The Long War for the Northern Plains

by Cozzens, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780811700801
• ISBN10: 0811700801
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Stackpole Books

Summary

In the years after the Civil War, the American West was still an untamed frontier, a fierce battleground where the preservation of law and order was nearly impossible. Following the mining boom, land-hungry settlers flooded west, but were impeded by the unwillingness of native peoples to relinquish the territory they had held for generations. Antagonism between the Indians and settlers soon escalated into violent clashes, necessitating the intervention of the U.S. military and sparking the so-called "Indian Wars." Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: The Long War for the Northern Plains is the fourth of a five-volume series that seeks to tell the saga of the military struggle for the American West in the words of the soldiers, non-combatants, and Native Americans who shaped it. This volume offers as representative a selection of original accounts pertaining to the Indian wars and campaigns of the Northern Plains as can be assembled under one cover.

Author Biography

Peter Cozzens is a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Maps	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Platte River Bridge and the Powder River Expedition, 1865
The 11th Kansas Regiment at Platte Bridge	p. 2
The Powder River Indian Campaign of 1865	p. 13
Raiding a Hostile Village	p. 43
An Interview with General Connor	p. 45
A Fifteen Day Fight on Tongue River	p. 49
Red Cloud's War, 1866-68
A Bloody Prospecting Trip in the Bighorn Mountains	p. 58
The Forgotten Battalion	p. 64
Cold Cheer at Fort Kearny	p. 79
A Detail of the Fetterman Massacre	p. 81
Letters from Fort Phil Kearny	p. 84
The Murder of John Bozeman	p. 88
Indian Affairs in the Powder River Country	p. 90
The Wagon Box Fight	p. 93
An Indian Perspective on the Wagon Box Fight	p. 101
The Yellowstone Expedition, 1873
Battling with the Sioux on the Yellowstone	p. 104
With General George A. Custer on the Northern Pacific Surveying Expedition in 1873	p. 120
The Yellowstone Expedition of 1873	p. 128
Crossing the Big Muddy [Creek]	p. 150
The Black Hills and Beyond, 1874-76
The Black Hills Expedition: Dispatches and Letters	p. 156
The Black Hills Expedition	p. 172
Reminiscences of the Black Hills Expedition	p. 176
Story Told by Strikes Two and Bear's Belly of an Expedition under Custer to the Black Hills in 1874	p. 179
A Winter March to the Black Hills	p. 183
The Black Hills	p. 188
The Sun Dance of the Sioux	p. 192
"Alter Ego" on the Powder River Expedition	p. 200
A Review of the Reynolds Campaign	p. 227
The Summer Campaign of 1876
Military Notes, 1876	p. 236
The War Path	p. 250
Brave Boys Are They: The Newspaper Correspondents with Crook's Army	p. 261
From Fort Fetterman to the Rosebud	p. 265
Custer's Last Battle	p. 282
The Indian Version of Custer's Last Battle	p. 299
On the Little Bighorn with General Custer	p. 310
Reminiscences of the Reno Fight	p. 338
Captain Benteen's Command	p. 341
Thrilling Experience Near the Custer Battlefield	p. 343
Terry and Crook	p. 345
With Crook's Expedition	p. 350
Dispatches from Crook's Column	p. 367
The Battle of Slim Buttes	p. 378
The Fellows in Feathers: An Interview with General Crook	p. 385
Terry's Tribulations	p. 391
The Winter Campaign of 1876-77
The Dull Knife Fight	p. 414
Rounding Up the Red Men	p. 431
Winter Campaigning against Indians in Montana in 1876	p. 442
Terror of the Badlands: The Sioux Expedition, Montana Territory, 1876 and 1877	p. 451
Campaigning against Crazy Horse	p. 463
The Odyssey of the Northern Cheyennes, 1871-90
Some Experiences with the Cheyennes	p. 470
A Finish Fight for a Birthright	p. 482
Across the Country with the Cheyennes	p. 515
The Death of Crazy Horse, 1877
The Capture and Death of an Indian Chieftain	p. 528
The Murder of Chief Crazy Horse	p. 542
The Death of Crazy Horse	p. 549
The Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee, 1890-91
The Story of the Ghost Dance	p. 554
The Wounded Knee and Drexel Mission Fights	p. 559
The Indian Troubles and the Battle of Wounded Knee	p. 578
The True Story of the Death of Sitting Bull	p. 597
The Sioux Outbreak in South Dakota	p. 607
The Surrender of Red Cloud	p. 611
The Battle of Wounded Knee Creek	p. 615
Personal Recollections of the Messiah Craze Campaign	p. 620
Short Bull's Story of the Battle of Wounded Knee	p. 630
Notes	p. 637
Index	p. 679
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