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Ab-sa-ra-ka, land of massacre
Margaret Irvin Carrington

J.B. Lippincott, 1878

1879. Being the Experience of an Officer's Wife on the Plains With an Outline of Indian Operations and Conferences from 1865 to 1878. The intent of this text is to give the world historical facts, many of which might go otherwise unnoticed, and thus help the reader to appreciate the vicissitudes of frontier life. Partial Contents: Absaraka, Home of the Crows; Absaraka Described; The Natural History and Climate of the Absaraka; Organization of ...

Absaraka : Home of the Crows

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Margaret Irvin Carrington

University of Nebraska Press, 1983

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.

Ab-sa-ra-ka, land of massacre;: Being the experience of an officer's wife on the plains
Margaret Irvin Carrington

J.B. Lippincott, 1879

AB-SA-RA-KA is Margaret Carrington?s first-person account of westward expansion alongside her husband, Col. Henry B. Carrington. In 1866 Col. Carrington was ordered to build and defend forts along the Bozeman Trail. Margaret?s detailed journals give us an eyewitness description of the fateful incidents that finally erupted in the Fetterman Massacre of 1866. The Black Hills gold rush combined with military infighting and arrogance served as the ...