photo above: Indian tipis on the grounds of Fort Phil Kearny, in what is now Johnson County, Wyoming (Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)
Recommended Reading for War on the Northern Plains
The Heart of Everything There Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend,
by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed: The Struggle for the Powder River Country in 1866 and the Making of the Fetterman Myth, by John H. Monnett
Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight: Indian Views, John H. Monnett, editor
Morning Star Dawn: The Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876
(Campaigns and Commanders Series, Volume 2), Jerome A. Greene
The Wagon Box Fight: An Episode of Red Cloud's War, by Jerry Keenan
My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearney Massacre: With an Account of the Celebration of "Wyoming Opened," by Francis C. Carrington
The Powder River Expedition Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge,
Wayne R. Kime, editor
Patrick Connor's War: The 1865 Powder River Indian Expedition (Frontier Military Series)
by David E. Wagner
by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed: The Struggle for the Powder River Country in 1866 and the Making of the Fetterman Myth, by John H. Monnett
Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight: Indian Views, John H. Monnett, editor
Morning Star Dawn: The Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876
(Campaigns and Commanders Series, Volume 2), Jerome A. Greene
The Wagon Box Fight: An Episode of Red Cloud's War, by Jerry Keenan
My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearney Massacre: With an Account of the Celebration of "Wyoming Opened," by Francis C. Carrington
The Powder River Expedition Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge,
Wayne R. Kime, editor
Patrick Connor's War: The 1865 Powder River Indian Expedition (Frontier Military Series)
by David E. Wagner
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To peruse our Recommended Reading list for the Battle of the Rosebud,
and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, click HERE.
and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, click HERE.