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1 online resource (397 pages) : frontispiece, illustrations, plates, 2 maps |
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FRONTIS -- DEDICATION. -- PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION. -- CONTENTS. -- CHAPTER I. -- ABSARAKA, HOME OF THE CROWS. -- CHAPTER II. -- ABSARAKA DESCRIBED. -- CHAPTER III. -- THE NATURAL HISTORY AND CLIMATE OF ABSARAKA. -- CHAPTER IV. -- ORGANIZATION OF THE EXPEDITION TO ABSARAKA. -- CHAPTER V. -- FROM FORT KEARNEY TO CROSSING OF UNION PACIFIC RAIL-ROAD -- INCIDENTS OF THE PLATTE RIVER TRAVEL -- REUNION OF THE OFFICERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH INFANTRY -- CROSSING THE RIDICULOUS PLATTE -- CHAPTER VI. -- REMINISCENCES OF RANCHING, AND OLD TIMES ON THE ROUTE FROM LEAVENWORTH TO SEDGEWICK. -- CHAPTER VII |
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UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD TO LARAMIE -- COURT-HOUSE ROCK -- CHIMNEY ROCK -- FORTIFICATION ROCK -- SCOTT'S BLUFFS -- WONDERFUL FISHING -- VISIT OF STANDING ELK -- CHAPTER VIII. -- FORT LARAMIE COUNCIL OF 1866 -- ITS RESULTS FORESHADOWED -- THE ABORIGINES IN THE MART OF TRADE -- HOW THE INDIANS DID AND DID NOT -- CHAPTER IX. -- LARAMIE TO RENO -- CAMP PHISTERER CANON -- LARAMIE PEAK -- WILD FLORA -- PUMPKIN BUTTES -- CHAPTER X. -- FORT RENO -- INDIAN RAID -- FORT LARAMIE TREATY TESTED -- FOURTH OF JULY IN ABSARAKA -- ORGANIZATION OF MOUNTAIN DISTRICT -- ONWARD MOVEMENT -- MORE RATTLESNAKES |
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MERCURY ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN DEGREES ABOVE ZERO -- WHAT IT DID -- CHAPTER XI. -- RECONNOISSANCES -- INDIAN MESSENGERS -- WARNINGS -- LOCATION OF FORT PHILIP KEARNEY -- CONDUCT OF THE TROOPS, AND ITS CAUSE -- CHAPTER XII. -- ARRIVAL OF INDIANS -- THE CHEYENNES IN COUNCIL -- BLACK HORSE THE RABBIT THAT JUMPS, RED SLEEVE, DULL KNIFE, AND OTHERS HAVE MUCH TALK AND "HEAP OF SMOKE." -- CHAPTER XIII. -- MASSACRE OF LOUIS GAZZOUS' PARTY -- INDIAN RAID AND GREAT LOSS OF MULES -- THE CHEYENNES AGAIN -- FORTY HOSTILE DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE "PEACEABLE TRIBES" -- THE LARAMIE TREATY INCIDENTALLY TESTED |
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MASSACRE OF LIEUTENANT DANIELS -- A FIGHTING PARSON -- CHAPTER XIV. -- CONDUCT OF THE CROW INDIANS -- WHAT BRIDGER AND BECK-WITH SAY -- CHAPTER XV. -- VISIT OF INSPECTOR-GENERAL HAZEN -- REINFORCEMENTS ON THE WAY -- MOUNTED INFANTRY COMPARED WITH SIOUX LIGHT CAVALRY -- UNITED STATES MAILS -- CORRAL SYSTEM -- TIMBER AND LUMBER SUPPLIED TO ORDER -- CHAPTER XVI. -- FORT PHILIP KEARNEY AND SURROUNDINGS -- A PICNIC -- ASCENT OF THE MOUNTAINS -- LAKE SMEDT -- FINE SCENERY -- PLAN OF THE FORT -- CHAPTER XVII. -- TWO HOLIDAYS -- OCTOBER INSPECTION AND REVIEW -- FIRST GARRISON FLAG HOISTED IN ABSARAKA |
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INCIDENTS OF THE DAY -- INDIAN RESPONSE TO A NATIONAL SALUTE -- LOOKING-GLASSES IN ABUNDANCE -- EVENING LEVEE -- CHAPTER XVIII. -- A DAY OF INCIDENTS -- HOSTILE SIOUX AND FRIENDLY CHEYENNES -- ARROW ESCAPE OF THE LATTER -- OUR PICKET MIMICKED -- MORE MASSACRES -- CROQUET INTRODUCED INTO ABSARAKA -- CHAPTER XIX. -- NIGHT SCENES -- CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL VISITORS -- AURORA -- LUNAR RAINBOW -- METEORITES -- INDIANS ALL IN THEIR WAR-PAINT -- CHAPTER XX. -- DOMESTIC, SOCIAL, AND RELIGIOUS LIFE, WITH THE EPISODES THEREIN OCCURRING -- CHAPTER XXI. -- INDIAN WARFARE |
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Originally published: Ab-sa-ra-ka, land of massacre: being the experience of an officer's wife on the plains. With an outline of Indian operations and conferences from 1865 to 1878. Philadelphia [etc.]: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1879 |
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Print version record |
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United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 18th.
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United States. Army -- Military life.
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United States. Army. fast (OCoLC)fst00533532 |
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United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 18th. fast (OCoLC)fst00648275 |
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Wyoming
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Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895.
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Indians of North America -- Wyoming.
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Crow Indians.
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Fetterman Fight, Wyo., 1866.
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Crow Indians.
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Frontier and pioneer life.
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Indians of North America.
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Indians of North America -- Wars.
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Armed Forces -- Military life.
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Wyoming -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148714
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Wyoming.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781582183831 |
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158218383X |
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