Great Sioux War Orders of Battle: How the United States Waged War on the Northern Plains, 1876-1877

by Paul L. Hedren

Book Overview

A unique resource with a new perspective on the U.S. Army in the Great Sioux War Lasting nearly two years, the Great Sioux War pitted almost one-third of the U.S. Army against Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyennes. By the time it ended, this grueling war had played out on twenty-seven different battlefields scattered across five states, resulted in hundreds of casualties, cost millions of dollars, and transformed the landscape and the lives of survivors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806143223
• ISBN13: 9780806143224
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"