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Using Cheyenne and Arapaho accounts, Charles J. Brill tells the story of General George Armstrong Custer's ruthless campaign on the southern plains in 1868, including his attack on Indian encampments on the banks of the Washita River. "...invaluable for anyone interested in the history of the Washita Massacre." -- Watonga Republican "...this historically significant account is one of the few detailed examinations of the Battle of the Washita." Dallas Morning News
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THEY still are writing about the Battle of the Little Big Horn; of that dramatic finale to the ten-year campaign General George A. Custer waged against nomadic legions of the Western Plains from what is now Oklahoma to Montana; of that tragic June encounter when Custer and more than two hundred fifty of those who followed him in that ill-advised charge against the Sioux and their allies met the same fate they had meted out to so many of their bronzed enemies in the southern sector. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Black Kettle, Medicine Arrow, Little Raven, Fort Cobb, Lone Wolf, Little Robe, Camp Supply, Great White Father, General Sheridan, Plains Indians, Major Elliott, Sand Creek, United States, Seventh Cavalry, Little Beaver, Red River, Roman Nose, Southern Plains, Antelope Hills, Ben Clark, Fort Hays, Fort Larned, Crow Neck, Little Rock, Fort Dodge New!
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THEY still are writing about the Battle of the Little Big Horn; of that dramatic finale to the ten-year campaign General George A. Custer waged against nomadic legions of the Western Plains from what is now Oklahoma to Montana; of that tragic June encounter when Custer and more than two hundred fifty of those who followed him in that ill-advised charge against the Sioux and their allies met the same fate they had meted out to so many of their bronzed enemies in the southern sector. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Black Kettle, Medicine Arrow, Little Raven, Fort Cobb, Lone Wolf, Little Robe, Camp Supply, Great White Father, General Sheridan, Plains Indians, Major Elliott, Sand Creek, United States, Seventh Cavalry, Little Beaver, Red River, Roman Nose, Southern Plains, Antelope Hills, Ben Clark, Fort Hays, Fort Larned, Crow Neck, Little Rock, Fort Dodge New!
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- Conquest of the Southern Plains by Charles J. Brill on 5 pages
- The Fighting Cheyennes by George Bird Grinnell on 4 pages
- Following the Guidon by Elizabeth B. Custer in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Cheyenne Autumn by Mari Sandoz in Front Matter
- "Boots and Saddles" Or, Life in Dakota With General Custer by Elizabeth B. Custer in Front Matter
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