Lieutenant Samuel Churchill Robertson and his Crow Indian Troop at Fort Custer have been largely overshadowed by Lieutenant Edward Casey's Cheyenne Scouts. This book traces the origins of the United States Army's experiment of using Indians as regular enlisted men filling out Troop L in most of the regiments. The history of Fort Custer's Indian contingent and its commander is followed from its initial conception in 1890 to its demise in 1895. 
Based on an article, originally called "Our Indian Contingent" published in HARPER'S WEEKLY in 1892, Robertson tells first-hand, of this challenging episode. His struggles to get the unit started and keep it going are recounted in detail. 
Originally done in collaboration with frontier photographer Orlando Scott Goff, whose photographs were replaced in HARPER'S WEEKLY by Frederic Remington artwork, this book contains both the recently discovered Goff photos and the Remington drawings. 
Interesting appendices and additional writings of this attempt to recruit Indians as regular soldiers round out this important contribution to the military history of the West.

The Indian As a Soldier at Fort Custer, Montana: Lieutenant Samuel G. Robertson's First Cavalry Crow Indian Contingent 1890-1895 (Montana and the West Series, 1)

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J.H. Sharp Among the Crow Indians 1902-1910: Personal Memories of His Life & Friendships on the Crow Reservation in Montana (Montana and the West series)

J.H. Sharp Among the Crow Indians 1902-1910: Personal Memories of His Life & Friendships on the Crow Reservation in Montana

Riebeth, Carolyn Reynolds

Hardcover; Fine; Signed by Author; Dust Jacket - Like New; 225 pp., index, source notes, chronology, photographs, facsimile documents. A fine tight, unmarked copy in a fine bright unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR and warmly inscribed to Major General Hoyt S. (Sandy) Vandenberg, Jr. USAF retired. Laid in is a copy of the author's obituary, funeral cards, and a typed, signed letter written by him in 1988. Seldom does one see an account of the antics, goofs, miscalculations and misconduct, of officers serving in command of large bodies of troops. In this book the author uncovers what officers in the post-Civil War army failed or refused to provide in their official records. Interesting reading! EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION.

Custer's 7th Cav and the Campaign of 1873 (Montana and the West Series, 3)

Frost, Lawrence A.

The Custer Mystery (Montana and the West Series, 4)

Dubois, Charles G.

Benteen's Scout-To-The-Left, the Route from the Divide to the MorassJune 25, 1876 (Custer Trails Series, Vol 1)

Darling, Roger

Vol. One in ECHOES OF THE LITTLE BIG HORN SERIES, KICK THE DEAD LION by Charles G. du Bois, is a Custer classic, it focuses on the performance of Custer, Benteen and Reno; Enlisted Men's Petition analyzed. Pictorial dj of Custer, endpaper maps, app's, biblio, footnotes, index.

Kick the Dead Lion: A Casebook of the Custer Battle (Echoes of the Little Big Horn Series, Vol 1)

New. El Segundo 1988. Photos, packet of maps, includes Dustin Bibliography. THE CUSTER TRAGEDY by Fred Dustin is a required reading for any Custer Battle scholar. Includes reprint of rare pamphlet: "Echoes from the Little Big Horn Fight," which was written after Dustin had access to the Reno Court of Inquiry transcript.

The Custer Tragedy: Events Leading Up to and Following the Little Big Horn Campaign of 1876, Also Including, Echoes from the Little Big Horn Fight

Dustin, Fred

Illus dj, 206p, 10 b&amp;w photos, frontis, 8 pen &amp; ink line drawings. 7 two-color maps, app's, notes, biblio, index. El Segundo 1996 edition. Prelude to the Little Big Horn, "THE BATTLE OF THE ROSEBUD," is an in-depth study by the Superintendent of the Little Bighorn National Monument of a little-known but important battle that took place a few days before the Battle of the Little Big Horn. VOLUME 5 of MONTANA AND THE WEST SERIES. Cover art/line drawings by Montana artist Hank Maynard. BRAND NEW PRINTING WITH CORRECTIONS!! Talented Neil Mangum has hit the jack-pot with this comprehensive account of the ROSEBUD BATTLE.

Battle of the Rosebud: Prelude to the Little Big Horn (Montana and the West Series, 5)

Mangum, Neil C.

347p, intro, bibli, illus dj, illust, index, El Segundo 1989. VENGEANCE! THE SAGA OF POOR TOM COVER is VOLUME 6 IN MONTANA AND THE WEST SERIES. The first book to give its undivided attention to one of the most venturesome and daring men of the American West. Tom Cover's career included being one of the first to discover gold in Virginia City, MT, present at the killing of John Bozeman by the Blackfeet, instrumental in cleaning up the corruption in Virginia City, Montana and the hanging of Henry Plummer, Boone Helm and others. He was involved in business in and around Ft Smith, MT before he moved on to Calif where he founded the city of Riverside. When he disappeared in the Mojave desert while searching for Pegleg Smith's lost gold discovery. His earlier association with Boone Helm is cleverly developed by the author into the motive for Cover's death. A mystery solved by a master writer of western history.

Vengeance: The Saga of Poor Tom Cover (Montana and the West V 6)

Thrapp, Dan L.

There Are No Indians Left but Me: Sitting Bull Story

Diessner, Don

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