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Fort Laramie seened like the end of the world to the settlers going West on the Oregon Trail. But it was really only the beginning of a pitched battle among settlers looking for a new life, the ragtag army whose job was to protect them, and the watchful Indian nations who demanded recognition of their territorial rights.
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"Fort Laramie seemed like the end of the world to the settlers going West on the Oregon Trail. But it was really only the beginning of a pitched battle among settlers looking for a new life, the ragtag army whose job was to protect them, and the watchful Indian nations who demanded recognition of their territorial rights.
Army surgeon Jason Dobbs was a war hero, wasting his life in Washington when he was assigned to the Wyoming outpost to save his health and keep the settlers alive. Brever Second Lieutenant Jean Benoit was a blue blood Louisiana rogue sent to Fort Laramie as a punishment for his affair with the daughter of a prominent senator. Badger was the Broule warrior whose people's destiny was to confront the U.S. Army. Each man had a story to tell--of the real West, of a time of pain and victory, destruction and birth, shame and glory.
Army surgeon Jason Dobbs was a war hero, wasting his life in Washington when he was assigned to the Wyoming outpost to save his health and keep the settlers alive. Brever Second Lieutenant Jean Benoit was a blue blood Louisiana rogue sent to Fort Laramie as a punishment for his affair with the daughter of a prominent senator. Badger was the Broule warrior whose people's destiny was to confront the U.S. Army. Each man had a story to tell--of the real West, of a time of pain and victory, destruction and birth, shame and glory.
