Custer, Black Kettle, and the fight on the Washita
By: Charles J. Brill ; foreword by Mark L. Gardner.
Edition: Red River books ed.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press; Red River Books/University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Norman, Okla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876; Black Kettle, Cheyenne chief, d. 1868; Washita Campaign, 1868-1869
Description: Using Cheyenne and Arapaho accounts, Charles 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 banks of the Washita River. Brill provides the Indian point of view as he follows Custer into a battle that remains controversial to the present day.
Notes: Originally published: Conquest of the Southern Plains. Oklahoma City : Golden Saga Publishers, c1938.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Wanted-Jobs for Generals; title: 1 George Armstrong Custer; title: 2 Black Kettle and Other Chiefs; title: 3 Creating New War Clouds; title: 4 The Last "Scrap of Paper"; title: 5 Organizing the Washita Campaign; title: 6 Along the Washita; title: 7 On to the Washita; title: 8 The Washita Massacre; title: 9 Clearing the Washita; title: 10 Putting Custer on the Spot; title: 11 Custer Breaks Faith; title: 12 Echoes of the Washita.