TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steinbach,Robert H.
TI  - A Long March: The Lives of Frank and Alice Baldwin 
SN  - 9780292761773
U1  - 978/.02/0922 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Austin
PB  - University of Texas Press
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Wars
KW  - 1866-1895
KW  - Officers' spouses
KW  - Biography
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Prologue --; 1 Beginnings --; 2 "Mud and Romance" --; 3 Return to the Plains --; 4 The Red River War --; 5 The Montana War --; 6 Hard Service --; 7 The Close of the Frontier --; 8 The Philippine Insurrection --; 9 Retirement --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - During a distinguished military career, in which he rose to the rank of brigadier general and twice won the Medal of Honor, Frank Baldwin saw service in the Civil War, the Indian wars on the Great Plains, and the Spanish-American War. His wife, Alice Blackwood Baldwin, shared the "long march" with him, from his Plains service onward. In this first biography of the Baldwins, Robert Steinbach combines military and personal history to vividly portray a marriage that survived both the harshness of frontier army life and the restrictive Victorian concept of "separate spheres" for husband and wife. Drawing on a wealth of diaries, letters, and other family papers, Steinbach re-creates the Baldwins' life on the Plains. Moving from post to post in Kansas, New Mexico, Montana, North Dakota, and Texas, they faced danger, excitement, separations, poverty, and many other hardships. Frequently they clashed over Alice's desire to be something more than "an ornament to society"—a wish eventually granted as Frank's long absences and chronic ill health required Allie to take responsibility for herself and their daughter. With insights into military campaigns on the Great Plains in the years 1865–1890 and a revealing look at the human side of those campaigns, A Long March will appeal to a wide audience
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/746596
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292761773
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292761773/original
ER  -