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Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight : Indian Views by John H. Monnett (2017, Hardcover)

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Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press. Author: Monnett, John H. (Editor). Binding: Hardcover, Hardcover.

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN-10
0806155825
ISBN-13
9780806155821
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28038429229

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
248 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight : Indian Views
Publication Year
2017
Subject
United States / 19th Century, Military / United States, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Native American
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, History
Author
John H. Monnett
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
18.3 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2016-033853
Reviews
"John Monnett has assembled an astute selection of Lakota and Northern Cheyenne reminiscences of the Fetterman Fight in 1866, when tribesmen lured a contingent of nearly eighty soldiers to their deaths along the Bozeman Trail in north-central Wyoming. With new and incisive commentary, Monnett provides a welcome and moving chronicle." --Jerome A. Greene, author of American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
978.004/97353
Synopsis
The Fetterman Fight ranks among the most crushing defeats suffered by the U.S. Army in the nineteenth-century West. On December 21, 1866--during Red Cloud's War (1866-1868)--a well-organized force of 1,500 to 2,000 Oglala Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors annihilated a detachment of seventy-nine infantry and cavalry soldiers--among them Captain William Judd Fetterman--and two civilian contractors. With no survivors on the U.S. side, the only eyewitness accounts of the battle came from Lakota and Cheyenne participants. In Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight , award-winning historian John H. Monnett presents these Native views, drawn from previously published sources as well as newly discovered interviews with Oglala and Cheyenne warriors and leaders. Supplemented with archaeological evidence, these narratives flesh out historical understanding of Red Cloud's War. Climate change in the mid-nineteenth century made the resource-rich Powder River Country in today's Wyoming increasingly important to Plains Indians. At the same time, the discovery of gold in Montana encouraged prospectors to pass through the Powder River region on their way north, and so the U.S. Army began to construct new forts along the Bozeman Trail. In the resulting conflict, the Lakotas and Cheyennes defended their hunting ranges and trade routes. Traditional histories have laid the blame for Fetterman's 1866 defeat and death on his incompetent leadership--and thus implied that the Indian alliance succeeded only because of Fetterman's personal failings. Monnett's sources paint another picture. Narratives like those of Miniconjou Lakota warrior White Bull suggest that Fetterman's actions were not seen as rash or reprehensible until after the fact. Nor did his men flee the field in panic. Rather, they fought bravely to the end. The Indians, for their part, used their knowledge of the terrain to carefully plan and execute an ambush, ensuring them victory. Critical to understanding the nuances of Plains Indian strategy and tactics, the firsthand narratives in Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight reveal the true nature of this Native victory against regular army forces., Critical to understanding the nuances of Plains Indian strategy and tactics, the firsthand narratives in Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight reveal the true nature of this Native victory against regular army forces.
LC Classification Number
E83.866.E94 2017