A Dose of Frontier Soldiering

by Bode, Emil Adolph; Smith, Thomas T.

• ISBN13: 9780803261600
• ISBN10: 0803261608
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

Emil Adolph Bode, a German immigrant down on his luck, enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1877 and served for five years. More literate than most of his fellow soldiers, Bode described western flora and fauna, commenting on the American Indians he encountered as well as the slaughter of the buffalo, the hard and lonely life of the cowboy, and towns and settlements he passed through. His observations, seasoned with wry wit and sympathy, offer a truer picture of the frontier military experience than all the dashing cavalry charges and thundering artillery in Western literature.

Author Biography

Thomas T. Smith is a regular army lieutenant colonel of infantry assigned to Fort Bliss, Texas. He is the editor of Mary Leefe Laurence’s Daughter of the Regiment (Nebraska 1994).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii	(2)
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(14)
One. Enlisting in the Infantry, 1877	15	(8)
Two. En Route to Fort Sill, June 1877	23	(12)
Three. Fort Sill, 1877-1878	35	(14)
Four. Indians and the Indian Territory, 1878-1879	49	(25)
Five. Frontier Duties in the Indian Territory, 1878-1879	74	(28)
Six. Prairie Adventures, 1879-1880	102	(26)
Seven. Fort Gibson, 1880	128	(11)
Eight. The Victorio Campaign, 1880	139	(29)
Nine. The Texas Frontier, 1881-1882	168	(21)
Notes	189	(32)
Bibliography	221	(8)
Index	229