Slim Buttes, 1876: An Episode of the Great Sioux War

by Jerome A. Greene

Book Overview

General George Crook's controversial "Horsemeat March" culminating in the battle at Slim Buttes is considered the turning point of the Sioux Wars. After Lieutenant General George A. Custer's shocking defeat at the Little Big Horn River, Montana Territory, in 1876, General Crook and the men of this Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition were given orders to pursue and subjugate restive tribes of the Northern Cheyenne and Teton Sioux Indians in the area...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806122617
• ISBN13: 9780806122618
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"