Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Bozeman Paymaster (Record no. 103003)

020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781432893002
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number State Library Large Print
Item number 76
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number State Library Large Print
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Murphy, Robert Lee
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Bozeman Paymaster
Remainder of title A Tale of the Fetterman Massacre
Statement of responsibility, etc Robert Lee Murphy
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Thorndike Press Large Print
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2023
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 669 p
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "Fighting to defend their favorite buffalo hunting grounds following the Civil War, Lakota Chief Red Cloud's coalition of Sioux, Northern Cheyennes, and Arapahos drove the military forces out of the Powder River country of modern-day Wyoming. On a bone-chilling day in December 1866, Captain William Fetterman led eighty men into the army's worst defeat at the hands of the Indians until Custer's Last Stand a decade later. Despite the turmoil of virtually constant Indian attacks at Fort Phil Kearny, a youthful paymaster clerk and a beautiful young schoolteacher fall in love. Their future is torn asunder when in the aftermath of the Fetterman Massacre the United States abandons the forts protecting the Bozeman Trail, closing the shortest route used by immigrants to reach Montana's goldfields. Red Cloud's War was the only war the American Indians won fighting the U.S. Army"--
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Military Historical Fiction
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element War Fiction
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Westerns
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme
Koha item type State Library Large Print
Holdings
Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Permanent Location Current Location Full call number Barcode Date last seen
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