Circle of Fire


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The year 1865 was bloody on the Plains as various Indian tribes, including the Southern Cheyenne and the Southern Sioux, joined with their northern relatives to wage war on the white man. They sought revenge for the 1864 massacre at Sand Creek, when John Chivington and his Colorado volunteers nearly wiped out a village of Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho. The violence in eastern Colorado spread westward to Fort Laramie and Fort Caspar in southeastern and central Wyoming, and then moved north to the lands along the Wyoming-Montana border.




The Great Salt Lake Trail


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A history of this historic avenue of Westward emigration, from the first explorations through the Indian Wars. Over this route the Mormons made their lonely migration to the Great Salt Lake Valley. Also there were expeditions by Fremont, Stansbury, Lander. A final chapter describes the building of the transcontinental railroad.










History of Dakota Territory


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Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families


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My Story


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In this classic work of a 19th century United States Army Officer, Anson Mills gives an autobiographical look at his extraordinary life. Anson Mills (August 31, 1834 – November 5, 1924) was an inventor, entrepreneur, developer, pioneer, and brigadier general, and both named and created the first plans for the city of El Paso, Texas.




Frost Genealogy in Five Families


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A genealogy and a history of the Frost families whose ancestry came from Mass., Maine, and Maryland. Descendants and relatives lived in Texas, New Jersey California, Vermont, Michigan, Virginia, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and elsewhere.