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Book Title: Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed : The Struggle for the Powder River Country in 1866 and the Making of the Fetterman Myth
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 1.1in
Item Width: 6in
Author: John H. Monnett
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Military / United States, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication Year: 2010
Genre: History
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Number of Pages: 350 Pages
