Reorganisation

In a similar maddening fashion to how the army was reorganised in early 1867 after the Civil War, this story is now in the process of being pulled and pushed and tugged around too. I've decided that instead of incorporating it yet into a larger book of small series about the American West entitled On Paths We Used To Walk, it's going to exist somewhat independently of it.
This means that Caution to the Winter Wind will now be part of a separate novel I'm going to try and concentrate on about the story of Fort Phil Kearny. This will include the Powder River Invasion of 1865 (to open the gates for the settlers and therefore the forts), the treaties drawn up to try and force the Indians to let the soldiers use the land, the construction of the forts in Absaroka (the soldier's name for the area around Powder River), Red Cloud's War (including the events leading up to December 6th, December 6th itself and the Fetterman Fight) and also the events after, so the confusing army reorganisation (though only briefly mentioned I hope), Carrington being pulled down from his fort, the confusion of the War Department and Department of the Interior (again, only briefly mentioned I hope), the Wagon Box Fight of 1867 and eventually, the burning of the forts when the soldiers evacuate them to serve in the upcoming campaigns of 1868.
Yes, it sounds long, and yes, it probably will be long but it's a very interesting subject - at least to me - and some of the research is already done, namely some of the stuff for the Fetterman Fight, though with the new book, I need to develop that a little further.
Yet to come up with a title but I'll wait for that, I guess.
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