New Releases by Dee Brown

Failure and triumph each played their parts in the final.

These legendary brigands and cutthroats made opening the trans-Allegheny west a colorful, but deadly, business.

The Fetterman Massacre occurred on December 21, 1866, at Fort Phil Kearny, a small outpost in the foothills of the Big Horns. The second battle in American history from which came no survivors, it became a cause cèlébre and was the subject of a congressional investigation. Capt. William J. Fetterman disobeyed orders of Col. Henry B. Carrington, commander of the Fort in 1866, and led 80 men to their deaths.