Synopses & Reviews
In previous accounts, the U.S. Armyandrsquo;s first clashes with the powerful Sioux tribe appear as a set of irrational events with a cast of improbable charactersandmdash;a Mormon cow, a brash lieutenant, a drunken interpreter, an unfortunate Brulandeacute; chief, and an incorrigible army commander. R. Eli Paul shows instead that the events that precipitated General William Harneyandrsquo;s attack on Chief Little Thunderandrsquo;s Brulandeacute; village foreshadowed the entire history of conflict between the United States and the Lakota people.
Today Blue Water Creek is merely one of many modest streams coursing through Sioux country. The conflicts along its margins have been overshadowed by later, more spectacular confrontations, including the Great Sioux War and George Custerandrsquo;s untimely demise along another modest stream. The Blue Water legacy has gone largely underappreciatedandmdash;until now. Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 1854-1856 provides a thorough and objective narrative, using a wealth of eyewitness accounts to reveal the significance of Blue Water Creek in Lakota and U.S. history.
Synopsis
Today Blue Water Creek is merely one of many modest streams coursing through Sioux country. The conflicts along its margins have been overshadowed by later, more spectacular confrontations, including the Great Sioux War and George Custerandrsquo;s untimely demise along another modest stream. The Blue Water legacy has gone largely underappreciatedandmdash;until now. Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 1854-1856 provides a thorough and objective narrative, using a wealth of eyewitness accounts to reveal the significance of Blue Water Creek in Lakota and U.S. history.
About the Author
R. Eli Paul, Museum Director of the Liberty Memorial Museum of World War One in Kansas City, Missouri, is author and editor of four books on Native American subjects.