Absaraka: Home of the Crows

by Margaret Irvin Carrington and Carrington, Margaret Irvin Carrington, Margaret Irvin

Book Overview

On July 17, 1866, two soldiers and six wagoners were killed by Sioux Indians. In the next two weeks, fourteen more men died in Sioux attacks. The attacks continued through the summer and fall. On December 21, disaster struck. Recklessly pursuing Indians across a wooded ridge, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel William Fetterman and his company fell into an ambush. It was the worst military blunder of the Indian Wars before the Battle of the Little Big Horn...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803263155
• ISBN13: 9780803263154
• Release Date: November 1983
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful portrayal of frontier life in the 1860s.

A wonderful book on the American frontier of the 1860s. Margaret Carrington accompanies her husband, US Army COL Henry Carrington, to Indian territory on the Powder River in Montana to set up forts along the newly opened Bozeman Trail. The book portrays the undaunted spirit of the pioneers and the struggle with the Indians. An excellent read.