Murphy, Robert Lee <br/><br/>
Bozeman paymaster   a tale of the fetterman massacre  
Robert Lee Murphy 
 - Large print edition. 
 - Waterville, Maine   Thorndike Press  2023 
 - 669 pages (large print)   maps ;  22 cm 
<br/><br/> "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" -- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1432893009 9781432893002 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Red Cloud 1822-1909 --Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fetterman Fight--Wyoming--1866--Fiction.<br/>Red Cloud's War--1866-1867--Fiction.<br/>Large type books.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Wyoming--History--Fiction.<br/>Bozeman Trail--Fiction.
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<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>Mur   38