Summary
In 1866, Lakota Sioux chief Red Cloud unites fractious Native American tribes in a desperate battle against encroaching Europeans.
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"Dramatic tragedy...told in meticulously accurate, unsparingly gruesome detail by an eminent military historian....A microscopic examination that sets the entire Indian conflict in new light: gritty, evenhanded, starkly unsentimental view of good intentions-on both sides-gone bad."
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Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published date: 2002
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.5 pounds
Pages: 398
Publisher's Notes
In the wake of the Civil War, strife continues in the West between the Native American tribes, encroaching settlers, and the U.S. Army, as Red Cloud, a Lakota Sioux war leader, unites the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Crow in order to preserve their territory.
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