By Margaret Irvin Carrington
ISBN: 0803263155
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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On July 17, 1866, two soldiers' wagoners were killed by Sioux Indians. In the next two weeks, fourteen more men died in Sioux attacks. The attacks continued through the summer and fall. On December 21, disaster struck. Recklessly pursuing Indians across a wooded ridge, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Williams Fetterman and his company fell into an ambush. It was the worst military blunder of the Indians Wars before the Battle of the Little Big Horn ten years later.
Carrington, like many officers' wives, kept a journal of her stay in the outposts of the West. She recorded her impressions of the scenery and the inhabitants of Absaraka-present-day Wyoming, Montana, and the western Dakotas. Wife of the commander of Fort Phil Kearny, she also recorded events that led to the Fetterman massacre.
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