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Fort Laramie - Military Bastion of the High Plains (Paperback)
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Fort Laramie - Military Bastion of the High Plains (Paperback)
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Of all the U.S. Army posts in the West, none witnessed more history
than Fort Laramie, positioned where the northern Great Plains join
the Rocky Mountains. From its beginnings as a trading post in 1834
to its abandonment by the army in 1890, it was involved in the
buffalo hide trade, overland migrations, Indian wars and treaties,
the Utah War, Confederate maneuvering, and the coming of the
telegraph and first transcontinental railroad. Douglas C.
McChristian has written the first complete history of Fort Laramie,
chronicling every critical stage in its existence, including its
addition to the National Park System. He draws on an extraordinary
array of archival materials-including those at Fort Laramie
National Historic Site-to present new data about the fort and new
interpretations of historical events. Emphasizing the fort's
military history, McChristian documents the army's vital role in
ending challenges posed by American Indians to U.S. occupation and
settlement of the region, and he expands on the fort's interactions
with the many Native peoples of the Central Plains and Rocky
Mountains. He provides a particularly lucid description of the
infamous Grattan fight of 1854, which initiated a generation of
strife between Indians and U.S. soldiers, and he recounts the 1851
Horse Creek and 1868 Fort Laramie treaties. Meticulously researched
and gracefully told, this is a long-overdue military history of one
of the American West's most venerable historic places.
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