Book Description
Depicts the uniforms, insignia, decorations, horse equipment, and weaponry of cavalry regiments against the background of events in American military history
Author : Randy Steffen
Publisher : Horse Soldier
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 31,5 MB
Release : 1991-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806123929
Depicts the uniforms, insignia, decorations, horse equipment, and weaponry of cavalry regiments against the background of events in American military history
Author : Randy Steffen
Publisher :
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 1977
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Author : Randy Steffen
Publisher :
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Cavalry
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Author : Randy Steffen
Publisher :
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 1979
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ISBN : 9780806112831
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Publisher :
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Firearms
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Author : Charles M. Haecker
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,25 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Battlefields
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Author : Will Gorenfeld
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0806156554
Having banished eastern Native peoples to lands west of the Mississippi, President Andrew Jackson’s government by 1833 needed a new type of soldier to keep displaced Indians from returning home. And so the 1st Dragoons came into being. Will and John Gorenfeld tell their story—an epic of exploration, conquest, and diplomacy from the outposts of western history—in this book-length treatment of the force that became the U.S. Cavalry. The 1st Dragoons represented a new regiment of horsemen that drew on the combined skills and clashing visions of two types of leaders: old Indian killers and backwoodsmen such as loudmouth miner Henry Dodge; and straight-arrow battlefield veterans such as Stephen Watts Kearny, who had fought Redcoats in 1812 but now negotiated treaties with Indian tribes and enforced the new order of the West. Drawing on soldiers’ journals and other never-before-used sources, Kearny’s Dragoons Out West reconstructs this forgotten, often surprising moment in U.S. history. Under Kearny, the 1st Dragoons performed its mission through diplomacy and intimidation rather than violence, even protecting Indians from white settlers. Following the regiment up to the U.S.-Mexican War, when diplomacy gave way to open violence, this book introduces readers to future Civil War generals. Colorful characters appearing in these pages include Private Thomas Russell, a young attorney tricked by a horse thief into joining the army; James Hildreth, who authored two books on the 1st Dragoons; and English drill sergeant Long Ned Stanley, whose tenure in the 1st reveals much about American immigrants’ experience in 1833–48. The promises made in Kearny’s well-intentioned treaty making were ultimately broken. This detailed and in-depth look back at his legacy offers a glimpse of a lost world—and an intriguing turning point in the history of western expansion.
Author : Christopher D. Adams
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,56 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Archaeological surveying
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Author : Earl Arthur Shoemaker
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Fort Scott (Kan.)
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Author : Doug Hocking
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 17,92 MB
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1493041800
*Winner of the 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Nonfiction* In the 1840s and 50s, the Jicarilla Apache were the terror of the Santa Fe Trail and the Rio Arriba. They repeatedly clashed with the cavalry and raided wagon trains, and there was bad blood between the band and the Army after the Battle of San Pasqual, when they were on opposite sides during the Mexican American War. In 1854, as traffic was on the increase along the historic trade route, the Jicarilla soundly defeated the 1st United States Dragoons in the Battle of Cieneguilla. Cieneguilla was the worst defeat of the US Army in the West up to that time, and it was just one of the first major battles between the US Army and Apache forces during the Ute Wars. According to one version of events, the 60 dragoons, under the direction of a Lt. Davidson, had engaged in an unauthorized attack on theJicarilla while they were out on patrol. Others claimed that the Jicarilla either ambushed the Army or taunted them into attack. Kit Carson, who was agent for the Jicarilla, would defend Davidson’s actions—and after this fight, he served as a scout against the Jicarilla. Much like the Sioux defeat of Custer at Little Big Horn, the Jicarilla’s victory over the Army led to retribution and disaster. The Jicarilla were defeated and faded from memory before the Civil War. These are the events that brought them to ruin.