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Yellowstone Command: Colonel Nelson A. Miles and the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877

Yellowstone Command: Colonel Nelson A. Miles and the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877

Current price: $27.44
Publication Date: March 1st, 2006
Publisher:
University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN:
9780806137551
Pages:
352
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Description

Shortly after Custer's defeat in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Colonel Nelson A. Miles and his Fifth Infantry launched several significant campaigns to destroy the Lakota-Northern Cheyenne coalition in the Yellowstone River basin. Miles's expeditions involved relentless pursuit and attack throughout the winter months, culminating in the Lame Deer Fight of May 1877, the last major engagement of the Great Sioux War.

Yellowstone Command is the first detailed account of the harrowing 1876-1877 campaigns. Drawing from Indian testimonies and many previously untapped sources, Jerome A. Greene reconstructs the ambitious battles of Colonel Miles and his foot soldiers. This paperback edition of Yellowstone Command features a new preface by the author.