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Hollow Victory
Mark E. Miller
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The White River Expedition of 1879 and the Battle of Milk Creek
出版University Press of Colorado, 1997
主題History / Military / United StatesHistory / Indigenous Peoples in the AmericasHistory / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
ISBN087081463X9780870814631
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=V3x0AAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋National attention was riveted to isolated northwestern Colorado in the fall of 1879, when U.S. troops of the White River Expedition fought a pitched battle with Ute Indians. The troops had marched over 150 miles in nine days before meeting armed resistance just inside the northern border of the reservation, and a quiet mountain valley unexpectedly erupted in a prolonged and bloody conflict. Fought by former allies, the battle became one of the longest sustained engagements between the U.S. Cavalry and Native Americans. No one really won the battle of Milk Creek. While the Utes controlled the battlefield for most of the conflict, they were soon forced from their land and sent to a new reservation. The soldiers failed miserably in their effort to protect agency personnel. Perhaps the only measure of benefit was garnered by immigrants when Colorado opened the former Ute land to non-Indian settlement.