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  Promise Destiny's Trail to Bozeman Lakota Custer Wounded Knee Plains Indians
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ISBN 0952860783
Details: Hard Cover

Quantity in Stock:1

Product Code: PMSE

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The Bozeman Trail was the last great western emigrant trail, a five hundred mile overland road from the Platte River to Montana goldfields. Laying in between was the Powder River Basin, the Bighorn River and the Yellowstone River Valley, the domain of the Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho and Crow.

Here the dreams and dreamers collided and the emigrant trail became a military road that initiated the Indian Wars on the Northern Plains.

The clash of cultures and fight for land was a collusion of ideals, the will to possess over that to preserve. Buffalo or gold? The horse or railroad? A way of life that had endured for hundreds of years or the Industrial Revolution?

Between 1863 and 1868 those questions were asked along the Bozeman Trail, but they weren't answered until Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer marched the Seventh Cavalry to the Little Bighorn in 1876, and a destitute band of Lakotas were surrounded at a creek called Wounded Knee fourteen years later.

In an era when to most the ends justified any means, the American character was born where the sun always falls and nowhere were the shadows longer than on the Bozeman Trail -- the road to the Last Stand of legend, the trail to destiny and contemporary reality.

CONDITION: Hard Cover with DJ, light wear to DJ from shelving, mylar cover added to DJ. Fine Condition.

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