National Park Service historian Jerome A. Greene, a leading figure in western military historiography, here offers a comprehensive study of Fort Randall, which served as a bastion of U.S. Army presence in the Great Plains for thirty-eight years. Built in 1856, Fort Randall\u27s garrison was expected to keep peace among Native Plains nations, prevent Indian-white conflicts, and monitor the burgeoning traffic on overland trails and the Missouri River. Located just above the Nebraska-South Dakota border, Fort Randall lay within two hundred miles of the Ponca, Santee, Yankton, Rosebud, and Pine Ridge reservations. Despite its proximity to these sometimes troubled reservations, the post\u27s garrison saw relatively little combat. Native nations ...
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Richard 1. Dodge served in the United States Army from 1848 to 1891. By the time of the 1876 Powder ...
Books on the Sioux War of 1876 tend to concentrate on the defeat of George A. Custer at the Little B...
In the annals of American westward expansion in the nineteenth century, few locations stand out more...
The foremost army office! (next to Winfield Scott) from the end of the War of 1812 to the beginning ...
Interest in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, commonly known as Custer\u27s Last Stand, has not abat...
Slightly more than a century ago the dreaded Comanche Moon of each month virtually assured devasta...
Formal exploration of the Black Hills was long thwarted by their remoteness in northern Indian count...
In November 1876, Colonel Ranald Mackenzie led a successful attack on a Northern Cheyenne village in...
Jerome Greene, a well known historian of the Indian War period, has written another important contri...
The Army established Fort Robinson near the source of the White River on the Pine Ridge in northwest...
Review of: "Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska Civil War Veterans: Compilation of the Death Rolls of the Depa...
In 1874 and 1875, whites, lured by the discovery of gold in the Black Hills, poured into the norther...
Fort Robinson, located along the upper reaches of the White River in far northwest Nebraska, enjoyed...
Slightly more than a century ag9 the dreaded Comanche Moon of each month virtually assured devasta...
Jeff Barnes\u27s book presents brief histories and the historical importance of about fifty military...
Richard 1. Dodge served in the United States Army from 1848 to 1891. By the time of the 1876 Powder ...
Books on the Sioux War of 1876 tend to concentrate on the defeat of George A. Custer at the Little B...
In the annals of American westward expansion in the nineteenth century, few locations stand out more...
The foremost army office! (next to Winfield Scott) from the end of the War of 1812 to the beginning ...