The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge
Contributors: Wayne R. Kime (Editor)
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: October 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780806132570
Subjects: Biography: historical; Biography: political; Geographical discovery & exploration; History; Indigenous peoples; Military life & institutions; Indian Territory; Cheyenne Indians; Native Americans - Plains; Military; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Historical - U.S.; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Diaries; Arapaho Indians; Indians of North America; Native American; Historical - General; 1827-1895; Dodge, Richard Irving,
First sentence: ON THE NIGHT OF SEPTEMBER 9, 1878, A BODY OF 353 Northern Cheyenne Indians slipped away from their encampment not far from the Cheyenne and Arapaho agency, in Indian Territory, beginning a desperate journey away from reservation life and toward their ancestral homeland in the northern plains and mountains.