Thrilling Days in Army Life describes one of the classic encounters between Indians and the frontier army. In the summer of 1868 George A. Forsyth led fifty sco

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In this book, the author relates the six-day siege in September that pitted his small force against 750 Cheyennes and Sioux. Because the battle occurred in a dr

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