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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. |
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 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 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 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 J. Jay Myers |
The Notorious Fight At Sand Creek More often called a massacre than a battle, the attack by Colonel John M. Chivington's Colorado volunteers on Chief Black Kettle's village will forever be controversial. |
Wild West June 2006 Robert W. Larson |
Sioux Chief Gall: In the Shadow of Sitting Bull Soldiers gave the Hunkpapa leader his nickname because he was a dashing warrior who effectively teamed up with Sitting Bull in the 1870s. But after his surrender in 1881, Gall stood up for cooperation and peace at Standing Rock. |
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 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 December 2005 Gregory Michno |
Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle is usually portrayed as a man of peace, a visionary and more, but is that the stuff of legend and myth? |
Wild West Robert Foster |
Buffalo Soldiers in Utah Territory At Fort Duchesne, black 9th Cavalry troops served alongside white infantrymen while dealing with the sometimes restless Ute Indians and the wild and woolly Duchesne Strip. |
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. |
Mother Jones December 2000 Verlyn Klinkenborg |
The Conscience of Place: Sand Creek National Park Service archaeologists recently established the location where the Colorado Calvary slaughtered more than 125 Cheyennes and Arapahos in 1864... |
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 December 6, 2004 Wayne R. Austerman |
Bold Rally Against the Odds at Fort Lancaster Captain William Frohock, Lieutenant Frederick Smith and the black troopers of Company K, 9th Cavalry, received an after-Christmas surprise from Kickapoo raiders in 1867. |
America's Civil War March 10, 2005 Fred L. Ray |
Pre-Dawn Assault on Fort Stedman Led by select groups of sharpshooters, the weary, muddy troops of the Army of Northern Virginia made one last desperate push to break out of Petersburg. |
America's Civil War Ronald E. Bullock |
Last-Ditch Rebel Stand at Petersburg After nearly 10 months of trench warfare, Confederate resistance at Petersburg, Va., suddenly collapsed. Desperate to save his army, Robert E. Lee called on his soldiers for one last miracle. |
Wild West December 2006 |
Letters from Readers Plenty of Gall... & Some Little Crow... Untimely Mistake... |
America's Civil War John D. Pelzer |
The Union's Mission to Relieve Fort Sumter For three long months, Civl War Major Robert Anderson and his besieged troops waited for reinforcements at Fort Sumter. Back in Washington, Union naval officer Gustavus Fox raced against time to organize just such a mission. |
Smithsonian May 2006 Owen Edwards |
War and Remembrance An Indian artist's traditional tribute honors Native American soldiers who served in Vietnam. |