Best known for his role in the arrest and killing of Crazy Horse
and for the book he wrote, The Indian Sign Language, Captain
William Philo Clark (1845-1884) was one of the Old Army's
renaissance men, by turns administrator, fighter, diplomat,
explorer, and ethnologist. As such, Clark found himself at center
stage during some of the most momentous events of the post-Civil
War West: from Brigadier General George Crook's infamous
""Starvation March"" to the Battle of Slim Buttes and the Dull
Knife Fight, then to the attack against the Bannocks at Index Peak
and Sitting Bull's final fight against the U.S. Army. Captain
Clark's life story, here chronicled in full for the first time, is
at once an introduction to a remarkable figure in the annals of
nineteenth-century U.S. history, and a window on the exploits of
the U.S. Army on the contested western frontier. White Hat follows
Clark from his upbringing in New York State to his life as a West
Point cadet, through his varied army posts on the northern plains,
and finally to his stint in Lieutenant General Philip Sheridan's
headquarters first in Chicago and later in Washington, D.C. Along
the way, Mark J. Nelson sets the record straight on Clark's
controversial relationship with Crazy Horse during the Lakota
leader's time at Camp Robinson, Nebraska. His book also draws a
detailed picture of Clark's service at Fort Keogh, Montana
Territory, including what is arguably his greatest success - the
securing of Northern Cheyenne leader Little Wolf's peaceful
surrender. In telling Clark's story, White Hat illuminates the
history of the nineteenth-century American military and the Great
Plains, including the Grand Duke Alexis's buffalo hunt, the Great
Sioux War, and the careers of Crook and Sheridan. Nelson's
examination of Clark's early years in the army offers a rare look
at the experiences of a staff officer stationed on the frontier and
expands our view of the army, as well as the United States'
westward march.
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