"Death on the Prairie" is a sweeping narrative history of the
Indian wars on the western plains that never loses sight of the
individual actors. Beginning with the Minnesota Sioux Uprising in
1862, Paul I. Wellman shifts to conflicts in present-day Wyoming,
Montana, Idaho, Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, and South Dakota,
involving, most spectacularly, the Sioux, but also the Cheyennes,
Arapahos, Comanches, Kiowas, Utes, and Nez Perces--all being ezed
out of their hunting grounds by white settlers. There is never a
quiet page as Wellman describes the Sand Creek Massacre (1864), the
Fetterman Massacre (1866), the Battle of the Washita (1868), the
Battle of Adobe Walls (1874), the Battle of the Little Big Horn
(1876), the Nez Perce War (1877), the Meeker Massacre (1879), and
the tragedy at wounded Knee (1890) that ended the fighting on the
plains. Celebrated chiefs (Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Black Kettle,
Satanta, Joseph, Ouray, Sitting Bull) clash with army officers
(notably Custer, Sheridan, Miles, and Crook), and uncounted men,
women, and children on both sides are cast in roles of fatal
consequence.
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