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Give Me Eighty Men: Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight (Nonfiction)

by | Jul 1, 2008 | Western Books

Shannon D. Smith, University of Nebraska Press, $39.95, Hardcover.
While legend and lore surround the Fetterman Fight, Smith attempts to unravel the myth. She tracks down the threads of the folklore, perpetuated by the wives of Col. Henry B. Carrington, who became the fall guy for the 1866 disastrous battle between the Army and the Plains Indians. Smith shines in uncovering the women’s web of deceit in an effort to exoner


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