Custer, Black Kettle, and The Fight on the Washita

by Mark Lee Gardner and Charles J. Brill

Using Cheyenne and Arapaho accounts, Charles J. Brill tells the story of General George Armstrong Custer's winter campaign on the southern plains in 1868-69, including his attack on Black Kettle's village on the snowy backs of the Washita River. Brill's searing account details the ruthlessness of the U.S. Army's efforts to punish southern plains tribes for what they considered incessant raiding and depredation. Brill provides the Indian point of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080613416X
• ISBN13: 9780806134161
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"