Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, Home of the Crows: Being the Experience of an Officer's Wife On the Plains ... With Outlines of the Natural Features and Resources of the ... Gathered From Observation and Other Rel

Carrington, Margaret Irvin

History

Franklin Classics

Ab-sa-ra-ka, land of massacre,: Being the experience of an officer's wife on the Plains

Americas

Kraus Reprint Co

<p>On July 17, 1866, two soldiers and six 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 William Fetterman and his company fell into an ambush. It was the worst military blunder of the Indian Wars before the Battle of the Little Big Horn ten years later. Margaret Irvin 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, in present-day Wyoming, Montana, and the western Dakotas. As the wife of the commander of Fort Phil Kearny, Colonel Henry B. Carrington, she experienced the sequence of events and the heightening of tensions that led to that bloody December day. She could not have known that her journal would come to such a shocking climax, with her husband's career at stake.</p>

Absaraka: Home of the Crows

University Of Nebraska Press

Bison Books

Ab-sa-ra-ka, home of the Crows (Classics of the Old West)

<p>This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.</p>

Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, Home of the Crows (CLASSICS OF THE OLD WEST)

Children's Books

Time-Life Education

A classic of the early history of Wyoming This well known account of army life on the western frontier, by the wife of Colonel Henry B. Carrington the post-commander of Fort Phil Kearney during 'Red Cloud's War' of 1866-68, appears in this Leonaur edition in its revised form, having been substantially enhanced by Colonel Carrington himself after his wife's death in 1870. This additional material provides much additional and valuable historical information that will interest any student of the events of the period. Colonel Carrington was a central personality in the events described in Margaret Carrington's book because, with her two children, she accompanied her husband as he built the fort and commanded the soldiers who would defend this dangerous outpost in Wyoming. She shared his experiences of the ensuing conflict and, as the fort was all but under siege by Plains Indian tribes, of the well known 'Wagon Box Fight' and more significantly the disaster that was the infamous 'Fetterman Massacre.' Margaret Carrington wrote her journals at the suggestion of General Sherman who had the foresight to consider that doing so was a useful occupation for all officers' wives. Thus we may thank Sherman for not only ensuring posterity was provided with the minute detail of life on a frontier army post often absent from first hand narratives, but also-if inadvertently-that some of the most notable events in the history of the U. S Army's struggle with the Sioux and their allies were chronicled. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

AB-Sa-Ra-Ka or Wyoming Opened: The Classic Account of A U. S. Army Officer's Wife on the Great Plains During the Indian War

Leonaur Ltd

AB-Sa-Ra-Ka or Wyoming Opened: The Classic Account of A U. S. Army Officer's Wife on the Great Plains During the Indian Wars

Ab-sa-ra-ka, Home of the Crows

Legare Street Press

Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, Home of the Crows: Being the Experience of an Officer'S Wife On the Plains ... with Outlines of the Natural Features and Resources of the ... Gathered from Observation and Other Rel

Nabu Press

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