Metal Uniform Insignia of the Frontier U.S. Army, 1846-1902
Author: Sidney B. Brinckerhoff
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13:
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Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
Author: Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1981-06-01
Total Pages: 804
ISBN-13: 9780803289055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe wife of an officer gives a vivid late-nineteenth-century account of frontier life with the army in the West as well as describing the beauty of the countryside
Encyclopedia of United States Army Insignia and Uniforms
Author: William K. Emerson
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 708
ISBN-13: 9780806126227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKarmy branches - infantry, artillery, cavalry, and engineers - as well as the service and support branches comprising doctors and nurses, chaplains, musicians, quartermasters, military police, and the many others who have made up the U.S. Army. Insignia worn by all soldiers, such as eagles, devices with the letters US, and other letters and numbers, are also described and illustrated. Historians, military collectors, military reenactors, antique dealers and collectors,
U.S. Army Uniforms and Equipment, 1889
Author: Quartermaster General of the Army
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1986-06-01
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780803295520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis rare book contains not only complete specifications but detailed line drawings of virtually every item of uniform and equipment issued. It is a valuable reference for articles used during the 1870s and 1880s, the period of the Indian wars. For much of the nineteenth century, the production of military clothing and equipment was geared to national emergencies. During the Mexican and Civil wars, the hardpressed Quartermaster Department was forced to rely on civilian and, later, European suppliers. A contract system too often resulted in profiteering, inferior goods, and administrative confusion. By 1887 reforms in the system were accompanied by strict specifications for matäriel, which were published by the War Department in 1889 and distributed to fewer than sixty officers in the Quartermaster Department. Never before reprinted, this rare book contains not only complete specifications but detailed line drawings of virtually every item of uniform and equipment issued, from mosquito bars and tent stoves to overalls for mounted men and uniform coat buttons ("the burnishing to be done in the best manner known to the trade"). This valuable reference for articles used by the army during the period of the Indian wars will be of special interest to collectors, historians, archaeologists, curators, and antique dealers.
The U.S. Army in the West, 1870-1880
Author: Douglas C. McChristian
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2006-03-01
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780806137827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescription of the development and evolution of Army uniforms, equipment, and small arms during a pivotal decade of experimentation and against the backdrop of a highly influential military operation - the Indian campaigns in the West.
Frontier Regulars
Author: Robert Marshall Utley
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780803295513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDetails the U.S. Army's campaign in the years following the Civil War to contain the American Indian and promote Western expansion
Uniforms, Arms, and Equipment: Headgear, clothing, and footwear
Author: Douglas C. McChristian
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780806137896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuilding on the success of his best-selling The U.S. Army in the West, 1870-1880:Uniforms, Arms, and Equipment, Douglas C. McChristian here presents a two-volume comprehensive account of the evolution of military arms and equipment during the years 1880–1892. The volumes are set against the backdrop of the final decade of the Indian campaigns—a key period of transition in United States military history. In Volume 1, McChristian shows how the Quartermaster Department modified the design and manufacturing of uniforms and other clothing to meet the developing needs of troops in the American West. Drawing on extensive research in public and private collections throughout the United States and lavishly illustrated with more than four hundred color and black-and-white illustrations, these volumes will serve as invaluable references for collectors, curators, and students of militaria and of the frontier era.
Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Author: Douglas D. Scott
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2013-05-01
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0806189754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEver since the Custer massacres on June 25, 1876, the question has been asked: What happened - what REALLY happened - at the Battle of the Little Bighorn? We know some of the answers, because half of George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry - the men with Major Marcus Reno and Captain Frederick Benteen - survived the fight, but what of the half that did not, the troopers, civilians, scouts, and journalist who were with Custer? Now, because a grass fire in August 1983 cleared the terrain of brush and grass and made possible thorough archaeological examinations of the battlefield in 1984 and 1985, we have many answers to important questions. On the basis of the archaeological evidence presented in this book, we know more about what kinds of weapons were used against the cavalry. We know exactly where many of the men fought, how they died, and what happened to their bodies at the time of or after death. We know how the troopers were deployed, what kind of clothing they wore, what kind of equipment they had, how they fought. Through the techniques of historical archaeology and forensic anthropology, the remains and grave of one of Custer’s scouts, Mitch Boyer, have been identified. And through geomorphology and the process of elimination, we know with almost 100 percent certainty where the twenty-eight missing men who supposedly were buried en masse in Deep Ravine will be found.
Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Author: Melissa A. Connor
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2013-05-01
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 0806170506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEver since the Custer massacres on June 25, 1876, the question has been asked: What happened - what REALLY happened - at the Battle of the Little Bighorn? We know some of the answers, because half of George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry - the men with Major Marcus Reno and Captain Frederick Benteen - survived the fight, but what of the half that did not, the troopers, civilians, scouts, and journalist who were with Custer? Now, because a grass fire in August 1983 cleared the terrain of brush and grass and made possible thorough archaeological examinations of the battlefield in 1984 and 1985, we have many answers to important questions. On the basis of the archaeological evidence presented in this book, we know more about what kinds of weapons were used against the cavalry. We know exactly where many of the men fought, how they died, and what happened to their bodies at the time of or after death. We know how the troopers were deployed, what kind of clothing they wore, what kind of equipment they had, how they fought. Through the techniques of historical archaeology and forensic anthropology, the remains and grave of one of Custer’s scouts, Mitch Boyer, have been identified. And through geomorphology and the process of elimination, we know with almost 100 percent certainty where the twenty-eight missing men who supposedly were buried en masse in Deep Ravine will be found.
The Era of the Civil War--1820-1876
Author: Louise A. Arnold-Friend
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 724
ISBN-13:
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