Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
2006
Abstract
At dawn on November 27, 1868, Lt. Col. George A. Custer led troopers of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry in an attack on the village of Black Kettle, a Southern Cheyenne peace chief. Custer's men thundered across the frozen, snow encrusted bottom land of the Washita River in what is now Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, surprising and defeating the Cheyennes. In this book the author describes the circumstances that led to this pivotal event and its consequences.
Comments
Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 26:2 (Spring 2006). Copyright © 2006 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.