Action at Beecher Island

*From the inside flap:* Fifty-one valiant frontiersmen, in search of a huge Indian war party that could threaten the whole Colorado territory. Half-a-hundred men whose job it was to find the hostile band of Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho, and report their position before full-scale war could erupt. But the scouting party was discovered first, and the Indians attacked. Hurriedly the men retreated to a small island on the Arickaree Fork of the Republican River ... and there, the fifty-one men harassed the Indian hordes and withstood their determined attack for more than nine days. Historians call the battle at Beecher's Island the greatest Indian fight of all. Skillfully re-created by author Dee Brown, it makes incredibly exciting reading-especially when one realizes that all of it really happened!

Year

1967

Publisher

Doubleday

Editions

1

ISBN

9789997502858

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