Fort Robinson Mug
$8.95/ $8.05 members
This dishwasher-safe porcelain mug features
the Ninth Cavalry, Company K insignia on one side. The Ninth
U.S. Cavalry was an African American "Buffalo Soldier"
regiment stationed at Fort Robinson during the 1880s and 1890s.
Buffalo Soldiers T-shirt: The
10th Cavalry, Fort Robinson, Nebraska, Nebraska State Historical
Society
T-shirt color: stonewash blue.
Adult sizes only, $13.95/$12.55 members
The Frontier Army in the Settlement
of the West, by Michael L.
Tate.
$34.95/$31.45 members (cloth)
Tate focuses on the army's role in conducting
explorations, compiling scientific and artistic records, building
roads, aiding overland travelers, and improving river transportation.
The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the
West, revised edition by William
H. Leckie with Shirley A. Leckie. $29.95/$26.95 members (cloth)
The authors further explore the lives of
buffalo soldiers in the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments
Traveler's Guide to the Great Sioux War: The Battlefields, Forts,
and Related Sites of America's
Greatest Indian War, by Paul L. Hedren.
$10.95/$9.85 members (paper)
Descriptions of fifty-four battle and skirmish
sites, forts, and landmarks as seen today and how to find them.
Old Time Toy: Harmonica
$8.75/$7.87 members
Old Time Toy: Jaw Harp
$7.75/$6.97 members
Airplane Spotter Playing Cards, World War II.
$6/$5.40 members
A facsimile of a deck first issued in 1943.
Squadron Scramble Card Game.
$10/$9 members
An authentic reproduction, originally published
in 1942, of a classic rummy-style game. (Ages 7 and up)
World War II for Kids: A History with 21 Activities, by Richard Panchyk
$14.95/ $13.45 members (paper)
Activities show children how it felt to live through this period
of history.
Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas, by Mari Sandoz
$15.95/ $14.35 members (paper)
Being both imaginative and factual, Sandoz
writes of Crazy Horse, his people, and his times.
Cobblestone -- the history magazine for young people
$5.95/ $5.35 members (paper)
"Buffalo Soldiers"
Voices of the American West, Volume 1: The Indian Interviews
of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919,
by Eli S. Ricker, edited and with an introduction by Richard
E. Jensen.
$55/$49.50 members (cloth)
Indian eyewitnesses to the death of Crazy
Horse, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the Wounded Knee
Massacre tell their stories of these and many related episodes
in interviews recorded by a Chadron, Nebraska, judge and newspaperman.
The Ricker interviews are preserved in the Nebraska State Historical
Society Archives.
Voices of the American West, Volume 2: The Settler and Soldier
Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919,
by Eli S. Ricker, edited by Richard E. Jensen.
$55/$49.50 members (cloth)
White participants in the occupation and
settlement of the American West offer commentary on various topics,
including warfare, government Indian policy, reservation life,
and cattle drives as recorded by Ricker in the early twentieth
century.
First Scalp for Custer: The Skirmish at Warbonnet Creek, Nebraska,
July 17, 1876, by Paul L. Hedren,
revised edition.
$9.95/$8.95 members (paper)
The story of a clash between the Fifth
U.S. Cavalry and Cheyenne Indians in which the only casualty
was a warrior named Yellow Hair, who was killed by scout William
F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody. This minor episode, coming
on the heels of Custer's defeat at the Little Bighorn, signaled
the army's ultimate victory in the Great Sioux War of 1876 -77,
and bolstered Cody's fame.
The Cheyenne Outbreak Barracks,
text by Terry L. Steinacher and
Gayle F. Carlson
$2.50 / $2.25 members (paper)
1887 Adobe Barracks, text by Terry L. Steinacher and Gayle F. Carlson
$2.50 / $2.25 members (paper)
The Crazy Horse Surrender Ledger, edited by Thomas
R. Buecker and R. Eli Paul
$44.95/ $40.45 members (cloth)
Reproduction of a ledger containing an
1877 census of Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians at Red Cloud
Agency, including Crazy Horse's band.
A
Frontier Army Christmas,
compiled and annotated by Lori A. Cox-Paul and Dr. James Wengert
$12.95/ $11.65 members (paper)
Reviews how soldiers and families observed
the holiday, both in garrison and in the field food, drink,
entertainment, and gift giving.
Fort
Robinson and the American West: 1874-1899, by Thomas R. Buecker
$19.95/ $17.95 members (paper)
Drawing from government records, reports,
correspondence, and reminiscences, the book details the fort's
role during the Indian wars of the 1870s and as the home of the
black cavalrymen (buffalo soldiers) in the 1880s and 1890s.
Fort Robinson and the American Century: 1900-1948, by Thomas R. Buecker
$40/ $36 members (cloth), $19.95/$17.95 members (paper)
This recent book recounts the last half-century
of this famous northwestern Nebraska army post as it assumed
new roles - army remount depot, war dog training center, and
World War II prisoner of war camp.
Fort Robinson: A Self Guided Tour,
by Thomas R. Buecker
$3/ $2.70 members ( paper)
An active U.S. military post from 1874
to 1948, Fort Robinson is now a Nebraska State Park. Highlights
relate historic sites and buildings through-out the park.
