The Battle of Wyoming - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Battle of Wyoming write by Mark Dziak. This book was released on 2018-07-13. The Battle of Wyoming available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Battle of Wyoming: For Liberty and Life explores the infamous 1778 Revolutionary War battle in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. The Battle of Wyoming (and the so-called Wyoming Massacre that followed) was a relatively small event, but its impact would help to dictate the fates of Britain, the American Indians, and the newborn United States. The Battle of Wyoming rebuilds this important conflict using factual narrative, quotations, illustrations, biographies, and even a guide to battle sites in modern-day Wyoming Valley.
Wyoming Range War
Wyoming Range War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wyoming Range War write by John W. Davis. This book was released on 2012-09-05. Wyoming Range War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West’s most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land and census records, newspapers, and trial transcripts, Davis has produced an all-new interpretation. He looks at the conflict from the perspective of Johnson County residents—those whose home territory was invaded and many of whom the invaders targeted for murder—and finds that, contrary to the received explanation, these people were not thieves and rustlers but legitimate citizens. The broad outlines of the conflict are familiar: some of Wyoming’s biggest cattlemen, under the guise of eliminating livestock rustling on the open range, hire two-dozen Texas cowboys and, with range detectives and prominent members of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, “invade” north-central Wyoming to clean out rustlers and other undesirables. While the invaders kill two suspected rustlers, citizens mobilize and eventually turn the tables, surrounding the intruders at a ranch where they intend to capture them by force. An appeal for help convinces President Benjamin Harrison to call out the army from nearby Fort McKinley, and after an all-night ride the soldiers arrive just in time to stave off the invaders’ annihilation. Though taken prisoner, they later avoid prosecution. The cattle barons’ powers of persuasion in justifying their deeds have colored accounts of the war for more than a century. Wyoming Range War tells a compelling story that redraws the lines between heroes and villains.
The Wagon Box Fight
The Wagon Box Fight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wagon Box Fight write by Jerry Keenan. This book was released on 2007-10-09. The Wagon Box Fight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most dramatic battles of the Indian Wars is described in a revised edition with new material including official army reports and recent archaeological evidence.
Sesquicentennial of the Battle of Wyoming
Sesquicentennial of the Battle of Wyoming - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sesquicentennial of the Battle of Wyoming write by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Library. This book was released on 1928. Sesquicentennial of the Battle of Wyoming available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Life of George Bent
Life of George Bent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life of George Bent write by George E. Hyde. This book was released on 2015-01-13. Life of George Bent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. George Bent, the son of William Bent, one of the founders of Bent's Fort on the Arkansas near present La Junta, Colorado, and Owl Woman, a Cheyenne, began exchanging letters in 1905 with George E. Hyde of Omaha concerning life at the fort, his experiences with his Cheyenne kinsmen, and the events which finally led to the military suppression of the Indians on the southern Great Plains. This correspondence, which continued to the eve of Bent's death in 1918, is the source of the narrative here published, the narrator being Bent himself. Almost ninety years have elapsed since the day in 1930 when Mr. Hyde found it impossible to market the finished manuscript of the Bent life down to 1866. (The Depression had set in some months before.) He accordingly sold that portion of the manuscript to the Denver Public Library, retaining his working copy, which carries down to 1875. The account therefore embraces the most stirring period, not only of Bent's own life, but of life on the Plains and into the Rockies. It has never before been published. It is not often that an eyewitness of great events in the West tells his own story. But Bent's narrative, aside from the extent of its chronology (1826 to 1875), has very special significance as an inside view of Cheyenne life and action after the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864, which cost so many of the lives of Bent's friends and relatives. It is hardly probable that we shall achieve a more authentic view of what happened, as the Cheyennes, Arapahos, and Sioux saw it.
