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Post by Mike Powell on Sept 18, 2009 9:26:55 GMT -6
Just returned from the area and am feeling some interest develop. Does anyone have a recommendation on a single volume (or two...) on this fight?
Thanks in advance.
Mike Powell
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Post by markland on Sept 18, 2009 10:26:33 GMT -6
Mike, you asked for it Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed: The Struggle for the Powder River Country in 1866 and the Making of the Fetterman Myth by John H. Monnett Give Me Eighty Men: Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight-Shannon Smith Promise: Bozeman's Trail to Destiny-Serle L. Chapman The Ft. Phil Kearny Massacre-Dee Brown Absaroka-Margaret Carrington The Bloody Bozeman: The Perilous Trail To Montana's Gold-Dorothy M. Johnson Bound For Montana: Diaries From the Bozeman Trail-Susan Badger Doyle The Bozeman Trail Vol. 1 & 2-Grace Raymond Hebard & E. A. Brininstool The Bozeman Trail - Historical Accounts of the Blazing of the Overland Routes Into the Northwest and the Fights with Red Cloud's Warriors-Grace Raymond Hebard & E. A. Brininstool Red Cloud and the Sioux Problem-James C. Olson The Wagon Box Fight: An Episode of Red Cloud's War-Jerry Keenan And I always recommend McDermott's Circle of Fire: The Indian War of 1865 to get an historical perspective. Note: Jeff Broome is currently writing a book dealing with the Indian Wars during the ACW in Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska. My stuff: freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~familyinformation/#fpkBilly
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Post by ignimbrite on Sept 18, 2009 22:27:51 GMT -6
I've just finished reading Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed: The Struggle for the Powder River Country in 1866 and the Making of the Fetterman Myth by John H. Monnett for the second time. I'd recommend that as a good contemporary account that pulls together current scholarship. This board's one and only Billy Markland is credited several times for material cited.
I've read Circle of Fire: The Indian War of 1865 and Susan Badger Doyle's shorter book Journeys to the Land of Gold : Emigrant diaries from the Bozeman Trail but not any of the other books Billy mentioned. I'll second his recommendation for Circle of Fire for an overall perspective.
Ruth
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Post by Mike Powell on Sept 19, 2009 16:19:54 GMT -6
Billy and Ruth,
Thanks. I think I'll pull the trigger on When A Hundred. At the site last week I had a nice chat with the Superintendent (missed his name). He acquainted me with the far north end of the property containing the rocks where Fisher and the others made their stand. One of those rocks has very legible chiseling with names, "Killed by Indians", etc. done up around 1952. I'll put up some photos next week.
Thanks again,
Mike Powell
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