Fort Sedgwick: Colorado Territory: Hell Hole On The Platte
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While the name of "Fort Sedgwick" recently slipped into the national consciousness with the popular but fictional movie "Dances with Wolves," the story of the post has been all but forgotten. Until now. Painstakingly, researched over a 20-year period, Fort Sedgwick, C.T. - Hell Hole on the Platte brings together for the first time the complete narrative of the post and those who served there. Drawn extensively from diaries, letters, and military records, Hel on the Platte reveals a saga of fraud and corruptions, bravery and daring-do, shotgun weddings and French leave, triumph and tragedy, all at a post where the quarters, if any, were considered unlivable, the food was terrible, pleasures were few and the nearest bath was the South Platte River. Established in later 4864 to help protect the trade and communications routes, the post quickly few from a couple of sod huts to a full-blown military installation before fading into oblivion a short seven years later. All visible traces of buildings and grounds have surrendered to cultivation and the advance of time. Here in these pages Fort Sedgwick Lives Again. Book is signed by the author on the inside front cover page. Some yellowing to the edges of the white cover and some red print transfer from the spine to the left hand side.
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