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"With eighty men I could ride through the entire Sioux nation." The story of the Fetterman Fight, near Fort Phil Kearney in present-day Wyoming in 1866, is based entirely on this infamous declaration attributed to Capt. William J. Fetterman. Historical accounts cite this statement in support of the premise that bravado and contempt for the fort's commander, Col. Henry B. Carrington, compelled Fetterman to disobey direct orders from Carrington and lead his men into an ambush by an alliance of Plains Indians in 1866. In the aftermath of the incident, Carrington's superiors positioned him as solely accountable for the "massacre" by suppressing exonerating evidence. In the face of this betrayal, Carrington's first and second wives came to their husband's defense by publishing books presenting his version of the deadly encounter. Although several of Fetterman's soldiers and fellow officers disagreed with the women's accounts, their chivalrous deference to women's moral authority during this age of Victorian sensibilities enabled Carrington's wives to present their story without challenge. In this fascinating book, Shannon D. Smith re-examines the works of the two Mrs. Carringtons in the context of contemporary evidence. Fetterman emerges as an outstanding officer who respected the Plains Indians' superiority in numbers, weaponry, and battle skills. Give Me Eighty Men both challenges standard interpretations of this American myth and shows the powerful influence of female writers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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• Plný název: Give Me Eighty Men
• Podnázev: Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight
• Autor: Shannon Smith
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 264
• EAN: 9780803234253
• ISBN: 0803234252
• ID: 04923067
• Nakladatelství: University of Nebraska Press
• Hmotnost: 342 g
• Rozměry: 217 × 137 × 14 mm
• Datum vydání: 01. November 2010

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