| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 462 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Note |
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Macmillan, ©1973. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 414-434) and index. |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Maps; Errata; Introduction; One: Return to the Frontier; Two: The Postwar Army: Command, Staff, and Line; Three: The Problem of Doctrine; Four: The Army, Congress, and the People; Five: Weapons, Uniforms, and Equipment; Six: Army Life on the Border; Seven: Fort Phil Kearny, 1866; Eight: Hancock's War, 1867; Nine: The Peace Commission of 1867; Ten: Operations on the Southern Plains, 1868-69; Eleven: Beyond the Plains, 1866-70; Twelve: Grant's Peace Policy, 1869-74; Thirteen: The Red River War, 1874-75; Fourteen: Sitting Bull, 1870-76. |
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Fifteen: The Conquest of the Sioux, 1876-81Sixteen: Nez Percé Bid for Freedom, 1877; Seventeen: Bannock, Paiute, Sheepeater, and Ute, 1878-79; Eighteen: Mexican Border Conflicts, 1870-81; Nineteen: Geronimo, 1881-86; Twenty: Ghost Dance, 1890-91; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover. |
| Summary |
In Frontier Regulars Robert M. Utley combines scholarship and drama to produce an impressive history of the final, massive drive by the Regular Army to subdue and control the American Indians and open the West during the twenty-five years following the Civil War. Here are incisive accounts of the campaign directed by Major General William Tecumseh Sherman-from the first skirmishes with the Sioux over the Bozeman Trail defenses in 1866 to the final defeat and subjugation of the Northern Plains Indians in 1890. Utley's brilliant descriptions of military maneuvers and flaming battl. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States. Army -- History.
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United States. Army. |
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History. |
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United States. Army -- Military life -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
États-Unis. Army -- Histoire. |
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Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895.
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Indians of North America -- Wars. |
| Chronological Term |
1866-1895 |
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West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890.
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Armed Forces -- Military life. |
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West United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Utley, Robert M., 1929- Frontier regulars. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1984], ©1973 0803295510 9780803295513 (DLC) 84007484 (OCoLC)10751766 |
| ISBN |
9780803295681 (electronic book) |
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0803295685 (electronic book) |
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0803295510 (paperback) |
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9780803295513 (paperback) |
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