Search Results: Western Americana from Focloir

Americana 112rra Rose, Robert R. Advocates and Adversaries. The Early Life and Times of Robert R. Rose. Chicago: R.R. Donnelley and Sons, 1977, lxiii, 328 pages, illus, map, index. Top edge gilt, spine very, very minor rolling to spine, good, clean copy. $4.00 Box A 112

Americana 038 (The Plains Indians and other tribes/Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876). Cheyenne memories of the Custer fight: a source book. (Series: Frontier military series; 18). Compiled and edited by Richard G. Hardorff. Spokane: Arthur H. Clark, 1995, 189p, bib, index, illus, maps. Fine in blue cloth with gilt titles, as befits the Seventh Cavalry colors. $23.50
Hardorff is a specialist on the battle and the author of some interesting books on the engagement. Sadly, with some notable exceptions, the white man seldom sought out the views of Native Americans on this or any other event.

Civil War 111frf Frazer, Robert W. Forts of The West: Military Forts and Presidios and Posts commonly called Forts West of the Mississippi River. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966 (1965), xxxvii, 246 pages, illus, bib, index. Damp spotting to paper edges, else good in fair dust jacket. $10.00 Box A 111

Americana splc Starrs, Paul F. Let the Cowboy Ride: Cattle Ranching in the American West. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, 356 pages, illus, photos, maps, bib, index,. Very good to fine copy in like dust jacket. $15.00 Box 2022

Americana 101 (Plains Indians/Connor, Patrick Edward, 1820-1891). Wagner, David E., 1939- Patrick Connor's war: the 1865 Powder River Indian Expedition. (Series: Frontier military series; 29). Norman, Oklahoma: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2010, 296p, bib, index, illus. Fine copy with collector's bookplate (in Gaelic) on front lining paper.. $17.50
The author draws on journals, letters, and reports—especially the James H. Kidd Papers, a copy of Connor's expedition report previously believed burned, and the newly discovered C. M. Lee diary. Also included is a detailed account of the civilian road-building expedition of James Sawyers, whose fate became intertwined with the Powder River expedition.
The Powder River Expedition of 1865 was a large and far-flung punitive military operation of the United States Army against the Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians in Montana Territory and Dakota Territory, land that had been confirmed as Indian territory in the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie.
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