| Similar Articles |
|---|
 |
Wild West
July 3, 2004
J. Jay Myers |
Tecumseh, Red Cloud and Sitting Bull: Three Great Indian Leaders Diplomacy, courage and charisma were among the attributes of this trio of great Indian leaders.   |
Wild West
August 2005
Robert Nightengale |
Custer's Last Stand Still Stands Up Although George Custer may have made some mistakes at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, he had a solid plan that summer day in 1876 and might have defeated Sitting Bull and allies had two subordinate officers obeyed his orders. |
Wild West
McCune & Hart |
The Fatal Fetterman Fight Called a massacre at the time, the December 1866 clash near Fort Phil Kearny was, in fact, a military triumph by the Plains Indians and the Army's greatest blunder in the West until the Battle of the Little Bighorn 10 years later. |
Wild West
February 2006
John D. McDermott |
Brule Sioux Chief Spotted Tail Spotted Tail, chief of the Brules, showed much martial prowess in his younger days, only to became a highly respected peace chief. But he was not destined to die peacefully. |
American History
December 2005
Charles Phillips |
Wounded Knee Massacre The intermittent war between the United States and the Plains Indians that stretched across some three decades after the Civil War came to an end on December 29, 1890, at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. |
Wild West
July 3, 2004
Sierra Adare |
Fort Laramie: Gateway to the Far West The fort, which became a military post 150 years ago, protected and supplied emigrants headed to the West Coast and was the site of several historic peace conferences between the northern tribes and the U.S. government. |
Wild West
Robert Benjamin Smith |
Buffalo Bill's Skirmish At Warbonnet Creek Three weeks after the disaster at the Little Bighorn, Buffalo Bill claimed he had taken 'the first scalp for Custer!' And soon the famous scout was doing it all over again on the stage. |
Wild West
L. Robert Pyle |
Cheyenne Chief Tall Bull Tall Bull led the Dog Soldiers in battle, but his death at Summit Springs ended Southern Cheyenne power. |
Wild West
July 3, 2004
Nancy M. Peterson |
Interpreter Philip Wells: Wounded at Wounded Knee The son of a white father and a half-blood mother, Wells nearly lost his nose in the tragic 1890 affair but still managed to be merciful. |
Wild West
February 2006
John D. McDermott |
Brule Sioux Spotted Tail's Pledge of Peace War and a terrible winter were fresh memories when the tearful Spotted Tail was allowed to bury his daughter at Fort Laramie. This helped convince the Brule Sioux leader to bury the hatchet forever. |
Wild West
December 2006 |
Letters from Readers Plenty of Gall... & Some Little Crow... Untimely Mistake... |
American History
June 2006
Louis Kraft |
George Armstrong Custer: Changing Views of an American Legend Although he was already a popular figure in his own time, the disaster that doomed George Armstrong Custer on the Little Bighorn forever secured his place in the American mind and mythology. |
Wild West
July 3, 2004
Jeff Broome |
Death at Summit Springs: Susanna Alderdice and the Cheyennes In May 1869, Tall Bull's Cheyenne Dog Soldiers carried out a series of brutal raids in north-central Kansas, and though the white soldiers later caught up with them, vengeance could not make everything right. |
Wild West
John F. Murphy, Jr. |
Long March of Lewis and Clark For 28 arduous and danger-filled months, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the longest armed reconnaissance in military history. |
Smithsonian
May 2006
Tony Perrottet |
Destination America: Mount Rushmore With a Native American superintendent, the South Dakota monument is becoming much more than a shrine to four presidents. |
Outside
October 2002
Bill Vaughn |
The Snow on the Sweetgrass For newcomers -- meaning most of us -- they are merely picturesque. But for Native Americans, the sacred places of the Great Plains and Northern Rockies are alive with centuries of memory and meaning -- and something much, much bigger. |
Wild West
July 3, 2004
G. Sam Carr |
Sioux Chief's Ghost Dance Revival Two years after Wounded Knee, Chief Two Sticks was Ghost Dancing and more. |
Civil War Times
Mar/Apr 2006
Jeffry D. Wert |
George Custer: Between Myth and Reality George Armstrong Custer stalks America's past with a disturbing presence. Reality and myth about him still collide on the battlefields of Virginia and Pennsylvania. |
Smithsonian
May 2006
Owen Edwards |
War and Remembrance An Indian artist's traditional tribute honors Native American soldiers who served in Vietnam. |
