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FORT RILEY AND ITS NEIGHBORS: Military Money and Economic Growth, 1853-1895
FORT RILEY AND ITS NEIGHBORS Military Money and Economic Growth 18531895
Author: William, A Dobak
FORT RILEY AND ITS NEIGHBORS is a story of soldiers trying to save money and civilians trying to make it. Fort Riley stands today overlooking the Kansas River because army quartermasters in the 1850s thought that small steamboats could deliver supplies cheaply there. Civilians came to help build the fort and stayed to bid on the quartermaster's ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780806139081
ISBN-10: 0806139080
Publication Date: 1/5/1998
Pages: 260
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Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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