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Autobiography of Red Cloud : war leader of the Oglalas / edited by R. Eli Paul.
- Title
- Autobiography of Red Cloud : war leader of the Oglalas / edited by R. Eli Paul.
- Author
- Allen, Charles Wesley, 1851-1942.
- Publication
- Helena, Mont. : Montana Historical Society Press, c1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | E99.O3 R372 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xv, 220 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Red cloud-the only Native American leader ever to win a war against the United States Army. In the 1860s he destroyed Captain William J. Fetterman's command, closed the Bozeman Trail, and forced the United States to a peace conference. A brilliant military strategist, Red Cloud honed his skills against his tribes' traditional enemies-the Pawnees, Shoshones, Arikaras, and Crows-long before he fought to close the Bozeman Trail." -- Back cover
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Note
- Written by Charles Wesley Allen from Red Cloud's reminiscences told to Sam Deon, and repeated to Allen.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The coming chief -- Ambush -- War with the Omahas -- Raid on the Crows -- Shoshones -- Shooting Bull Bear -- Raid on the Pawnees -- Marriage -- Failure -- Scalped alive -- The pipe dance -- To whip a dog -- Decoying the Crows -- Escape by boat -- Revenge -- The snake fort -- Traders -- The whiskey peddler -- The lost children -- Sword's death in battle -- End of the story.
- ISBN
- 0917298497 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0917298500 (paper : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^96052849^
- OCLC
- 36066135
- SCSB-11698705
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library