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Author:   Douglas D. Scott ,  Peter Bleed ,  Amanda Renner
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Dimensions:   Width: 18.50cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781785703393

ISBN 10:   1785703390
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   21 December 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements   1. Introduction 2. Landscapes and Dynamics of the Platte Valley in 1864 and 1865 Forms and Features of the Platte Valley Landscape   The River Course   North Platte Valley Side Slopes   North Platte Bluffs   Plains  Traffic and Trail Patterns of the Platte Valley   Euro-American Trails   Native American Trails   Euro-American Civilian Facilities Relations between the United States Government and Platte Valley Native Communities The Sand Creek Massacre Indian Reactions to Sand Creek and the move to the North Platte Valley Army Reactions to Sand Creek 3. Conceptual Tools for the Consideration of Conflicted Landscapes Levels of War   The Strategic Level   The Operational Level   The Tactical Level Conflicted Landscapes as “Battlespace”   4. Levels of War and Battlespace in the North Platte Valley of 1865  Levels of War and Battlespace among the Cheyenne and allied tribes  Levels of War and Battlespace of the Civil War Frontier Army  Battlespace – Trails and Battlefields as Essential Elements   5. Conflict Begins – The Battle of Mud Springs  Mud Springs as Battlespace  Strategy and Tactics of the Mud Spring Operation   6. The Archaeology of the Mud Springs Battle  The Archaeological Assemblage  Firearms Artifact Distribution  The “Rifle Pit” Feature  Interpreting the Actions and Evidence of Mud Springs   7. The Road to Rush Creek  Cheyenne Movements away from the Camp on Rush Creek  The Army’s Pursuit  Discovery of the Rush Creek Camp   8. The Forces Collide at Rush Creek  Beginning of the Battle  Tactical Operations of Rush Creek Combat  Artillery at Rush Creek  Cavalry Action at Rush Creek   9. Archaeology of the Rush Creek Battle  Archaeological Expression of the Battlefield  Small Arms Evidence  Artillery Evidence  Rush Creek: A battlespace adjusted to surprise   10. Conclusions   Appendix: Transcriptions of Enlisted Men’s Accounts of the Fights   References   Index

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This book ... contains a most interesting and informative account of two relatively small and unfamiliar actions between the US Cavalry and the Cheyenne. * Miniature War Games *

This book ... contains a most interesting and informative account of two relatively small and unfamiliar actions between the US Cavalry and the Cheyenne. -- Arthur Harman Miniature War Games

Author Information

Douglas Scott is with both Nebraska Wesleyan University and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. His areas of specialization are historical archaeology of the American West, military archaeology, conflict and battlefield archaeology, human rights and forensic archaeology. He has conducted most of his fieldwork in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain West, and has also worked on human rights and forensic cases in Rwanda, Croatia, Bosnia, and Cyprus. Peter Bleed in Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska with particular research interest in battlefield archaeology, technology, material culture, lithics, historic archaeology, experimental archaeology, Japan, and North America especially in the application of evolutionary approaches to the study of material systems. Amanda Renner is an archeologist and GIS specialist with the National Park Service at the Midwest Archeological Center in Lincoln, Nebraska. She received her B.A. in anthropology from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and M. A. in Anthropology from the University of Wyoming. She also completed a graduate certificate in geographic information science from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her interests include applications of GIS to archeology, predictive modeling, and Great Plains/Rocky Mountains archaeology.

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