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Powder River - Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War (Paperback)
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Powder River - Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War (Paperback)
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The Great Sioux War of 1876-77 began at daybreak on March 17, 1876,
when Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds and six cavalry companies struck a
village of Northern Cheyennes - Sioux allies - thereby propelling
the Northern Plains tribes into war. The ensuing last stand of the
Sioux against Anglo-American settlement of their homeland spanned
some eighteen months, playing out across more than twenty battle
and skirmish sites and costing hundreds of lives on both sides and
many millions of dollars. And it all began at Powder River. Powder
River: Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War recounts the
wintertime Big Horn Expedition and its singular great battle, along
with the stories of the Northern Cheyennes and their elusive leader
Old Bear. Historian Paul Hedren tracks both sides of the conflict
through a rich array of primary source material, including the
transcripts of Reynolds's court-martial and Indian recollections.
The disarray and incompetence of the war's beginnings - officers
who failed to take proper positions, disregard of orders to save
provisions, failure to cooperate, and abandonment of the dead and a
wounded soldier - in many ways anticipated the catastrophe that
later occurred at the Little Big Horn. Forty photographs, many
previously unpublished, and five new maps detail the action from
start to ignominious conclusion. Hedren's comprehensive account
takes Powder River out of the shadow of the Little Big Horn and
reveals how much this critical battle tells us about the army's
policy and performance in the West, and about the debacle soon to
follow.
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