Fort Laramie and the Great Sioux War

Founded in 1834 on the high plains of present-day eastern Wyoming. Fort Laramie evolved into an organizational hub and chief supply center for the U.S. Army in its campaigns against the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians. Fort Laramie and the Great Sioux War focuses on a crucial year in the history of the fort, 1876. That was the year of General George Crook’s Big Horn; the Black Hills gold rush; and chaos at the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Indian agencies. Paul Hedren draws upon official army records, diaries, and journals to illuminate a fort-based history of the Great Sioux War, and for this edition he also provides a new preface.

• First Scalp for Custer: The Skirmish at Warbonnet Creek, Nebraska, July 17, 1876 (Bison Book)
• Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West, 1834-1890
• White Hat: The Military Career of Captain William Philo Clark
• Fort Laramie in 1876: Chronicle of a Frontier Post at War
• The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee (Studies in North American Indian History)
• With Crook at the Rosebud (Abridged, Annotated)
• Great Sioux War Orders of Battle: How the United States Army Waged War on the Northern Plains, 1876-1877 (Frontier Military)
• After Custer: Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country
• Rosebud, June 17, 1876: Prelude to the Little Big Horn
• Traveler's Guide to the Great Sioux War: The Battlefields, Forts, and Related Sites of America's Greatest Indian War