Campaigning with Crook

✅ The Big 📐🐘 Horn 🥳 and ➕ Yellowstone Expedition in 1️⃣8️⃣7️⃣6️⃣ was successful in scattering the united and ➕ victorious Indians of the Custer massacre. Commanded by General George Crook and ➕ covering 📔 eight 8️⃣ hundred 💯 miles in ten weeks, the campaign was a hard one 1️⃣ on Indians and ➕ soldiers alike. Before it ended 🔚, many of the cavalrymen were walking 🚶‍♂️-their horses 🐴 had either died ☠️ or were killed for food 🍽️. The Indians had their problems, too. The earlier Rosebud and ➕ Custer fights had expended much of their ammunition, their own scorched-earth 🌐 tactics had destroyed much of their grazing land, and ➕ they were pressed so hard by Crook they had little opportunity to hunt. The story of the campaign is vividly told 🗣️ by Charles King 👑🧔, adjutant of General Merritt& 3️⃣9️⃣;s Fifth Cavalry. A fine companion volume to newsman John F. Finerty& 3️⃣9️⃣;s War-Path and ➕ Bivouac (Norman, 1️⃣9️⃣6️⃣1️⃣), King 👑🧔& 3️⃣9️⃣;s account presents 🎁 the soldier& 3️⃣9️⃣;s point 👈️ of view. It also covers 📔 the activities of the fifth Cavalry before joining Crook& 3️⃣9️⃣;s force, including the fight on the War Bonnet, which succeeded in turning a large group of Cheyennes back 🔙 to the Red 🔴 Cloud ☁️ Agency and ➕ prevented their joining Sitting ⬇️🛋️ Bull 🐂. It was on the War Bonnet that King 👑🧔 witnessed 👁️‍🗨️ Buffalo 🐃 Bill 💵 Cody& 3️⃣9️⃣;s famous fight with Yellow 💛 Hand ✋, which he 👤👨 recounts in detail. King 👑🧔& 3️⃣9️⃣;s book 📚️, first 🥇 published in 1️⃣8️⃣8️⃣0️⃣, presents 🎁 an articulate and ➕ detailed picture 🖼️ of the dangers ⚡️ and ➕ privations of Indian campaigning at its toughest.Charles King 👑🧔 wrote 🖋️ sixty-nine 9️⃣ books 📚️, most of them ➡️👥 novels b...

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