Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 1854 - 1856 (Campaigns and Commanders, 6)
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press; University Of Oklahoma Press
Published: November 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780806135908
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Indigenous peoples; United States - 19th Century; History: World; Government relations; Wars; History; History - U.S.; Sources; USA; Military - United States; Native American; United States - Antebellum Era; Dakota Indians; Blue Water Creek, Battle of, N; Blue Water Creek, Battle of, Neb., 1855; Personal narratives
First sentence: Captain Oscar F. Winship began his long, improbable trip to Fort Laramie on the North Platte River by taking a steamboat up the Mississippi.