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 |
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Koha item type |
State Library Large Print |