Cheyennes at Dark Water Creek: The Last Fight of the Red River War

by William Y. Chalfant

Book Overview

Cheyennes at Dark Water Creek tells the tragic story of the southern bands of Cheyennes from the period following the Treaty of Medicine Lodge through the battles and skirmishes known as the Red River War. The Battle of Sappa Creek, the last encounter of that conflict, was a fight between a band of Cheyennes and a company of the Sixth Cavalry that took place in Kansas in April 1875. More Cheyennes were killed in that single engagement than in all...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806128755
• ISBN13: 9780806128757
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.8"