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Indians, Infants and Infantry: Andrew and Elizabeth Burt on the Frontier

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Indians, Infants and Infantry: Andrew and Elizabeth Burt on the Frontier - Mattes, Merrill J
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During the years of the Indian uprisings in the West, Elizabeth Burt followed her husband, Major Andrew Burt, from one lonely outpost to another, with their three small children, a crate of chickens, and a cow in tow. Indians, Infants, and Infantry , based largely on a 1912 manuscript Mrs. Burt derived from now-lost letters and diaries, provides an intimate glimpse of life at Forts Kearney, Bridger, Laramie, and C. F. Smith from the 1860s through the 1890s. Historical events do not dwarf but only heighten the half-century ...

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Indians, Infants and Infantry: Andrew and Elizabeth Burt on the Frontier 1988, Bison Books, Lincoln, NE

ISBN-13: 9780803281578

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