Give me eighty men :: women and the myth of the Fetterman Fight /

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 s...

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Main Author: Smith, Shannon D., 1958-
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008.
Series:Women in the West.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxii, 236 pages :)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-227) and index.
ISBN:9780803217812
0803217811
1281241369
9781281241368
9786611241360
6611241361

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