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Tending The Talking Wire
A Buck Soldier's View of Indian Country, 1863-1866
Edited by William E Unrau
Hervey Johnson's letters offer a fascinating first-person account of the critical Indian War years on the high plains of eastern Wyoming during which a confederation of Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians successfully defended their Powder River buffalo range.