Writings and sketches, 1876-[1877?]

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Title: Writings and sketches, 1876-[1877?]
Alternative Title: A review of the Campaign of 1876 looking over the Custer battle ground a few hours after the massacre by the Sioux.
Recollections of the Sioux Campaign of 1876 as I saw it from the viewpoint of an enlisted man, and from first-hand [information] told to us
Creator: Coon, Homer
Contributor: Benteen, Frederick William, 1834-1898
Coon, Homer
Reno, Marcus A.--(Marcus Albert),--1835-1889
Terry, Alfred Howe,--1827-1890
Published / Created: 1876-[1877?]
Abstract: Two typewritten manuscripts: "The outbreak of Chief Joseph" (WA MSS 109) and "Recollections of the Sioux Campaign of 1876..." (WA MSS 110) Pen and ink sketches: a plan of the battlefield in the Nez Percé war and sketch of the way wounded soldiers from the Battle of the Little Big Horn were transferred to the steamer Far West.
Description: Homer Coon, soldier in General Gibbon's command, fought in the Sioux campaign of 1876 and Nez Percé outbreak of 1877.
Extent: 2 v. (4 items)
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: text
Genre: Autographs
Illustrations
Memoirs--United States.--rbgenr
Typescripts
Subject (Name): Benteen, Frederick William, 1834-1898
Coon, Homer
Reno, Marcus A.--(Marcus Albert),--1835-1889
Terry, Alfred Howe,--1827-1890
Subject (Topic): Dakota Indians--Wars, 1876
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876
Nez Percé Indians--Wars, 1877

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Citation: Homer Coon Writings and Sketches. Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Withington, M. C. Catalogue of Western Americana Manuscripts, 109-110.