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Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay – The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars
This account of the enlisted men of the United States Regular Army on the frontier, from 1865 to the 1890’s is not a history of the Indian Wars (which, to be sure, shaped the experiences of these men) but a study of the rank and file who served through the Indian campaigns.
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Forty Miles A Day on Beans and Hay – The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars
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 members of the regular army, these men formed an important segment of our usually slighted national military continuum and created the framework of law and order within which settlement and development become possible.
ISBN: 978-0-8061-1113-1
382 Pages
Softback
5 1/2″ x 8″
University of Oklahoma Press, 1973