Cheyenne warriors put up stiff residence to Westward expansion and they were among the most hostile of Native tribesmen that resisted American expansion. The 1850s saw the beginning of the great plaines wars fought between the American army and certain tribes of the great Plaines and the Cheyenne were Constantly in the mix of the fighting with other Indians there are not as many books that recent these conflicts but there is one that details one campaign as much as a book can and it is written by William Chalfant. He covers just about everything that occured in the summer of 1857 as the US army sent an expedition to punish the Indians for their increasing attacks on immigrant trains that were littering their lands. The discovery of gold turned what was a trickle of migrants on the o,d Santa Fe trail into a flood and the Natives quickly resented this intrusion onto their lands . This book talks of the ego n g troubles with the Cheyenne as a misunderstanding about the slaughter of one cow lead a hothead lieutenant to get his small detailed massacred after firing on the Cheyenne in what wold be known as the Grattan massacre.
The army wold avenge his a year later and the seeds for further hostility on the Plaines were set not too differencing what is happening now days with police and inner city black populations. The Cheyennes would not forget this battle of Blue water which was a one sided massacre of ninety Native Americans and the rest of the book is an intensive account of an early Army punitive expedition that this historian details totally in neat illustrations throughout the book. He illustrations add something to what is a pretty dull book and look at the monotonous of army preparatory marches and searches that the US Army and Pawnee allies participated looking for this elusive tribe leading into the battle of Solomon Forks. This was a minor but inquest battle of all Indian wars between red and White and was the only large unit saber civil war attack on a large army of Indians as the two forces charged into one another. An exemplary look at a summer campaign against hostile Indians of the West.
The army wold avenge his a year later and the seeds for further hostility on the Plaines were set not too differencing what is happening now days with police and inner city black populations. The Cheyennes would not forget this battle of Blue water which was a one sided massacre of ninety Native Americans and the rest of the book is an intensive account of an early Army punitive expedition that this historian details totally in neat illustrations throughout the book. He illustrations add something to what is a pretty dull book and look at the monotonous of army preparatory marches and searches that the US Army and Pawnee allies participated looking for this elusive tribe leading into the battle of Solomon Forks. This was a minor but inquest battle of all Indian wars between red and White and was the only large unit saber civil war attack on a large army of Indians as the two forces charged into one another. An exemplary look at a summer campaign against hostile Indians of the West.
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