Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay
Subtitle: The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780806111131
Subjects: United States. Army -- Military life; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895
Description: The enlisted men in the United States Army during the Indian Wars (1866-91) need no longer be mere shadows behind their historically well-documented commanding officers. As member of the regular army, these men formed an important segment of our usually slighted national military continuum and, through their labors, combats, and endurance, created the framework of law and order within which settlement and development become possible. We should know more about the common soldier in our military past, and here he is. Whether the soldier is speaking for himself or through the author in his role as commentator-historian, this is the first documented account of the mass personality of the rank and file during the Indian Wars, and is only incidentally a history of those campaigns.
Notes: Includes bibliography.