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The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Alice Kirk Grierson
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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Collects the letters of the wife of Civil War major general Benjamin H. Grierson, describing daily life and hardships at frontier posts like Fort Riley, Fort Co
The Colonel's Lady
Language: en
Pages: 416
Authors: Laura Frantz
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-01 - Publisher: Revell

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In 1779, when genteel Virginia spinster Roxanna Rowan arrives at the Kentucky fort commanded by Colonel Cassius McLinn, she finds that her officer father has di
Class and Race in the Frontier Army
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Kevin Adams
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-19 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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Historians have long assumed that ethnic and racial divisions in post–Civil War America were reflected in the U.S. Army, of whose enlistees 40 percent were fo
Army Wives on the American Frontier
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Anne Bruner Eales
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Big Earth Publishing

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"No one interested in the history of the American West or in women's history should miss this well-written, carefully researched, comprehensive treatment of a s
Frontier Crossroads
Language: en
Pages: 223
Authors: Robert Wooster
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-12-02 - Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

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The idea of the West conjures exciting images of tenacious men and women, huge expanses of unclaimed territory, and feelings of both adventure and lonesome isol