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A surgeon with Custer at the Little Big Horn : James DeWolf's diary and letters, 1876 / edited by Todd E. Harburn ; foreword by Paul Andrew Hutton.
- Title
- A surgeon with Custer at the Little Big Horn : James DeWolf's diary and letters, 1876 / edited by Todd E. Harburn ; foreword by Paul Andrew Hutton.
- Author
- DeWolf, James M., 1843-1876
- Publication
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2017]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | E83.876 .D355 2017 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Harburn, Todd E.
- Description
- xxv, 257 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The biography and annotated journal of physician James Madison DeWolf, a contract surgeon for the Seventh Cavalry, who accompanied Lieutenant Colonel George Custer's battalion at the Battle of the Little Big Horn and died in the early stages of battle."--Provided by publisher.
- Alternative Title
- James DeWolf's diary and letters, 1876
- Subject
- DeWolf, James M., 1843-1876 > Diaries
- DeWolf, James M., 1843-1876 > Correspondence
- DeWolf, James M., 1843-1876
- United States. Army > Surgeons > Biography
- United States. Cavalry, 7th
- United States. Army > History > 19th century
- United States. Cavalry, 7th
- 1800-1899
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 > Personal narratives
- Physicians > United States > Diaries
- Physicians > United States > Correspondence
- Frontier and pioneer life > Dakota Territory
- Physicians
- Indians, North American
- Warfare
- Military Medicine
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Diaries
- History
- Personal narratives
- Records and correspondence
- Diary
- Collected Correspondence
- Collected Correspondence.
- Note
- "James DeWolf's diary and letters were originally published in North Dakota History 25, nos. 1 and 2 (1958): 33-82"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- James Madison DeWolf of Mehoopany, Pennsylvania -- Fort Seward, D.T.: March 10 to April 14, 1876 -- Fort Abraham Lincoln, D.T.: April 16 to May 14, 1876 -- Misjudgment and the trail to disaster: May 17 to June 24, 1876 -- "If he had gotten a few feet further ... ": the retreat to Reno Hill -- Epilogue -- Appendixes -- A. Account book pages of DeWolf's diary -- B. DeWolf's early diary entries, October 1875 -- Edward S. Luce's introduction to DeWolf's diary and letters, 1958.
- ISBN
- 9780806156941
- 0806156945
- LCCN
- ^^2016041688
- OCLC
- 958932427
- SCSB-11570247
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library