A Punitive March Turns Into A Saber Charge On The Kansas Frontier
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The episode explores the Cheyenne Campaign of 1857 and its significance in the conflict between the U.S. Army and the Plains Indians.
Send us Fan Mail A river can look calm and still be a trap. We drop into the Solomon River valley in 1857, where the U.S. Army launches what many consider the first true campaign against the Plains Indians in this series: the Cheyenne Campaign of 1857, better known as the Battle of Solomon Fork in northwest Kansas. The stakes are bigger than a single clash. This is the collision between a mobile Cheyenne world built on buffalo hunting, raiding, and shifting boundaries and a United States dete...
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