Rickey, Don, Jr.

Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay; The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1976. 5th ptg. (1st pub. (1963). Soft cover. 382p, a few ills. and maps. Good. Item #33093

Unlike most histories of the Indian Wars (1866-91), this one is based not on officers' and historians' writings but on interviews with over 300 veterans about their army experiences on the post-Civil War frontier. "This is the first documented account of the mass personality of the rank and file during the Indian Wars, and is only incidentally a history of those campaigns." Horses are treated only in passing. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Price: $12.50