Download or read book Lost Forts of Casper written by Johanna Wickman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three army outposts built before and during the Civil War protected critical routes along the western trails at the North Platte River near what later became Casper. All had been abandoned by 1867, and their dramatic stories are mostly forgotten. The Post at Platte Bridge was a vital outpost on Albert Sidney Johnston's Utah War supply route. Camp Dodge and Platte Bridge Station, also called Fort Caspar, guarded telegraph lines from Native American sabotage. Violent winds, horrendous blizzards and scorching summers made life miserable. Tension reached a fever pitch at the Battle of Platte Bridge when Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho attacked a cavalry detachment led by Caspar Collins. Today, a reconstructed Fort Caspar stands as a vigilant reminder of the struggles at those lonely frontier stations. Local historian Johanna Wickman chronicles military efforts to keep the peace, wage war and merely survive.
Download or read book The Forgotten Senator written by Johanna Wickman and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the life of a man who helped shape the history of Kansas and the United States, through firsthand accounts of life on the Kansas frontier, Civil War combat and behind-the-scenes politics of the 19th Century as a United States Senator. Whether it was running guns to make Kansas a free state, founding the town of Emporia, Kansas as a teenager, or serving with distinction along the Kansas-Missouri border and the territory of present-day Wyoming as a Union cavalry officer, Preston B. Plumb put himself in the very crossroads of American history over and over. In the style of narrative history, you will learn about this incredible man's exciting life, a life lost to history for over a century, as told in his own words, as well as through interviews and stories of the people who knew him. "Preston B. Plumb is unquestionably the most important United States Senator who you have never heard of. This superb biography will, for the first time in over a century, document a life fully and well lived, which directly influenced the growth and development of the western states of our republic." --Douglas R. Cubbison, Curator, U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania
Download or read book Quarterly Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Sixth Report of the United States Geographic Board 1890 to 1932 written by United States Geographic Board and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the United States Geographic Board written by United States Geographic Board and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sixth Report of the United States Geographic Board written by United States Geographic Board and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Fort Ellis written by Thomas C. Rust PhD and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1867 in the Gallatin Valley of Montana, Fort Ellis played a key role in the development of the Montana frontier. From post commanders attacking the town to restoring order when riotous mobs got out of control, explore the ambivalent, albeit contentious, relationship from 1867 to 1886 between the civilians and soldiers in whimsical but dramatic fashion. Competing visions of economic and military conditions on the frontier led to a complex relationship that has all the drama of a Hollywood western. Join MSU-Billings history professor Dr. Thomas C. Rust as he examines the fort's impact on the social and economic development of early Bozeman, the problems of military command and the dynamics of the soldier-civilian interaction on Montana's frontier.
Download or read book Old Forts of the Northwest written by Herbert M. Hart and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the wide Missouri lay the prairie—“the biggest clearing on the Almighty’s footstool.” And every few hundred miles, holding to the rivers and wooded bottoms, were the outposts of the white civilization—the military forts of the U.S. Army. Father, mother and comforter to the settlers, trading points for the trappers and buffalo hunters, rallying points for the scouts. Awaiting the reader of this sentimental journey into the days of “Boots and Saddles,” are the graphic stories of battles against Indians and boredom. A military man, author Hart has the feel of these men who did the fighting and their places of conflict and refuge. He recounts the Bloody Bozeman outrage, Red Cloud’s War of 1866-68, and the pre-Civil War fights that seasoned lieutenants for the stars of Union and Confederate generals. It is a thrilling experience to read of the forts that opened the West for the stages, river boats and wagon trains...of those that protected the white man from the Indians and others that protected Indians from the whites...of those “hog and hominy” forts that gave solace to settlers who waited for the Indian attacks that never came...of the places called “Hog Ranches” that provided soldiers with entertainment lacking at Army posts...and of those forts George Armstrong Custer called home. With all this there are portraits, in both word and photograph, of the many famous generals who rode this frontier of history: Sherman, Sheridan, Crook, Custer, Harney, Sully, Connor, Mackenzie, Howard, Miles, Terry, Carrington, de Trobriand, Gibbon and Canby.
Download or read book The Forts and Fortifications of Europe 1815 1945 The Neutral States written by J.E. Kaufmann and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Napoleonic Wars the borders of Europe were redrawn and relative peace endured across the region, but the volatile politics of the late nineteenth century generated an atmosphere of fear and distrust, and it gave rise to a new era of fortress building. In the neutral states situated between France and Germany - The Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland - the need for extensive fixed defences was particularly urgent, and this is the subject of this highly illustrated new study. The strategic thinking that gave rise to these defensive schemes is described in detail, as is the planning, design and construction of the lines themselves. Their operational history in wartime, in particular during the Second World War, is a key element of this expert account.
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Download or read book Report of the United States Geographic Board written by United States Geographic Board and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Frontier Forts Under Fire written by Paul Williams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fort William Henry and Fort Phil Kearny were both military outposts of the North American frontier. Both lasted but briefly—about two years from construction until their walls went up in flames. And both saw what were termed “massacres” by Indians outside their walls. This book reexamines the traumatic events at both forts. The Fort William Henry Massacre was condemned by both the British and the French as barbaric. Yet these European powers proved capable of similar crimes. The Fort Phil Kearny defeat, traditionally attributed to Captain William Fetterman’s having disobeyed orders, has been scrutinized in recent years. Did the women present at that time write a distorted version of events? It would appear that his second-in-command, the rash Lieutenant George Grummond, led the charge over Lodge Trail Ridge. Or did he?
Download or read book Decisions of the United States Geographic Board written by United States Board on Geographical Names and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sixth Report of the United States Geographic Board 1890 to 1932 written by United States Geographic Board and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
