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For the first time we have the detailed story of all the little fights that preceded the major disaster. . . . It is one of the best studies that has been made of any sector of the Indian wars.--Don Russell, Chicago Sunday Tribune This meticulously documented book . . ., based on Army records and firsthand reports, should stand as definitive. [It] is, by far, the best account yet of Fort Phil Kearny and the stirring events that took place. . . . A must for devotees of Western Americana.--Robert F. Hannon, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Praise for the original Bison Books edition of Fort Phil Kearny: An American Saga This meticulously documented book . . ., based on army records and firsthand reports, should stand as definitive. [It] is, by far, the best account yet of Fort Phil Kearny and the stirring events that took place. . . . A must for devotees of Western Americana. --Robert Hannon, St. Louis Post-Distpatch For the first time we have the detailed story of all the little fights that preceded the major disaster. . . . It is one of the best studies that has been made of any sector of the Indian Wars. --Don Russell, Chicago Sunday Tribune This is an excellent introduction to the period we know as the Indian Wars as well as a prelude to the major disaster a decade in the future. --Military Affairs Brown has resisted the temptation to argue disputed points in detail. He has marshaled the facts, allowing the documents to speak for themselves. --Westerners Brand Book [Dee Brown] has always been a highly gifted storyteller, in the best sense of the word, as well as a careful historian. He is aided here by the nature of his material. . . . This is a vivid portrayal of the period, and it is a book where perhaps the cliche 'hard-to-put-down' may for once be justifiably used. --English Westerners' Tally Sheet The scholarship is surpassed only by the engaging style which in toto makes Fort Phil Kearny a most readable book. --Journal of the West

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Dee Brown (1908–2002) was the author of several novels in addition to his nonfiction books, which include Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West (Bison Books, 1981), and The Galvanized Yankees (Bison Books, 1986). Shannon D. Smith is the former executive director for the Wyoming Humanities Council and taught at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for seven years. She is the author of Give Me Eighty Men: Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight (Nebraska, 2008).  

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