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100 1 $aVictor, Frances Fuller,$d1826-1902.
245 10 $aOur centennial Indian War and the life of General Custer /$cby Frances Fuller Victor ; introduction by Jerome A. Greene.
260 $aNorman :$bUniversity of Oklahoma Press,$cc2011.
300 $axix, 195 p. :$bill., maps ;$c20 cm.
490 1 $aWestern frontier library ;$vv. 68
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
500 $aOriginally published as a concluding element of Victor's Eleven years in the Rocky Mountains and a life on the frontier, 1877.
505 0 $aIntroduction, by Jerome A. Greene -- Our Centennial Indian War and the life of General Custer -- The Sioux tribes and causes of the war -- Battles of the Powder and Rosebud -- Terry's expedition and opening of the campaign -- Gibbon's march up the Big Horn River -- Custer's last battle -- Reno's battles on the Little Big Horn -- Kill Eagle's narrative -- An attack in the rear -- The midsummer campaign -- Autumn on the Yellowstone -- Terry and Crook at the Sioux agencies -- The winter of 1876-77 -- A biographical sketch of Major-General Custer -- The Sioux treaty of 1876 and Indian orators.
520 $a"Published even before the Great Sioux War had ended [this book] was the first contemporary and comprehensive account of the successive army operations in 1876 and early 1877 ... Victor drew information from a wide range of sources -- including personal letters, war correspondents' dispatches, and government documents -- to explain and contextualize elements of the lengthy, disjointed struggle between the army and the Lakota-Cheyenne coalition. Beyond her treatment of the war's campaigns and battles, Victor offered one of the earliest biographical assessments of Custer"--Jacket.
650 0 $aDakota Indians$xWars, 1876.
650 0 $aLittle Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876.
600 10 $aCuster, George A.$q(George Armstrong),$d1839-1876.
700 1 $aVictor, Frances Fuller,$d1826-1902.$tEleven years in the Rocky mountains and life on the frontier.
830 0 $aWestern frontier library ;$v68.
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