Red Cloud Besieges the Powder River Country | Red Cloud's War

Part 1 in Red Cloud's 1867 campaign. It deals with the general strategies and responses taken by the Sioux and American forces as the summer months draw to a close, culminating in the battles of the Hayfield and Wagon Box Fight.


Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:33 The Winter of '66 & '67
3:53 Extending the line of forts
9:28 Indian warfare -- the mutilation of Sgt. F. Wiliams
11:18 War along the Bozeman Trail
15:38 Forts Smith and Kearny besieged
21:31 Sioux sun-dance


Portions of the script are taken from the following works:

The Hayfield Fight: A Reappraisal of a Neglected Action
- Jerome A. Green
Son of the Morning Star
- Evan S. Connell
Frontier Regulars 166-1891
- Robert M. Utley
Death on the Prairie
- Paul I. Wellman
Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians.
- George Catlin
Crazy Horse and Custer: The parallel Lives of two American warriors
- Stephen Ambrose
Myths of the North American Indians
- Lewis Spence
The Indian Wars
- Robert M. Utley & Wilcombe E. Washburn