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Deliverance from the Little Big Horn - Doctor Henry Porter and Custer's Seventh Cavalry (Paperback)
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Deliverance from the Little Big Horn - Doctor Henry Porter and Custer's Seventh Cavalry (Paperback)
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List price R585
Loot Price R484
Discovery Miles 4 840
You Save R101 (17%)
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Of the three surgeons who accompanied Custer's Seventh Cavalry on
June 25, 1876, only the youngest, twenty-eight-year-old Henry
Porter, survived that day's ordeal, riding through a gauntlet of
Indian attackers and up the steep bluffs to Major Marcus Reno's
hilltop position. But the story of Dr. Porter's wartime exploits
goes far beyond the battle itself. In this compelling narrative of
military endurance and medical ingenuity, Joan Nabseth Stevenson
opens a new window on the Battle of the Little Big Horn by
re-creating the desperate struggle for survival during the fight
and in its wake.
As Stevenson recounts in gripping detail, Porter's life-saving work
on the battlefield began immediately, as he assumed the care of
nearly sixty soldiers and two Indian scouts, attending to wounds
and performing surgeries and amputations. He evacuated the
critically wounded soldiers on mules and hand litters, embarking on
a hazardous trek of fifteen miles that required two river
crossings, the scaling of a steep cliff, and a treacherous descent
into the safety of the steamboat "Far West," waiting at the mouth
of the Little Big Horn River. There began a harrowing 700-mile
journey along the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers to the post
hospital at Fort Abraham Lincoln near Bismarck, Dakota
Territory.
With its new insights into the role and function of the army
medical corps and the evolution of battlefield medicine, this
unusual book will take its place both as a contribution to the
history of the Great Sioux War and alongside such vivid historical
novels as "Son of the Morning Star "and" Little Big Man." It will
also ensure that the selfless deeds of a lone "contract"
surgeon--unrecognized to this day by the U.S. government--will
never be forgotten.
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