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Of all the US Army posts in the West, none witnessed more record than Fort Laramie, situated in the north Great Plains join the Rocky Mountains. From its beginnings as a trading post in 1834 to its abandonment by the military in 1890, it was involved in the buffalo disguise trade, overland migrations, Indian wars and treaties, the Utah War, Confederate maneuvering, and the arriving of the telegraph and first transcontinental railroad. Douglas C. McChristian has written the first complete record of Fort Laramie, chronicling every critical stage in its presence, including its addition to the National Area System. He pulls on an extraordinary array of archival materials - including those at Fort Laramie National Historic Site - to present new data about the fort and new interpretations of historical events. Emphasizing the fort's military services record, McChristian documents the army's vital role in closing difficulties posed by American Indians to US occupation and settlement of the spot, and he expands on the fort's relationships with the countless Native peoples of the Central Plains and Rocky Mountains. He offers a particularly lucid explanation of the infamous Grattan deal with of 1854, which initiated a era of strife between Indians and US military, and he recounts the 1851 Horses Creek and 1868 Fort Laramie treaties. Meticulously researched and gracefully advised, this is a long-overdue military services history of 1 of the American West's most venerable historical places. The e book is shared by School of Oklahoma Press.
