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Fort Laramie and the Great Sioux War

By: Paul L. Hedren

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Fort Laramie and the Great Sioux War

By: Paul L. Hedren

Founded in 1834 on the high plains of present-day eastern Wyoming. Fort Laramie evolved into an organizational hub and chief supply center for the U.S. Army in its campaigns against the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians. Fort Laramie and the Great Sioux War focuses on a crucial year in the history of the fort, 1876. That was the year of General George Crook’s Big Horn; the Black Hills gold rush; and chaos at the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Indian agencies. Paul Hedren draws upon official army records, diaries, and journals to illuminate a fort-based history of the Great Sioux War, and for this edition he also provides a new preface.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806130490

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9780806130491

Rosebud, June 17, 1876

Prelude to the Little Big Horn

By: Paul L. Hedren

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Rosebud, June 17, 1876

Prelude to the Little Big Horn

By: Paul L. Hedren

The Battle of the Rosebud may well be the largest Indian battle ever fought in the American West. The monumental clash on June 17, 1876, along Rosebud Creek in southeastern Montana pitted George Crook and his Shoshone and Crow allies against Sioux and Northern Cheyennes under Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. It set the stage for the battle that occurred eight days later when, just twenty-five miles away, George Armstrong Custer blundered into the very same village that had outmatched Crook. Historian Paul L. Hedren presents the definitive account of this critical battle, from its antecedents in the Sioux campaign to its historic consequences. Rosebud, June 17, 1876 explores in unprecedented detail the events of the spring and early summer of 1876. Drawing on an extensive array of sources, including government reports, diaries, reminiscences, and a previously untapped trove of newspaper stories, the book traces the movements of both Indian forces and U.S. troops and their Indian allies as Brigadier General Crook commenced his second great campaign against the northern Indians for the year. Both Indian and army paths led to Rosebud Creek, where warriors surprised Crook and then parried with his soldiers for the better part of a day on an enormous field. Describing the battle from multiple viewpoints, Hedren narrates the action moment by moment, capturing the ebb and flow of the fighting. Throughout he weighs the decisions and events that contributed to Crook’s tactical victory, and to his fateful decision thereafter not to pursue his adversary. The result is a uniquely comprehensive view of an engagement that made history and then changed its course. Rosebud was at once a battle won and a battle lost. With informed attention to the subtleties and significance of both outcomes, as well as to the fears and motivations on all sides, Hedren has given new meaning to this consequential fight, and new insight into its place in the larger story of the Great Sioux War.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806163704

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9780806163703

We Trailed the Sioux

Enlisted Men Speak on Custer, Crook, and the Great Sioux War

By: Paul L. Hedren

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We Trailed the Sioux

Enlisted Men Speak on Custer, Crook, and the Great Sioux War

By: Paul L. Hedren

Drawing from some fifty unique sources, author Paul L. Hedren has crafted a fascinating account of the experiences of enlisted soldiers engaged in the Great Sioux War. The story tells of tiresome campaigning, bad water, scarce firewood, mosquitoes, extreme cold and heat, fighting, burying comrades, and the drudgery and horror of it all. Drawn exclusively from original diaries, letters, and reminiscences penned by the campaigners themselves, this book offers a perspective of the Indian Wars otherwise unavailable to students of the period today. - First-hand accounts of Indian fighting - Rare memoirs and diaries - An insight into American attitudes towards their Indian foe

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Stackpole Books

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0811700623

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9780811700627

After Custer

Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country

By: Paul L. Hedren

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After Custer

Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country

By: Paul L. Hedren

Between 1876 and 1877, the U.S. Army battled Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians in a series of vicious conflicts known today as the Great Sioux War. After the defeat of Custer at the Little Big Horn in June 1876, the army responded to its stunning loss by pouring fresh troops and resources into the war effort. In the end, the U.S. Army prevailed, but at a significant cost. In this unique contribution to American western history, Paul L. Hedren examines the war’s effects on the culture, environment, and geography of the northern Great Plains, their Native inhabitants, and the Anglo-American invaders. As Hedren explains, U.S. military control of the northern plains following the Great Sioux War permitted the Northern Pacific Railroad to extend westward from the Missouri River. The new transcontinental line brought hide hunters who targeted the great northern buffalo herds and ultimately destroyed them. A de-buffaloed prairie lured cattlemen, who in turn spawned their own culture. Through forced surrender of their lands and lifeways, Lakotas and Northern Cheyennes now experienced even more stress and calamity than they had endured during the war itself. The victors, meanwhile, faced a different set of challenges, among them providing security for the railroad crews, hide hunters, and cattlemen. Hedren is the first scholar to examine the events of 1876–77 and their aftermath as a whole, taking into account relationships among military leaders, the building of forts, and the army’s efforts to memorialize the war and its victims. Woven into his narrative are the voices of those who witnessed such events as the burial of Custer, the laying of railroad track, or the sudden surround of a buffalo herd. Their personal testimonies lend both vibrancy and pathos to this story of irreversible change in Sioux Country.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806185724

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9780806185729

Powder River

Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War

By: Paul L. Hedren

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Powder River

Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War

By: Paul L. Hedren

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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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806156120

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9780806156125

Traveler's Guide to the Great Sioux War

The Battlefields, Forts, and Related Sites of America's Greatest Indian War

By: Paul L. Hedren

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Traveler's Guide to the Great Sioux War

The Battlefields, Forts, and Related Sites of America's Greatest Indian War

By: Paul L. Hedren

Waged over the glitter of Black Hills gold, the Sioux War of 1876-77 transformed the entire northern plains from Indian and buffalo country to the domain of miners, cattlemen, and other Euro-American settlers. Keyed to official highway maps, this richly illustrated guide leads the traveler to virtually every principal landmark associated with the war, from Fort Phil Kearny where the Sioux besieged soldiers sent to guard the Bozeman Trail in the 1860s to Fort Buford, the site of Sitting Bull's surrender in 1881.

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Montana Historical Society

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0917298381

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9780917298387

Indian-white Relations in the United States

A Bibliography of Works Published 1975-1980

By: Francis Paul Prucha

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Indian-white Relations in the United States

A Bibliography of Works Published 1975-1980

By: Francis Paul Prucha

A tool for scholars working in the field of Indian studies. This title covers the topic of Indian-white relations with breadth and depth.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803287054

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9780803287051

Powder River

Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War

By: Paul L. Hedren

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Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806156139

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After Custer

Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country

By: Paul L. Hedren

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Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country

By: Paul L. Hedren

Between 1876 and 1877, the U.S. Army battled Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians in a series of vicious conflicts known today as the Great Sioux War. After the defeat of Custer at the Little Big Horn in June 1876, the army responded to its stunning loss by pouring fresh troops and resources into the war effort. In the end, the U.S. Army prevailed, but at a significant cost. In this unique contribution to American western history, Paul L. Hedren examines the war's effects on the culture, environment, and geography of the northern Great Plains, their Native inhabitants, and the Anglo-American invaders. As Hedren explains, U.S. military control of the northern plains following the Great Sioux War permitted the Northern Pacific Railroad to extend westward from the Missouri River. The new transcontinental line brought hide hunters who targeted the great northern buffalo herds and ultimately destroyed them. A de-buffaloed prairie lured cattlemen, who in turn spawned their own culture. Through forced surrender of their lands and lifeways, Lakotas and Northern Cheyennes now experienced even more stress and calamity than they had endured during the war itself. The victors, meanwhile, faced a different set of challenges, among them providing security for the railroad crews, hide hunters, and cattlemen. Hedren is the first scholar to examine the events of 1876-77 and their aftermath as a whole, taking into account relationships among military leaders, the building of forts, and the army's efforts to memorialize the war and its victims. Woven into his narrative are the voices of those who witnessed such events as the burial of Custer, the laying of railroad track, or the sudden surround of a buffalo herd. Their personal testimonies lend both vibrancy and pathos to this story of irreversible change in Sioux Country.

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Rosebud, June 17, 1876

Prelude to the Little Big Horn

By: Paul L. Hedren

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Prelude to the Little Big Horn

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0806163712

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9780806163710

The Time of My Life

By: Paul C. Hedberg,Randall Anderson

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The Time of My Life

By: Paul C. Hedberg,Randall Anderson

Biography of Paul C. Hedberg

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0985769750

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Good Day!

The Paul Harvey Story

By: Paul Batura

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Good Day!

The Paul Harvey Story

By: Paul Batura

Good Day! , the critically-acclaimed biography about the legendary Paul Harvey, is now in paperback! In this heartwarming book, author Paul J. Batura tells the all-American story of one of the best-known radio voices in history. From his humble beginnings to his unparalleled career of more than 50 years with ABC radio, Paul Harvey narrated America's story day by day, through wars and peace, through the threat of communism and the crumbling of old colonial powers, through consumer booms and eventual busts.

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Simon and Schuster

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1596982063

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9781596982062

The Random Book Of... Paul

By: Paul Scott Reaney,Dan Tester,Jonathan Pugh

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The Random Book Of... Paul

By: Paul Scott Reaney,Dan Tester,Jonathan Pugh

The Random Book of … Paul features facts, figures, stats, and trivia on legions of record breakers, record losers, actors, singers, sportsmen, historical figures, the famous and infamous, felons, inventors, rulers, heartthrobs, politicians, and scientists called Paul. Which Paul has battled Hodgkin's disease, was on the first private flight into suborbital space, and is worth over $22 billion? Which Paul is in the Penzance South ward, has been raided by the Spanish twice, and worships a former bus driver? Which Paul was a butterfly expert, predicted that life expectancy in the USA would be 42 by 1990, and that England would not exist by the year 2000? Which Paul was thirty-three feet tall, broke windows when he clapped, and was carried by five storks at birth? Which Paul picked up an 18-stone man with his mouth and ripped out five front teeth?

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1907158073

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The Letters of Paul as Rituals of Worship

By: John Paul Heil

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The Letters of Paul as Rituals of Worship

By: John Paul Heil

This book focuses on worship in the letters of Paul in an effort to shed some light upon this key theme and bring the various dimensions of its significance into the foreground of Pauline studies.

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James Clarke Company

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0227680073

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9780227680070

Paul Harvey's the Rest of the Story

By: Paul Harvey,Paul Aurandt

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Paul Harvey's the Rest of the Story

By: Paul Harvey,Paul Aurandt

Eighty-one real-life revelations behind some of history's greatest mysteries.

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0553259628

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Book's by Paul L. Hedren

Fort Laramie and the Great Sioux War

Fort Laramie and the Great Sioux War

Rosebud, June 17, 1876

Rosebud, June 17, 1876

We Trailed the Sioux

We Trailed the Sioux

After Custer

After Custer

Powder River

Powder River

Traveler's Guide to the Great Sioux War

Traveler's Guide to the Great Sioux War

Indian-white Relations in the United States

Indian-white Relations in the United States

Powder River

Powder River

After Custer

After Custer

Rosebud, June 17, 1876

Rosebud, June 17, 1876

The Time of My Life

The Time of My Life

Good Day!

Good Day!

The Random Book Of... Paul

The Random Book Of... Paul

The Letters of Paul as Rituals of Worship

The Letters of Paul as Rituals of Worship

Paul Harvey's the Rest of the Story

Paul Harvey's the Rest of the Story

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