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Barcode30293102008823
LocationClark County
Call NoWestern F Murp
TitleBozeman paymaster : a tale of the Fetterman Massacre / Robert Lee Murphy ; [Maps: Robert Lee Murphy, Phyllis Mignard].
AuthorMurphy, Robert Lee. author, cartographer.
CollectionF Western
Total Circ1
NumReserves0
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293102008823Western F Murp6/21/2022 AvailableClark County

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781432892999 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 1432892991
Personal Name Murphy, Robert Lee. author, cartographer.
Title Statement Bozeman paymaster : a tale of the Fetterman Massacre / Robert Lee Murphy ; [Maps: Robert Lee Murphy, Phyllis Mignard].
Edition Statement First edition. Regular print.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice Waterville, Maine : Five star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022.
Physical Description 453 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Summary, Etc. Reminiscent of the Taliban prevailing in Afghanistan, Bozeman Paymaster is the story of how in the nation's drive to advance Manifest Destiny it blundered into one of its most distressing reverses. Fighting to defend their favorite buffalo hunting grounds following the Civil War, Lakota Chief Red Cloud's coalition of Sioux, Northern Cheyennes, and Arapahos drove the military forces out of the Powder River country of modern-day Wyoming. On a bone-chilling day in December 1866, Captain William Fetterman led eighty men into the army's worst defeat at the hands of the Indians until Custer's Last Stand a decade later. Despite the turmoil of virtually constant Indian attacks at Fort Phil Kearny, a youthful paymaster clerk and a beautiful young schoolteacher fall in love. Their future is torn asunder when in the aftermath of the Fetterman Massacre the United States abandons the forts protecting the Bozeman Trail, closing the shortest route used by immigrants to reach Montana's goldfields. Red Cloud's War was the only war the American Indians won fighting the U.S. Army.
Subject-Personal Name Red Cloud, 1822-1909 Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Fetterman Fight, Wyo., 1866 Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Red Cloud's War, 1866-1867 Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Wyoming History Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Bozeman Trail Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Western fiction.
Added Entry, Personal Name Mignard, Phyllis. cartographer.

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