Archeological interpretation of the frontier battle at mud springs, Nebraska

Great Plains Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-25

  Bleed, Peter ^a   Scott, Douglas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Battlefield archeology; Civil War in the West; Firearms identification; Indian Wars; Viewshed analysis; Weapons fan analysis

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; DETECTION METHOD; HISTORICAL RECORD; METAL; TERRAIN; WAR; WEAPON;

MUD SPRINGS; NEBRASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 65349180834     PISSN: 10525165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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