With the Indian and the buffalo in Montana, 1925?

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With the Indian and the buffalo in Montana, 1925?

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Detailed handwritten account of his activities during the campaigns against the Cheyenne, Sioux, and Nez Perce tribes during the 1870s. His unit was the first on the scene of Custer's massacre on the Little Bighorn (1876), and he describes the battlefield in great depth, and also provides personal speculations on the specifics of the fight.

1 v. (67 leaves).

Harold B. Lee Library

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