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Give me eighty men : women and the myth of the Fetterman Fight / Shannon D. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Shannon D., 1958-
- Series:
- Women in the West.
- Women in the West
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fetterman Fight, Wyo., 1866.
- Army spouses--Wyoming--Correspondence.
- Army spouses.
- Fort Phil Kearny (Wyo.)--History, Military.
- Fort Phil Kearny (Wyo.).
- Fort Phil Kearny (Wyo.)--History--Sources.
- United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 18th.
- United States.
- Carrington, Frances C. (Frances Courtney), 1845-1911.
- Carrington, Frances C.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-24136-9
- 9786611241360
- 0-8032-1781-1
- OCLC:
- 437200612
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