First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket. 333pp. With 46 b&w photos and illustrations in the text, and 6 maps. Pioneering research into the winter campaign against the Sioux and Cheyenne peoples in the winter of 1876-7, including five battles. Fine book in Very Good jacket, which is clean and intact but quite heavily rubbed to surfaces and edges. Photos available.

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Title

Yellowstone Command. Colonel Nelson A. Miles and the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877.

Publisher

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press

Publication Date

1991

Language

English

ISBN 10

0803221428

ISBN 13

9780803221420

Binding

Fine

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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The continuing popular fascination with Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn has obscured the role played by Colonel Nelson A. Miles in the Great Sioux War. "Yellowstone Command" provides a detailed account of the campaign of Colonel Miles in the winter of 1876-77 as he moved against the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the aftermath of the Custer debacle. Drawing on previously unpublished materials and providing troop-movement maps, the author fills in a little-studied chapter in US military history. During the campaign, Miles's 5th Infantry engaged in five major battles with the Indians, as well as an almost constant series of skirmishes intended to restore American military power and morale. The text describes Miles' revitalization of army strategy and reconstructs battles - at Wolf Mountain and at Clear, Spring, Cedar, Bark, Ash and Muddy Creeks - that were decisive in closing the conflict in 1877.

About the Author

Jerome A. Greene is a historian with the National Park Service. He lives in Arvada, Colorado. His publications include Slim Buttes, 1876: An Episode of the Great Sioux War.

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