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UNINA9910778225803321 |
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Autore |
Smith Shannon D. <1958-> |
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Titolo |
Give me eighty men [[electronic resource] ] : women and the myth of the Fetterman Fight / / Shannon D. Smith |
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Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-24136-9 |
9786611241360 |
0-8032-1781-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (262 p.) |
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Collana |
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Soggetti |
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Fetterman Fight, Wyo., 1866 |
Army spouses - Wyoming |
Fort Phil Kearny (Wyo.) History, Military |
Fort Phil Kearny (Wyo.) History Sources |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Prelude to disaster -- To the frontier -- Ladies of the regiment -- Officers and gentlemen -- Hard lessons learned -- The Battle of the Hundred-In-The-Hands -- Blazing a paper trail -- Women's work -- The rest of the story. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Give Me Eighty Men, Shannon D. Smith reexamines the works of the two Mrs. Carringtons in the context of contemporary evidence. No longer seen as an arrogant firebrand, Fetterman emerges as an outstanding officer who respected the Plains Indians' superiority in numbers, weaponry, and battle skills. Give Me Eighty Men both challenges standard interpretations of this American myth and shows the powerful influence of female writers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
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