Henry B. Carrington

Henry B. Carrington is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, empire, conquest and resistance, and exploration, travel and cultural encounter. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.

In Michael Punke’s Ridgeline, Colonel Henry B. Carrington brings the 18th Infantry into the Powder River country to build forts protecting the Bozeman Trail, a route crossing the hunting grounds of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Northern Arapaho.