Red Cloud and the Sioux Problem
Red Cloud and the Sioux Problem

Author: James C. Olson

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1965-01-01

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780803258174

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From the mid-1860s until the end of organized resistance on the Great Plains, Red Cloud, the noted Oglala Sioux, epitomized for many the Indian problem. Centered on Red Cloud?s career, this is an admirably impartial, circumstantial, and rigorously documented study of the relations between the Sioux and the United States government during the years after the Civil War.

Red Cloud
Red Cloud

Author:

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1999-09-01

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780806131894

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Places the information about the Lakota chief's life within the larger context of Indian tribal conflicts and Anglo-Indian wars

Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed
Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed

Author: John H. Monnett

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780826345042

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The Powder Ridge country of north central Wyoming was one of the most resource-rich regions of the northern plains in the nineteenth-century. As U.S. mining interests and white settlement to the north of the Montana Territory increased, conflict arose between the United States and the Lakota and Cheyenne nations. On December 21, 1866, the struggle climaxed when a well-organized force of Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapahos attacked and destroyed a detachment of infantrymen. The Battle of Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed or Hundred in the Hand, as the event is still called, was the worst defeat the U.S. Army had suffered in the Great Plains, only to be exceeded by the battle of Little Big Horn ten years later.

Red Cloud's War: Springtime in the Rockies
Red Cloud's War: Springtime in the Rockies

Author: John Dishon McDermott

Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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McDermott recounts how the discovery of gold in Montana in 1863 led to the opening of the 250-mile route from Fort Laramie to the goldfields near Virginia City, and the fortification of this route with three military posts. The road crossed the Powder River Basin, the last, best hunting grounds of the Northern Plains tribes. Oglala chief Red Cloud and his allies mounted a campaign of armed resistance against the army and Montana-bound settlers. Among a host of small but bloody clashes were such major battles as the Fetterman Disaster, the Wagon Box Fight, and the Hayfield Fight, all of them famous in the annals of the Indian Wars. McDermott's spellbinding narrative offers a cautionary tale of hubris and mis-calculation. The United States Army suffered one setback after another; what reputation for effectiveness it had gained during the Civil War dissipated in the skirmishing in faraway Big Horn country.