Author: BUTLER, GENERAL SIR WILLIAM F.
Title: Red Cloud. A Tale of the Great Prairie.
Description: London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd, nd. (c.1907). Story for boys relating the author's experiences in Canada and his failure to defeat the Sioux Chief Red Cloud. Pp.xii (Foreword by Robert Baden Powell) / 332, black & white frontispiece + 7 further black & white plates by George Lambert, spotting to closed page edges and final page. Red boards, spine faded, chipped wear to top and tail of spine. Good.**Red Cloud (1822 –1909) was a leader of the Oglala Lakota from 1865 to 1909.[He was one of the most capable Native American opponents whom the United States Army faced in the western territories. He defeated the United States during Red Cloud's War, which was a fight over control of the Powder River Country in northeastern Wyoming and southern Montana. The largest action of the war was the 1866 Fetterman Fight, with 81 US soldiers killed; it was the worst military defeat suffered by the US Army on the Great Plains until the Battle of the Little Bighorn 10 years later.

Keywords: General Sir William Butler Red Cloud Boys Adventure Story Biography Great Prairie Oglala Lakota Native American Canada Powder River Wyoming Montana Fetterman Fight Historical Fiction 52185 Fiction: : Historical


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