Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 1854-1856

by R. Eli Paul

Book Overview

Volume 6 in Campaigns and Commanders Series In previous accounts, the U.S. Army's first clashes with the powerful Sioux tribe appear as a set of irrational events with a cast of improbable characters-a Mormon cow, a brash lieutenant, a drunken interpreter, an unfortunate Brul? chief, and an incorrigible army commander. R. Eli Paul shows instead that the events that precipitated General William Harney's attack on Chief Little Thunder's Brul? village...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806142758
• ISBN13: 9780806142753
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"