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Cheyennes at Dark Water Creek tells the tragic story of the southern bands of Cheyennes from the period following the Treaty of Medicine Lodge through the battles and skirmishes known as the Red River War. The Battle of Sappa Creek, the last encounter of that conflict, was a fight between a band of Cheyennes and a company of the Sixth Cavalry that took place in Kansas in April 1875. More Cheyennes were killed in that single engagement than in all the previous fighting of the war combined, and later there were controversial charges of massacre-and worse. William Y. Chalfant has used all known contemporaneous sources to recound the tragedy that occurred at the place known to the Cheyennes as Dark Water Creek. In Cheyenne memories, its name remains second only to Sand Creek in the terrible images and the sorrow it evokes.Chalfant tells the story in a sweeping style that recreates Cheyenne life on the southern plains. Beyond examining firsthand and secoundary accounts in detail, the author personally retraced the route of the army detachment from Fort Wallace, Kansas, to the battle site at Sappa Creek, and the route of the Cheyennes from Punished Womens Fork to the Sappa. His recounting of the lives of the Indian and military participants, both leading up to and following the battle, is sure to appeal both to scholars of the Indian wars and to the general reader.

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title:Cheyennes At Dark Water Creek : The Last Fight of the Red River War
author:Chalfant, William Y.
publisher:University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin:0806128755
print isbn13:9780806128757
ebook isbn13:9780806171395
language:English
subjectSappa Creek (Kan. and Neb.), Battle of, 1875, Cheyenne Indians--Wars, Cheyenne Indians--Government relations, Cheyenne Indians--Government policy, Massacres--Kansas--Rawlins County--History--19th century, United States.--Army.--Cavalry, 6th--History.
publication date:1997
lcc:E83.875.C48 1997eb
ddc:973.8/2
subject:Sappa Creek (Kan. and Neb.), Battle of, 1875, Cheyenne Indians--Wars, Cheyenne Indians--Government relations, Cheyenne Indians--Government policy, Massacres--Kansas--Rawlins County--History--19th century, United States.--Army.--Cavalry, 6th--History.
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Cheyennes at Dark Water Creek
The Last Fight of the Red River War
By
William Y. Chalfant
Foreword by Father Peter John Powell
Illustrations by Mont David Williams
Maps by William L. Nelson
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS : NORMAN AND LONDON
Page iv
By William Y. Chalfant
Cheyennes and Horse Soldiers: The 1857 Expedition and the Battle of Solomon's Fork (Norman, 1989)
Without Quarter: The Wichita Expedition and the Fight on Crooked Creek (Norman, 1991)
Dangerous Passage: The Santa Fe Trail and the Mexican War (Norman, 1994)
Cheyennes at Dark Water Creek: The Last Fight of the Red River War (Norman, 1997)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chalfant, William Y. (William Young), 1928
Cheyennes at Dark Water Creek: the last fight of the Red River
War / by William Y. Chalfant; foreword by Father Peter John
Powell; illustrations by Mont David Williams; maps by William L.
Nelson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8061-2875-5 (alk. paper)
1. Sappa Creek (Kan. and Neb.), Battle of, 1875. 2. Cheyenne
IndiansWars. 3. Cheyenne IndiansGovernment relations
4. Cheyenne IndiansGovernment policy. 5. Massacres
KansasRawlins CountyHistory19th century. 6. United
States. Army. Cavalry, 6thHistory. I. Title.
E83.875.C48 1997
973.8'2dc21Picture 2Picture 3Picture 4Picture 5Picture 696-46290
Picture 7Picture 8Picture 9Picture 10Picture 11Picture 12CIP
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc.
Copyright 1997 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Page v
For Martha Anne,
my wife, my love,
and my best friend
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Contents
List of Illustrations
ix
Foreword
by Father Peter John Powell
xiii
Prologue
xv
Chapter 1
War Returns
3
Chapter 2
The End of Freedom
15
Chapter 3
The Reservation
26
Chapter 4
The War to Save the Buffalo
34
Chapter 5
Escape
52
Chapter 6
The Flight for Freedom
60
Chapter 7
Pursuit
93
Chapter 8
Discovery
106
Chapter 9
Attack
112
Chapter 10
The Fight
123
Chapter 11
Aftermath
136

Page viii
Chapter 12
Massacre?
147
Epilogue
160
Appendices
177
Notes
201
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