Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 355 EAN: 9780806133355 ISBN: 080613335X Label: University of Oklahoma Press Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 158 Publication Date: 2001-05 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Sales Rank: 1256416 Studio: University of Oklahoma Press
Product DescriptionSagebrush Soldier is an account of military life during the Indian Wars in the late nineteenth-century West. Private William Earl Smith describes daily camp life, battle scenes, and the behavior of famous men--Ranald Mackenzie and George Crook--in public and private poses. He covers the war from the enlisted man's viewpoint, as he worries about what he will eat, how he will keep warm in freezing conditions, and how he will keep calm when bullied by the sergeant major, of whom he says he would give 'five year of my life to [have] walked up to him and smacked him in the nose.' Sherry Smith assembles a balanced, comprehensive history by incorporating the testimony of officers, Indians scouts and allies, and their enemy, the Northern Cheyennes.
