Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
March 2000
Abstract
The Army established Fort Robinson near the source of the White River on the Pine Ridge in northwestern Nebraska in 1874. The post saw active service in the best known war between the United States and Plains Natives, the Sioux War of 1876, and was the site of the death of Crazy Horse. It also witnessed the tragic Cheyenne outbreak of January 1878, the bloodiest episode in the post's history. This book, the first of a projected two-volume study, covers these events and the next two decades, during which the United States emerged as an imperial power.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly, Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 2000, p. 164. © 2000 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska – Lincoln.