Brief description:
”Set in 1866, with the Civil War finally at an end, General Henry Carrington is assigned to lead troops and their families into the Wyoming Territory in an effort to open new areas for settlers to homestead. At the same time, the Indians are becoming more and more agitated by what they see as the ever-encroaching white man. In an effort to drive them out permanently, Red Cloud, a Lakota Sioux war leader, succeeds in uniting the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Crow into a massive strike force to do just that.
Chiaventone very effectively gives his readers both points of view and a much deeper understanding of what eventually culminated into the only war the Western Indians ever won against the encroaching settlers. Tragically, General Carrington spent most of the rest of his life defending his reputation. Although the Army’s official investigation fully exonerated him, the findings were filed away in obscurity by the government and the military to avoid having to admit their own culpability in what became known as the “Fetterman Massacre.”
[Source: HistoricalNovelsReview Aug 2002]
Chiaventone very effectively gives his readers both points of view and a much deeper understanding of what eventually culminated into the only war the Western Indians ever won against the encroaching settlers. Tragically, General Carrington spent most of the rest of his life defending his reputation. Although the Army’s official investigation fully exonerated him, the findings were filed away in obscurity by the government and the military to avoid having to admit their own culpability in what became known as the “Fetterman Massacre.”
[Source: HistoricalNovelsReview Aug 2002]
Publication
Forge Books (2002), Edition: 1st, 400 pages
Original publication date
2002 (1st edition)
Collection
Physical description
400 p.; 9.64 inches