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Lt. Col. Richard Irving Dodge's journals, written with utter candor for his eyes only, are the fullest firsthand account we possess of Gen. George Crook's Powder River Expedition against the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, which culminated in Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie's resounding destruction of Dull Knife's forces on November 25, 1876. Editor Wayne R. Kime, with his customary flair, has transcribed the journals from Dodge's pocket-size notebooks and has...
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How did the heroics of a frontier Kansas cattleman and post trader vault him into a commission with the famous Fifth Cavalry and a leading role in the Indian Wars of the 1870s?
In 1925, former cowboy, rancher, bullwhacker, Rocky Mountain miner, post-trader, Indian scout, and cavalry officer Col Homer W. Wheeler would write of his many hair-raising adventures on the Plains and Rocky Mountain frontier in his narrative titled, "Buffalo Days: Forty Years...
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"The Adventures with Nana series continues. But this time Nana has decided to take two of her other granchildren, Donnie and Violet Lynn, on a trip. But Donnie has broken his wrist while jumping on his trampoline at home. With his wrist in a cast, will Donnie be able to go on the trip with Nana and his older sister, Violet Lynn? And where are they going? Nana has given them western clothes. Wyoming in the 1800s? Aren't there Indian fights?" --from...