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G. Joseph Sills Jr. Book Award, Custer Battlefield Historical Museum Association John M. Carroll Award, Best Book relating to Custer, Little Big Horn Associates The Great Sioux War of 1876–77 began at daybreak on March 17, 1876, when Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds and six cavalry companies struck a village of Northern Cheyennes—Sioux allies—thereby propelling the Northern Plains tribes into war. The ensuing last stand of the Sioux against Anglo-American settlement of their homeland spanned some eighteen months, playing out across more than twenty battle and skirmish sites and costing hundreds of lives on both sides and many millions of dollars. And it all began at Powder River. Powder River: Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War recounts the wintertime Big Horn Expedition and its singular great battle, along with the stories of the Northern Cheyennes and their elusive leader Old Bear. Historian Paul Hedren tracks both sides of the conflict through a rich array of primary source material, including the transcripts of Reynolds’s court-martial and Indian recollections. The disarray and incompetence of the war’s beginnings—officers who failed to take proper positions, disregard of orde

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Author

Hedren, Paul L.; Reynolds, Joseph Jones

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780806156132

Category

history

Subjects

History, American Studies, Humanities

Rating

4.6 / 5 (90 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14