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Give Me Eighty Men

Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight

Autor: Shannon Smith

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: University of Nebraska Press

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele

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"With eighty men I could ride through the entire Sioux nation." The story of the Fetterman Fight, ne...

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Autor

Shannon Smith

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2010

Stránek

264

EAN

9780803234253

ISBN

0803234252

Enbook ID

04923067

Vydavatel

University of Nebraska Press

Hmotnost

342

Rozměry

137 x 217 x 14

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"With eighty men I could ride through the entire Sioux nation." The story of the Fetterman Fight, near Fort Phil Kearney in present-day Wyoming in 1866, is based entirely on this infamous declaration attributed to Capt. William J. Fetterman. Historical accounts cite this statement in support of the premise that bravado and contempt for the fort's commander, Col. Henry B. Carrington, compelled Fetterman to disobey direct orders from Carrington and lead his men into an ambush by an alliance of Plains Indians in 1866. In the aftermath of the incident, Carrington's superiors positioned him as solely accountable for the "massacre" by suppressing exonerating evidence. In the face of this betrayal, Carrington's first and second wives came to their husband's defense by publishing books presenting his version of the deadly encounter. Although several of Fetterman's soldiers and fellow officers disagreed with the women's accounts, their chivalrous deference to women's moral authority during this age of Victorian sensibilities enabled Carrington's wives to present their story without challenge. In this fascinating book, Shannon D. Smith re-examines the works of the two Mrs. Carringtons in the context of contemporary evidence. 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.

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