MacKenzie's Last Fight with the Cheyennes (Expanded, Annotated) - Couverture souple

Bourke, John G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1519043783 ISBN 13 : 9781519043788

Editeur : Independently published, 2016

Synopsis

Step back into the harsh winter of 1876, when the smoke of Custer’s defeat at the Little Bighorn still hung over the Great Plains. In this gripping eyewitness account, soldier-scholar John G. Bourke chronicles Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie’s brutal campaign against the Northern Cheyenne under the renowned warrior Dull Knife—a battle that marked one of the decisive moments of the Great Sioux War.

Bourke was not a detached observer. He fought beside the men he wrote about, yet his rare combination of soldier’s insight and scholar’s curiosity gives his account a power few historians can match. Beyond the clash of sabers and the frozen ground of the Powder River country, Bourke saw the tragedy of cultures in collision. His writing reveals not only how the U.S. Army hunted the last resisting Plains tribes, but also how those tribes fought to preserve their way of life against impossible odds.

This rediscovered work stands as both a gripping piece of frontier literature and an invaluable primary source for anyone studying the Indian Wars, the frontier army, or the fate of the Plains tribes after Custer. Bourke’s voice—honest, observant, sometimes wry—captures the raw human reality behind one of the final campaigns of the American West.

Perfect for readers who admire authentic western history, Native American resistance, and firsthand military storytelling, this is John G. Bourke at his most vivid and enduring.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

With the tension and excitement of a novelist, and the humor of a Mark Twain, soldier-scholar John G. Bourke wrote about one of the most important battles of the Great Sioux War, of which he was a participant. John Bourke’s contribution to the history of the so-called Indian Wars cannot be overestimated. It is not as a soldier that he is best remembered, but as an anthropologist, ethnologist, folklorist, scientist, and writer—amazing for a man who was in uniform from the ages of 16 to 50. Here he detailed Ranald MacKenzie's final fight with the Cheyenne under Dull Knife in the bitter cold of winter, 1876. These were some of the same warriors who had months earlier sent General George Armstrong Custer and five companies of 7th Cavalry troopers to an early grave at the Little Bighorn. Written as only Bourke could have done, this short account is a forgotten American classic.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1519043783
• ISBN 13: 9781519043788
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 57
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