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Red Cloud's War (1866-1868) was a conflict between the Lakota Sioux-Cheyenne-Arapaho alliance and the US government over the westward expansion of the United States into the Powder River territory. It was the only war won by the Plains Indians...

King Philip's Death Site - Bristol, Rhode Island - Metacomet was also known as King Philip. He was a leader of the Wampanoag tribe. After some peaceful co-existence with the Pilgrims, conflict broke out in 1675. It became known as King Philip's...

Spotted Tail (Sinte Galeska, l. 1823-1881) was a Brule Lakota Sioux chief best known for choosing diplomacy over military conflict in dealing with the US government's policy of expansion in the 19th century. Although he became a respected...

Eastman's biography of Red Cloud (l. 1822-1909) is the first narrative of his Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains (1916), and it sets the tone for those that follow, including the pieces on Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, in explaining the motivation...

Fall of Maximilien Robespierre on the floor of the National Convention, 27 July 1794 (9 Thermidor Year II). Oil on canvas by Max Adamo, 1870. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

Colonel Henry B. Carrington (l. 1824-1912), commander of the garrison of Fort Phil Kearny during Red Cloud's War. Photo by an unknown photographer, 1861. Published in My Army life and the Fort Phil. Kearney massacre, with an account of...

Learn how Adolph Metzger, a young German immigrant, served as a bugler and made an impression on the native warriors in Wyoming. Special thanks goes out to the folks at the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum in Buffalo, Wyoming for allowing...

Goddess Ishtar, Mesopotamia, Babylonian, c. 2000 BCE, Terracotta. The Phil Berg Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Captain William J. Fetterman (l. c. 1833-1866), best known for the Battle of the Hundred-in-the-Hands/The Fetterman Massacre in which he and 80 soldiers under his command were killed by the Sioux-Cheyenne-Arapaho alliance on 21 December 1866...

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