The Fetterman Massacre

by Dee Brown
Category: "U.S. History - Military"
Pages:229
Year of Publication:1962
Date Added:06/30/2019
Date Read:06/30/2019
Notes:First published as Fort Phil Kearny, an American Saga

A history of Fort Phil Kearny in north-central Wyoming, built in 1866 to protect immigrants on the Bozeman Trail. A force of 81 men from the fort went out on December 21 of that year to fight off a band of Indians attacking a wood-gathering party. The attack was a decoy, and the 81 men were soon surrounded and wiped out by more then 1,500 Indians. The fort was abandoned and burned a year later.
My Rating: 7

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I read the book a week after visiting the fort and the battle site. The story is told quickly and clearly and paints a vivid picture of the hardship and tension of the soldiers at that isolated post.

Reviewed by Roger on 2019-06-30 16:49:41

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