indian War of 1865.
Stackpole Books, Hardcover, 2003
This is a BRAND NEW book.
1865 was a bloody year on the plains. Various Indian tribes, including the Southern Cheyennes and the Southern Sioux, had joined with their northern relatives to wage war on the white man, soldier and settler alike. At Julesburg, Mud Springs, Rock Creek, Platte Bridge, Red Buttes, and Powder River, they sought revenge for the massacre at Sand Creek the year before when Col. John Chivington and his Colorado volunteers nearly wiped out a village of Southern Cheyennes and Arapahos. The fighting in eastern Colorado spread westward to Fort Laramie and Fort Caspar in southeastern and central Wyoming and then moved north to the lands along the Wyoming-Montana border.
On the surface, the story of the conflict is one of cruelty, hardship, courage, victory, and defeat. But underlying these issues are more complex factors such as the fraud and corruption endemic in the system; the whites' technological superiority versus the Indians' better knowledge of the terrain and superior equestrian skills; and institutional deficiencies. Utilizing new material as well as western contemporary newspapers and little-known nineteenth-century printed material from both the Library of Congress and historical societies throughout the west, author John D. McDermott breathes life into the terrible events surrounding the Indian War of 1865.
Stackpole Books, Hardcover, 2003
This is a BRAND NEW book.
