Abstract

Excerpt from "Cavalrymen and their Horses during the American Indian Wars."

From 1866 to 1891, ten US Cavalry regiments fought a dozen major campaigns against the American Indians of the western United States.

Keywords:

• cavalry,
• war,
• Indians,
• Native American,
• army,
• military,
• cavalrymen,
• horses,
• skirmish,
• Civil War,
• troops,
• American Indian War,
• riding,
• gear,
• company,
• Calico Troop,
• Brindles,
• fight,
• saddle,
• officer