Fort Phil Kearny

were ever seen alive again. Seven months after the tragic bloodshed of the Fetterman Massacre by a band of Lakota; Sargent Seamus Donegan was stationed near Fort Phil Kearney recovering from the horror and bloodbath in which he participated.

(1831-1870), the wife of the Commanding Officer Colonel Henry B. Carrington, at Fort Philip Kearny. This novel was written from her own journal about her time spent traveling to the outpost up to her return to Fort Laramie. The book reads initially as a guide to prospective travelers on the Virginia City road, and finishes in the same fashion. In between are her first hand accounts of the troubles experienced at Fort Kearny between eighteen sixty-six and eighteen sixty-seven. The years are significant

Today people communicate through text and email and think nothing about it because they can get a reply right away. Back in the 1800’s people had to wait for up to, months to get a reply from someone. “The mail was delivered by either stagecoach or by boat and it would take up to 21 days to get a letter to someone” (Pony Express). In the 1860’s a group of men invented a faster mail delivery service called the Pony Express. The Pony express transformed the ingenuity of America by the delivery of a

soldiers and civilians on December 21, 1866 at Fort Kearny. This attack sparked national outrage and demands for revenge against all American Indians. The year that followed saw Army victories at a few battles but ultimately the Bozeman Trail and its three forts were abandoned after the Army conceded to the American Indians. The United States government officially formalized the surrender of the three Bozeman Trail forts and the trail itself with the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. Another extremely important

The Sioux nation is still alive today and are still faced with many setbacks. The life expectancy for people on the Reservations is 47 years for men and 52 years for women. This could be due to the lack of medicine and technology to cure diseases that may spread through the reservations. In Saga of the Sioux, there are major conflicts, themes, and is in third person point of view. In the nonfiction novel Saga of the Sioux, there are two major conflicts. They are Man vs. Nature and Man vs. Society

People all around the world need to know the history of the Native Americans. In Saga of the Sioux it gives many details about the different Native Tribes around America. The author tells in the third point of the view different conflicts like Man versus Nature and Man versus Society, as well as the different themes such as Fight for your rights and watch who you trust. Natives Americans lived very different lives than we did. In Saga of the Sioux, there are two major conflicts. They are

according to the Mexicans but a part of Republic of Texas for the Americans. President Polk took it as an attack, it as an attack over the United States soil and declared war against the Mexicans. The fight was hard as Mexican went hard to secure the fort. The bombardment was around 160 hours that made them weak many times. The Mexican tried to respond with the force of 2400 men but they failed. The short war

American frontiersmen during the 19th century were some of the fiercest pioneers that have ever roamed newly unexplored territories. After the American Revolution, the United States gained territory that the British Empire claimed as their own west of the Appalachians. This created new opportunities for many Americans throughout the liberated country to travel west, specifically the well-known pioneer--Daniel Boone—who was very famous for his successful settlements in Kentucky. As a result, many