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Book Title: Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay : the Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars
Item Length: 8in
Item Height: 0.9in
Item Width: 5.5in
Author: DON Rickey, DON Rickey Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Features: Reprint
Topic: United States / 19th Century, Military / United States, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY)
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication Year: 1973
Genre: History
Item Weight: 15.6 Oz
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
