Ab-sa-ra-ka, land of massacre / / by Margaret Carrington

• Autore: Carrington Margaret Irvin <1831-1870.>
• Pubblicazione: Scituate, Mass., : Digital Scanning, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (397 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Frontier and pioneer life - Wyoming; Indians of North America - Wars - 1866-1895; Indians of North America - Wyoming; Crow Indians; Fetterman Fight, Wyo., 1866
• Soggetto geografico: Wyoming History
• Note generali: Originally published: Ab-sa-ra-ka, land of massacre: being the experience of an officer's wife on the plains. With an outline of Indian operations and conferences from 1865 to 1878. Philadelphia [etc.]: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1879.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- FRONTIS -- DEDICATION. -- PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION. -- CONTENTS. -- CHAPTER I. -- ABSARAKA, HOME OF THE CROWS. -- CHAPTER II. -- ABSARAKA DESCRIBED. -- CHAPTER III. -- THE NATURAL HISTORY AND CLIMATE OF ABSARAKA. -- CHAPTER IV. -- ORGANIZATION OF THE EXPEDITION TO ABSARAKA. -- CHAPTER V. -- FROM FORT KEARNEY TO CROSSING OF UNION PACIFIC RAIL-ROAD -- INCIDENTS OF THE PLATTE RIVER TRAVEL -- REUNION OF THE OFFICERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH INFANTRY -- CROSSING THE RIDICULOUS PLATTE -- CHAPTER VI. -- REMINISCENCES OF RANCHING, AND OLD TIMES ON THE ROUTE FROM LEAVENWORTH TO SEDGEWICK. -- CHAPTER VII. -- UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD TO LARAMIE -- COURT-HOUSE ROCK -- CHIMNEY ROCK -- FORTIFICATION ROCK -- SCOTT'S BLUFFS -- WONDERFUL FISHING -- VISIT OF STANDING ELK -- CHAPTER VIII. -- FORT LARAMIE COUNCIL OF 1866 -- ITS RESULTS FORESHADOWED -- THE ABORIGINES IN THE MART OF TRADE -- HOW THE INDIANS DID AND DID NOT -- CHAPTER IX. -- LARAMIE TO RENO -- CAMP PHISTERER CANON -- LARAMIE PEAK -- WILD FLORA -- PUMPKIN BUTTES -- CHAPTER X. -- FORT RENO -- INDIAN RAID -- FORT LARAMIE TREATY TESTED -- FOURTH OF JULY IN ABSARAKA -- ORGANIZATION OF MOUNTAIN DISTRICT -- ONWARD MOVEMENT -- MORE RATTLESNAKES -- MERCURY ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN DEGREES ABOVE ZERO -- WHAT IT DID -- CHAPTER XI. -- RECONNOISSANCES -- INDIAN MESSENGERS -- WARNINGS -- LOCATION OF FORT PHILIP KEARNEY -- CONDUCT OF THE TROOPS, AND ITS CAUSE -- CHAPTER XII. -- ARRIVAL OF INDIANS -- THE CHEYENNES IN COUNCIL -- BLACK HORSE THE RABBIT THAT JUMPS, RED SLEEVE, DULL KNIFE, AND OTHERS HAVE MUCH TALK AND "HEAP OF SMOKE." -- CHAPTER XIII. -- MASSACRE OF LOUIS GAZZOUS' PARTY -- INDIAN RAID AND GREAT LOSS OF MULES -- THE CHEYENNES AGAIN -- FORTY HOSTILE DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE "PEACEABLE TRIBES" -- THE LARAMIE TREATY INCIDENTALLY TESTED -- MASSACRE OF LIEUTENANT DANIELS -- A FIGHTING PARSON -- CHAPTER XIV. ; CONDUCT OF THE CROW INDIANS -- WHAT BRIDGER AND BECK-WITH SAY -- CHAPTER XV. -- VISIT OF INSPECTOR-GENERAL HAZEN -- REINFORCEMENTS ON THE WAY -- MOUNTED INFANTRY COMPARED WITH SIOUX LIGHT CAVALRY -- UNITED STATES MAILS -- CORRAL SYSTEM -- TIMBER AND LUMBER SUPPLIED TO ORDER -- CHAPTER XVI. -- FORT PHILIP KEARNEY AND SURROUNDINGS -- A PICNIC -- ASCENT OF THE MOUNTAINS -- LAKE SMEDT -- FINE SCENERY -- PLAN OF THE FORT -- CHAPTER XVII. -- TWO HOLIDAYS -- OCTOBER INSPECTION AND REVIEW -- FIRST GARRISON FLAG HOISTED IN ABSARAKA -- INCIDENTS OF THE DAY -- INDIAN RESPONSE TO A NATIONAL SALUTE -- LOOKING-GLASSES IN ABUNDANCE -- EVENING LEVEE -- CHAPTER XVIII. -- A DAY OF INCIDENTS -- HOSTILE SIOUX AND FRIENDLY CHEYENNES -- ARROW ESCAPE OF THE LATTER -- OUR PICKET MIMICKED -- MORE MASSACRES -- CROQUET INTRODUCED INTO ABSARAKA -- CHAPTER XIX. -- NIGHT SCENES -- CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL VISITORS -- AURORA -- LUNAR RAINBOW -- METEORITES -- INDIANS ALL IN THEIR WAR-PAINT -- CHAPTER XX. -- DOMESTIC, SOCIAL, AND RELIGIOUS LIFE, WITH THE EPISODES THEREIN OCCURRING -- CHAPTER XXI. -- INDIAN WARFARE -- THINGS A WOMAN CAN LEARN WHEN SHE HAS SEEN THEM TRIED -- CHAPTER XXII. -- INDIAN ARMS, HABITS, AND CUSTOMS -- THE ARROW BEATS THE REVOLVER -- CHAPTER XXIII. -- MASSACRE OF LIEUTENANT BINGHAM -- ACCOUNTS GIVEN BY OFFICERS -- EXTRACTS FROM JOURNAL -- CHAPTER XXIV. -- FETTERMAN 'S MASSACRE -- ITS LESSONS. -- CHAPTER XXV. -- THE FUNERAL, AND BURIAL OF FOURSCORE AND ONE VICTIMS OF THE MASSACRE -- COLD AND SAD HOLIDAYS -- EXPEDITIONS ABANDONED -- REINFORCEMENTS OF AUGUST YET BEHIND -- CHAPTER XXVI. -- COMEDY OF ERRORS -- ENTERPRISE OF THE PRESS -- TRANSACTIONS IN ABSARAKA MYSTERIOUSLY KNOWN TO THE PUBLIC BEFORE THEY HAD INFORMATION OF THE SAME -- CHAPTER XXVII. -- NEW YEAR'S CHANGES -- MARCH TO FORT RENO -- FORTY DEGREES BELOW ZERO -- HOW IT FELT AND WHAT IT DID. ; CHAPTER XXVIII. -- FORT RENO TO FORT CASPAR -- THENCE TO THE UNITED STATES -- COURTESIES OF THE ROUTE -- VISIT OF DIGNITARIES, MILITARY, CIVIL, AND INDIAN, AT M'PHERSON -- MORE CHANGES -- CHAPTER XXIX. -- IN MEMORIAM -- CHAPTER XXX. -- OMAHA TO VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA. -- CHAPTER XXXI. -- INDIAN AFFAIRS ON THE PLAINS -- INCIDENTS OF 1865 -7. -- CHAPTER XXXII. -- INDIAN AFFAIRS ON THE PLAINS -- INCIDENTS OF 1867 -- INDIAN CONFERENCES. -- CHAPTER XXXIII. -- INDIAN AFFAIRS ON THE PLAINS-INCIDENTS, 1867 -1873. -- CHAPTER XXXIV. -- INDIAN AFFAIRS ON THE PLAINS -- INCIDENTS FROM 1874 TO 1877. -- CHAPTER XXXV. -- INDIAN AFFAIRS ON THE PLAINS -- INCIDENTS OF 1877 -- THE NEZ PERCES WAR. -- CHAPTER XXXVI. -- HONOR TO WHOM HONOR. -- APPENDIX -- APPENDIX I.-Special Senate documents on Phil Kearney massacre -- APPENDIX II.-Officers killed on the Plains,1865-78 -- APPENDIX III.-Troops on the Plains, and disposition of the Army, May, 1878 -- ILLUSTRATIONS. -- CROW CHIEFS -- COURT-HOUSE ROCK -- CHIMNEY ROCK -- HE-HA-KA-A-NA-ZIN, STANDING ELK (DACOTAH SIOUX) -- CAMP PHISTERER CANON -- EAST VIEW OF THE NORTH PLATTE -- LARAMIE PEAK, FROM THE NORTH -- BATTLE DECORATION OF BUFFALO ROBE -- PLAN OF FORT PHIL KEARNEY -- TEPEE, OR TEPAH (INDIAN LODGE) -- SURROUNDINGS OF FORT PHIL KEARNEY -- LA-HIC-TA-PA-LA-SHA, PIPE CHIEF (PAWNEE) -- PE-TA-LA-SHA-RA, PAWNEE CHIEF (CHOWEE BAND) -- CIN-TE-GI-LE-SKA, SPOTTED TAIL AND HIS SQUAW (BRULÈ SIOUX) -- RED CLOUD AND MR. BLACKMORE, OF LONDON.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ab-sa-ra-ka, land of massacre
• ISBN: 1-58218-381-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910829046703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II