Morning Star Dawn
Subtitle: The Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876 (Campaigns and Commanders, 2)
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: August 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780806135489
Subjects: Modern fiction; Wars, 1876; Military; History; History - General History; United States - 19th Century/Old West; Native American; Military - General; Military - United States; Dull Knife Battle, Wyo., 1876; 1840-1889; Cheyenne Indians; Mackenzie, Ranald Slidell,
First sentence: ON A MID-SEPTEMBER DAY IN 1876, a column of more than two thousand battle-weary U.S. soldiers pulled up along the banks of the Belle Fourche River in what is now western South Dakota.
Description: "From a recognized authority on the High Plains Indian wars comes this narrative history blending both American Indian and U.S. Army perspectives on the attack that destroyed the village of Northern Cheyenne Chief Morning Star. Of momentous significance for the Cheyennes as well as the army, this November 1876 encounter, coming exactly six months to the day after the Custer debacle at the Little Bighorn, was part of the Powder River Expedition waged by Brigadier General George Crook against the Indians. Vital to the larger context of the Great Sioux War, the attack on Morning Star's village encouraged the eventual surrender of Crazy Horse and his Sioux followers. Unbiased in its delivery, Jerome Greene's Morning Star Dawn offers the most thorough modern scholarly assessment of the Powder River Expedition. It incorporates previously unsynthesized data from the National Archives, the Library of Congress, the U.S. Army Military History Institute, and other repositories, and provides an examination of all facets of the campaign leading to and following the destruction of Morning Star's village"--Jacket.