Product Description: When Edward W. Wynkoop arrived in Colorado Territory during the 1858 gold rush, he was one of many ambitious newcomers seeking wealth in a promising land mostly inhabited by American Indians. After he worked as a miner, sheriff, bartender, and land speculator, Wynkoop’s life drastically changed after he joined the First Colorado Volunteers to fight for the Union during the Civil War...read more

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Product Description: 224p, illust dj, photos, illus, paintings, maps, footnotes, biblio, index. Excellent reconstruction of George Armstrong Custer's winter campaign on the southern plains. The Washita, of course, but also the entire development and conclusion of the operation,...read more

En route to the peace council at Medicine Lodge Creek--a meeting designed to help whites and Indians resolve their differences--Ned Morgan is sidetracked by a storm and by a gang of Cheyenne warriors raiding a homestead