Download or read book Custer s Gatling Guns written by Donald F. Myers and published by CCB Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before has a historically accurate novel telling of the day-to-day journey to the Little Big Horn featuring interesting characters been written, including the Gatling Gun Battery commander and his men. Custer takes his three Gatling Guns with him instead of leaving them at the Yellowstone River. The author, a retired Marine, came up with a plausible solution of how the heavy machine guns could have moved with the 7th Cavalry without slowing it down through rough terrain. The book has a "what if" flavor from beginning to the dramatic ending that any history buff will enjoy. A rip-roaring tale of the 1870's. About the Author: Donald F. Myers was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. In 1952 at age seventeen he enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps. He retired from the Corps on 30 April 1973. Myers is Indiana's most decorated living Marine veteran. A recipient of two Silver Star medals for conspicuous gallantry, two Bronze Star medals for heroic achievement, five Purple Heart medals for combat wounds, Navy/Marine Corps Commendation medal for heroic achievement, Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with palm, and Vietnam Medal of Military Merit are among his 32 awards. The U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employed Myers after he was medically retired from the Corps. In 1990, he retired from the VA as a senior counselor. Myers also spent over 20 years with the Indiana Guard Reserve retiring from that military organization as a full colonel. He has authored six books. A father of two sons and three daughters Myers resides with his wife Dorothy in Franklin Township, a suburb on the southeast side of Indianapolis.
Download or read book The Last Stand written by Jennifer Silate and published by Rosen Classroom. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1 Copy
Download or read book Troopers with Custer Expanded Annotated written by E.A. Brininstool and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on 1952-01-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still one of the best Custer books, E.A. Brininstool's classic brings together his lifetime of work on the Little Bighorn disaster and the Indian Wars. A newspaperman and cowboy poet born just six years before Custer's last battle, Brininstool met, interviewed, and corresponded with many Little Bighorn survivors. Here is his final work on the subject, published a few years before his death in 1957. Even if you've read lots of Custer material, you'll find information that you haven't read before in this volume. Every history of the American West provides us with another view of the movement that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Download or read book The Gatling Gun written by Peter Smithurst and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique chapter in the history of firearms, the multibarrel, hand-cranked Gatling gun was one of the first practical rapid-fire weapons ever to be used in battle. It changed warfare by introducing the capability to project deadly, high-intensity fire on the battlefield, and portended the devastation that automatic weapons would wreak in World War I. During its 50-year career, it saw widespread service with US, British, and other forces on a host of battlefields through conflicts in Zululand and the American West, to the Spanish-American War. Although it saw widespread use in the hands of industrialized nations against various groups of indigenous native warriors, it was famously left behind by Custer at the battle of the Little Bighorn, where some argue it could have made all the difference. Featuring full-colour artwork plus contemporary and close-up photographs, this engaging study investigates the origins, development, combat use, and lasting influence of the formidable Gatling gun.
Download or read book Campaigns of General Custer in the North west and the Final Surrender of Sitting Bull written by Judson Elliott Walker and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guns at the Little Bighorn written by and published by Andrew Mowbray Incorporated, Publishers. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Armstrong Custer written by Fred Dustin and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Custer Battle Guns written by John Sanderson Du Mont and published by . This book was released on 1974-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typewritten book draft with handwritten corrections. The book is about the firearms used in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The item was subitted to the Old Army Press for publication.
Download or read book Troopers with Custer written by E. A. Brininstool and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The stories contained herein are all of actual happenings and actual participants; here are no fictitious names, no colored circumstances. They are part of the real history of the West, and for that reason I am not ashamed to place this volume in the hands of any interested boy or girl, youth or elderly person, who may desire to know the truth about one of the leading Indian battles, and other important frontier happenings pertaining thereto, and the men who played leading parts therein. Every character mentioned in each chapter was a living, breathing person, and every incident related in this book can be vouched for and verified.” From Troopers with Custer. Although everyone in Custer’s immediate command was killed during the fighting at the Battle of Little Big Horn on June 25-26, 1876, others who participated in the battle survived. Troopers with Custer tells their stories, often in their own words.
Download or read book The Custer Adventure as Told by Its Participants written by Richard Upton and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typewritten book draft with handwritten corrections. Upton compiled primary sources to tell the story of the Little Bighorn campaign of 1876. The item was submitted to the Old Army Press for publication.
Download or read book Firearms in the Custer Battle written by John E. Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Custer s Last Battle written by Edward Settle Godfrey and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Fought with Custer written by Charles Windolph and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Few Remain written by Harry Turtledove and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the master of alternate history comes an epic of the second Civil War. It was an epoch of glory and success, of disaster and despair. . . . 1881: A generation after the South won the Civil War, America writhed once more in the bloody throes of battle. Furious over the annexation of key Mexican territory, the United States declared total war against the Confederate States of America in 1881. But this was a new kind of war, fought on a lawless frontier where the blue and gray battled not only each other but the Apache, the outlaw, the French, and the English. As Confederate General Stonewall Jackson again demonstrated his military expertise, the North struggled to find a leader who could prove his equal. In the Second War Between the States, the times, the stakes, and the battle lines had changed--and so would history. . .
Download or read book Archaeology History and Custer s Last Battle written by Richard A. Fox and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the afternoon of June 25, 1867, an overwhelming force of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians quickly mounted a savage onslaught against General George Armstrong Custer’s battalion, driving the doomed troopers of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry to a small hill overlooking the Little Bighorn River, where Custer and his men bravely erected their heroic last stand. So goes the myth of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, a myth perpetuated and reinforced for over 100 years. In truth, however, "Custer’s Last Stand" was neither the last of the fighting nor a stand. Using innovative and standard archaeological techniques, combined with historical documents and Indian eyewitness accounts, Richard Allan Fox, Jr. vividly replays this battle in astonishing detail. Through bullets, spent cartridges, and other material data, Fox identifies combat positions and tracks soldiers and Indians across the Battlefield. Guided by the history beneath our feet, and listening to the previously ignored Indian testimonies, Fox reveals scenes of panic and collapse and, ultimately, a story of the Custer battle quite different from the fatalistic versions of history. According to the author, the five companies of the Seventh Cavalry entered the fray in good order, following planned strategies and displaying tactical stability. It was the sudden disintegration of this cohesion that caused the troopers’ defeat. The end came quickly, unexpectedly, and largely amid terror and disarray. Archaeological evidences show that there was no determined fighting and little firearm resistance. The last soldiers to be killed had rushed from Custer Hill.
Download or read book 1882 Custer in Chains written by Robert Conroy and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following his unlikely but decisive (and immensely popular) 1876 victory over Sitting Bull and the Sioux at the Little Big Horn, George Armstrong Custer is propelled into the White House in 1880. Two years later, he finds himself bored and seeks new worlds to conquer. He and his wife Libbie fixate on Spains decaying empire as his source for immortality. What President Custer doesnt quite comprehend is that the U.S. military isnt up to such a venture. When a group of Americans on a ship headed for Cuba is massacred, war becomes inevitable¾and unless calmer, patriotic citizens and soldiers can find a way to avoid debacle, this war may be America's last stand! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Download or read book I Fought with Custer written by Charles Windolph and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1987-06-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergeant Charles Windolph was the last white survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn when he described it nearly seventy years later. A six-year veteran of the Seventh Cavalry, Windolph fought in Benteen?s troop on that fatal Sunday and recalls in vivid detail the battle that wiped out Custer?s command. Equally vivid is the evidence marshaled by Frazier and Robert Hunt on events leading up to the battle and on the investigation that followed.
