Before Custer: Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872 9780870624315

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Автор: Lubetkin M. John
Название: Before Custer: Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872
ISBN: 9780870624315
Издательство: Arthur H. Clark Company
Классификация:

История Америк

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Краеведение

ISBN-10: 0870624318
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 328
Вес: 0.73 кг.
Дата издания: 20.03.2015
Язык: English
Размер: 242 x 176 x 31
Поставляется из: США
Описание:
Hoping to complete its transcontinental route, the Northern Pacific Railroad set out in 1872 to survey the Yellowstone Valley. An emissary from the Lakota chief Sitting Bull had warned the two surveying expeditions (eastern and western) not to enter the valley. But no one--certainly no Northern Pacific investor--was worried about taking the Indian threat seriously.
As it turned out, the Indians were deadly serious--and successful. The firsthand accounts compiled here by M. John Lubetkin document the surveys three-month struggle with the Lakotas and other Plains Indian people. Before Custer: Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872 tells the story of a military and public relations disaster. Much to the surprised dismay of U.S. Army strategists and railroad executives, the Indians repeatedly harrassed army forces of nearly a thousand men. One surveying party turned back, without meeting its objectives, after a determined attack led by Sitting Bull. The other also retreated, and one ambush it encountered resulted in the death of a member of President Ulysses S. Grants family and the narrow escape of the railroads lead engineer.
The previously unpublished documents that Lubetkin has collected and annotated also tell a parallel story: that of the dire consequences of the railroads problems for the country. When the Northern Pacifics expansion plans were thwarted, the nations largest private banking house failed, leading to the Panic of 1873. The fighting brought Sitting Bull to national attention and led directly to George Armstrong Custers transfer to the Department of Dakota.
The vivid eyewitness accounts artfully assembled here reveal the failures of alcoholic army commanders and show personal encounters between soldiers and Indians, among them the formidable Lakota warrior known as Gall. Before Custer tells of a little-known but crucial episode in the history of westward expansion and Native peoples efforts to halt that expansion.

Before Custer: Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872, Lubetkin M. John