George Armstrong Custer's Winners of the West on the Battle of the Little Big Horn and Related Matters (Battle of the Little Big Horn Series, Volume 7) - Couverture rigide

Mary Ann Thompson

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0912783443 ISBN 13 : 9780912783444

Editeur : Upton & Sons, 2007

Synopsis

Battle of the Little Big Horn Series, Volume Seven. George Armstrong Custer's Winners of the West on the Battle of the Little Big Horn and Related Matters with an illustrated dust-jacket in color, The Custer Fight, by William Herbert Dunton. On the endpapers: (front) Declaration of Survivor's Pension - Indian Wars; (back) Assorted Fort Custer Band Concert Programs. Appendix, Index, Frontispiece, 26 illustrations, introduction.

George Washington Webb , a common man who fought for the rights of the common soldier, the pension problems of the Indian war veterans and widows. He organized the veterans into a national association, began publishing Winners of the West, a newspaper dedicated to those who fought, and he continually lobbied for the granting of pensions and increasing those pensions granted.

These stories of the regular soldier sometimes do not have perfect grammar or spelling. The editor has left them alone, giving us a truer picture of the men who wrote them. This volume includes an abstraction of Custer related articles, including Curley the Scout; Comanche - thought to be only survivor or Battle of Little Big Horn; General Godfrey; General Terry; Theodore Goldin; Indian losses; The Battlefield - 1924; History of Indian Wars; Black Kettle; Campaign against Kiowas, Comanches and Cheyennes in Kansas, Colorado, Texas, Indian Territory and New Mexico, 1874-75; the Custer Tragedy; Old Trooers' Stories; Rescue of two white girls; When a band played a cospicuous part in and Indian battle; Survivor of Black Kettle Fight; Forty Thousand People attend Custer Celebration - 1926 (50 Anniversary of Battle); Survivor of 19th Kansas Cavalry - Campaigning with Custer; Custer's Men were Horribly Mutilated; Chief Standing Bear Lecturing in San Francisco in 1928; Battle of the Washita, November 27, 1868; Dedication of Reno Marker; One Year after the Battle; Indian Fighters Recall Little Big Horn Defeat; Her Soldier Husband Died with Custer; Custer Battle Water Party; The Custer Battle Heroes; The Custers: Their Army Life and Experiences; Passing of Mrs. Elizabeth Bacon Custer; The W. M. Camp Records of Indian War History; The Battle of the Little Big Horn A Tactical Study; An Incident of the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873, the wounding of Lt. Charles Braden, Seventh United States Cavalry- his miraculous survival; Buffalo Bill's Own Story of the Killing of Yellow Hand from The Making of Buffalo Bill. And, much more.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Upton & Sons
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0912783443
• ISBN 13: 9780912783444
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible