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Roses of the earth and a frontier peril in 1860s war tale
The narrative follows Burleigh and the improvised war party marching toward Warrior Gap faced with Red Cloud's Sioux threat. Officers discuss weapons promises, supply routes, and mounting anxieties as frontier posts doubt missions while tensions rise along the Big Horn and Gate City corridors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cookley
Medicine Row
Brooks
Subalternas
Burleigh
Geno
Loring
Stone
Goring
Warrior Gap
Crazy Woman's Fork
Gate City
Red Cloud
Thornton
Dry Fork
Old Folsom
Baptiste
Folsom
Big Horn
Dean
Frayne
Washington
Department of the Interior
Indian Bureau
Smoky Hill
Fouthern Plains
Interior Department
Union Pacific
Kearney
Julesburg
Washington End
Laramie
Emory
Cheyenne
Omaha
John Folsom
Missouri
The
Reta
Reno
Lot
Platte
Fort
Hill and Dale
Mountain Pass
North Platte
Grand Range
Fort Bufides
Armay