{"product_id":"forty-miles-a-day-on-don-rickey-9780806111131","title":"Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay: The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe enlisted men in the United States Army during the Indian Wars (1866-91) need no longer be mere shadows behind their historically well-documented commanding officers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs member of the regular army, these men formed an important segment of our usually slighted national military continuum and, through their labors, combats, and endurance, created the framework of law and order within which settlement and development become possible. We should know more about the common soldier in our military past, and here he is.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe rank and file regular, then as now, was psychologically as well as physically isolated from most of his fellow Americans. The people were tired of the military and its connotations after four years of civil war. They arrayed their army between themselves and the Indians, paid its soldiers their pittance, and went about the business of mushrooming the nation's economy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBecause few enlisted men were literarily inclined, many barely able to scribble their names, most previous writings about them have been what officers and others had to say. To find out what the average soldier of the post-Civil War frontier thought, Don Rickey, Jr., asked over three hundred living veterans to supply information about their army experiences by answering questionnaires and writing personal accounts. Many of them who had survived to the mid-1950's contributed much more through additional correspondence and personal interviews.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhether the soldier is speaking for himself or through the author in his role as commentator-historian, this is the first documented account of the mass personality of the rank and file during the Indian Wars, and is only incidentally a history of those campaigns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Don Rickey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0806111135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780806111131\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/1973\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.08h x 5.43w x 0.94d","brand":"Don Rickey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44043924766975,"sku":"9780806111131","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_181e7763-8c77-4ced-95d6-0d13f752e60d.jpg?v=1684969914","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/forty-miles-a-day-on-don-rickey-9780806111131","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}