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001 1977482
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008 961001s1997 okuab b s001 0 eng
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050 00 $aE83.875$b.C48 1997
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100 1 $aChalfant, William Y.$q(William Young),$d1928-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88263670
245 10 $aCheyennes at Dark Water Creek :$bthe last fight of the Red River War /$cby William Y. Chalfant ; foreword by Father Peter John Powell ; illustrations by Mont David Williams ; maps by William L. Nelson.
260 $aNorman, OK :$bUniversity of Oklahoma Press,$c1997.
263 $a9701
300 $axi, 232 pages :$bmaps, illustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aCheyennes 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.
520 8 $aMore Cheyennes were killed in that single engagement than in all the previous fighting of the war combined, and later there were controversial charges of massacre - and worse. William Y. Chalfant has used all known contemporaneous sources to recount the tragedy that occurred at the place known to the Cheyennes as Dark Water Creek. In Cheyenne memories, its name remains second only to Sand Creek in the terrible images and the sorrow it evokes.
520 8 $aChalfant tells the story in a sweeping style that recreates Cheyenne life on the southern plains. Beyond examining firsthand and secondary accounts in detail, the author personally retraced the route of the army detachment from Fort Wallace, Kansas, to the battle site at Sappa Creek, and the route of the Cheyennes from Punished Woman's Fork to the Sappa.
520 8 $aHis recounting of the lives of the Indian and military participants, both leading up to and following the battle, is sure to appeal both to scholars of the Indian wars and to the general reader.
650 0 $aSappa Creek, Battle of, Kan., 1875.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96009983
650 0 $aCheyenne Indians$xWars.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023189
650 0 $aCheyenne Indians$xGovernment relations.
650 0 $aCheyenne Indians$xGovernment policy.
650 0 $aMassacres$zKansas$zRawlins County$xHistory$y19th century.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bArmy.$bCavalry, 6th$xHistory.
852 00 $bglx$hE83.875$i.C48 1997