02225cam a2200361 i 4500 804021422 TxAuBib 20230516120000.0 230427t20232022||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9781432893002 hardcover alk. paper 1432893009 hardcover alk. paper TxAuBib rda Murphy, Robert Lee. Bozeman paymaster [large print] : a tale of the Fetterman Massacre / Robert Lee Murphy. Large print ed. ©2022. Farmington Hills, MI : Thorndike Press/Gale, 2023. 669 p. (large print) : maps ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Reminiscent of the Taliban prevailing in Afghanistan, Bozeman Paymaster is the story of how in the nation's drive to advance Manifest Destiny it blundered into one of its most distressing reverses. Fighting to defend their favorite buffalo hunting grounds following the Civil War, Lakota Chief Red Cloud's coalition of Sioux, Northern Cheyennes, and Arapahos drove the military forces out of the Powder River country of modern-day Wyoming. On a bone-chilling day in December 1866, Captain William Fetterman led eighty men into the army's worst defeat at the hands of the Indians until Custer's Last Stand a decade later. Despite the turmoil of virtually constant Indian attacks at Fort Phil Kearny, a youthful paymaster clerk and a beautiful young schoolteacher fall in love. Their future is torn asunder when in the aftermath of the Fetterman Massacre the United States abandons the forts protecting the Bozeman Trail, closing the shortest route used by immigrants to reach Montana's goldfields. Red Cloud's War was the only war the American Indians won fighting the U.S. Army"--Provided by the publisher. 20230516. Native Americans. Indians History. Indians. Indians. Fiction. Manifest Destiny. Large Type Books. Westerns. Mignard, Phyllis. BTCLS