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The brass command

The brass command

Fisher, Clay, 1912-1991, author.
Large Print 2021

"On the night of September 2, 1878, two men died. One was Colonel James McAllister, the commander of Fort Robinson in northwestern Nebraska. The other was Iron Mountain, chief of the Cheyenne living in exile on the Darlington Reservation near Fort Reno in Oklahoma Territory. As Dull Knife becomes the new chief of the Cheyenne, he considers the condition of his people. Once strong, they are now ravaged by hunger and disease. With only a few muzzl...

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Fort Robinson (Neb.) Fiction
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ISBN:
9781638080596
9781638080558
1638080593
1638080550
Edition:
Center Point Large Print edition
Description:
286 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm
large print
Other Title:
Dull knife
Notes:
Regular print version originally published in the U.S. by: Houghton Mifflin
"Copyright ©1958 by Henry Wilson Allen in the British Commonwealth under the title Dull Knife"
LCCN:
2021939505
Control Number:
3295659
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