Of all the U.S. Army posts in the West, none witnessed more history than Fort Laramie, positioned where the northern Great Plains join the Rocky Mountains. From its beginnings as a trading post in 1834 to its abandonment by the army in 1890, it was involved in the buffalo hide trade, overland migrations, Indian wars and treaties, the Utah War, Confederate maneuvering, and the coming of the telegraph and first transcontinental railroad. Meticulously researched and gracefully told, this is a long-overdue military history of ...
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Of all the U.S. Army posts in the West, none witnessed more history than Fort Laramie, positioned where the northern Great Plains join the Rocky Mountains. From its beginnings as a trading post in 1834 to its abandonment by the army in 1890, it was involved in the buffalo hide trade, overland migrations, Indian wars and treaties, the Utah War, Confederate maneuvering, and the coming of the telegraph and first transcontinental railroad. Meticulously researched and gracefully told, this is a long-overdue military history of one of the American West's most venerable historic places.
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As New in As Fine jacket. Hardcover with dust jacket-full blue cloth over boards with gold lettering stamped on spine. Sewn binding. 456 pages, with illustrations, appendix, index, and bibliography. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Frontier Military Series; Vol. 26. CONDITION: Book AS NEW, binding square and tight, pages bright and unmarked; unread; DJ FINE, not clipped, very light shelf wear to edges, protected in a clear archival (mylar) cover. COLLECTIBLE: Inscribed and signed by author on verso of half-title page. CONTENT: "A superbly crafted narrative of this grand old post. McChristian's text brims with the times, people, and events that made Fort Laramie an epicenter of westward expansion on the Great Plains during the nineteenth century. This is American history at its best."-Jerome A. Greene.
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