Author:
Drury, Bob.
Edition Statement:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
ImprintNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Descriptionxii, 414 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Note:Pt. I. The prairie -- First contact -- Guns and badlands -- The Black Hills and beyond -- "Red Cloud Comes!" -- Counting coup -- "Print the Legend" -- Pt. II. The invasion -- Old Gabe -- The glory road -- Pretty Owl and Pine Leaf -- A blood-tinged season -- A long stranger -- Samuel Colt's invention -- A brief respite -- The Dakotas rise -- Pt. III. The resistance -- Strong hearts -- An army in shambles -- Blood on the ice -- The great escape -- Bloody bridge station -- The hunt for Red Cloud -- Burn the bodies : Eat the horses -- Pt. IV. The war -- War is peace -- Big bellies and shirt wearers -- Colonel Carrington's circus -- Here be monsters -- The perfect fort -- "Mercifully Kill All the Wounded" -- Roughing it -- A thin blue line -- Fire in the belly -- High plains drifters -- Pt. V. The massacre -- Fetterman -- Dress rehearsal -- Soldiers in both hands -- The half-man's oven -- Broken arrows -- "Like Hogs Brought to Market" -- Fear and mourning.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (page 369-397) and index.
