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331–33, 367, 381, 411–15, 451–62

Powell, J. N., 293–95

Pretty One (
see also
Woman’s Dress), 46, 76

Puerto Rico, 482

Quaife, Milo, 319

Rappahannock River, 198

Ream, Vinnie, 478

Red Cloud, 51, 76, 141, 155, 160–64, 225–43, 259, 275–76, 292–97, 306–9, 332, 352, 387–96, 454–71, 479, 481

Red Cloud, Jack, 411–12, 422

Red Cloud Agency, 332, 339, 378, 389, 413, 454–71

Red Feather, 135, 335, 356

Red River, 325

Redpath Agency, 400

Reed, Autie, 419, 443

Reed, David, 90–91, 95

Reno, Marcus A., 404, 419–20, 424–46
passim,
478–79

Republican party, 179, 188, 256–57

Republican River, 5, 279

Reynolds, Charley, 375, 425

Reynolds, John F., 116

Richards, Louis, 393

Riesman, David, 89

River Queen
(yacht), 214

Robinson, Amos, 55

Robinson, Doane, 379, 387

Roe, Frank, 7, 17

Roman Nose, 141, 160, 162, 164, 264–65

Roosevelt, Robert, 402

Rosebud River, 416, 420–47
passim

Rosebud Reservation, 481

Rosecrans, William, 461

Rosser, Tom, 114, 203, 360, 366

Sac, 12

St. Louis, 258, 298, 407

St. Louis
Democrat,
325

St. Paul, Minn., 401

St. Paul
Pioneer-Press
, 404

Salaway, Frank, 63

Sand Creek, 146, 150–51, 155

Sand Hills, 68, 154

Sandoz, Mari, 457

Sans Arc, 8, 232–43

Santees, 12, 146, 149

Saratoga, 337

Satanta, 269

Saum, Lewis, 10

Schaff, Morris, 109, 113–14

Scio, Ohio, 257

Scott, Winfield, 172

2nd U. S. Cavalry, 172, 425

2nd Wisconsin Cavalry, 251

7th Iowa Cavalry, 157

7th Michigan Cavalry, 188, 205

7th U. S. Cavalry, 254, 257–58, 263–71, 278–89, 312–23, 338, 347, 357–67, 419–20, 424–47

Seward, William H., 256

Shapp, Benjamin, 466

Shenandoah Valley, 203

Sheridan, Philip H., 202–14, 248, 301, 310–13, 320, 336–38, 343, 346, 375, 405–7, 458, 468, 478, 482

Sheridan, Wyo., 463

Sherman, John, 260

Sherman, William T., 226–31, 247, 279–86, 290–91, 297–99, 305–8, 331, 357, 406, 480

Short Bull, 56, 438

Shoshonis, 53, 131–32, 146, 334–36, 420–23, 482

Simms, William Gilmore, 109

Sioux, 7–14; childhood among, 15–17; cholera epidemic, 52–53; treaties with whites, 53–54, 74, 164, 227–28, 299, 305–9; warfare of, 65–66; Bear Butte council of, 74–76; conflict among, 387–96; at the Little Bighorn, 411–17

Sioux City, Iowa, 380

Sitting Bull, 17, 76, 160, 298, 381, 391, 396, 412–17; described, 351–52; on the Yellowstone, 353–55; at Sun Dance, 416–17; at the Little Bighorn, 436–45; goes to Canada, 451–59; death of, 480

6th Michigan Cavalry, 188

Slim Buttes, 453

Slim Face, 326

Smith, A. J., 289–90

Smith, Jedidiah, 10

Smith, Joseph R., 91

Smith, William F., 169

Smoky Hill River, 51, 267–71

Solomon River, 75

Spirit of Old West Point
(book), 109

Spotted Bear, 394

Spotted Crow, 341

Spotted Deer, 135

Spotted Tail, 38, 69, 72, 76, 154, 157–58, 298, 332, 343–45, 387–95, 454–71
passim
, 481

Spotted Tail Agency, 454–71
passim

Stabber, 378

Standing Elk, 229

Standing Rock Reservation, 482

Stanley, David S., 26, 357–62, 405

Stanley, Henry M., 263, 267–69, 278

Stanton, Edwin, 204–14, 252–56

Stebins, Alfred, 92

Stedman, E. C., 337

Stewart, Edgar, 416

Stuart, J. E. B., 185–86, 203, 212

Sullivant Hills, 235–43

Sully, Alfred, 313

Sumner, E. V., 75

Sun Dance, 50, 158, 275, 416–17

Sweet Medicine, 37

Sweetwater Creek, 325

Sweetwater River, 131

Tabeau, Pierre-Antoine, 10

Tammany Hall, 400

Taylor, Bayard, 336

Taylor, E. B., 228–29

Tecumseh, 145

Ten Eyck, R., 242

Terry, Alfred, 403–5, 418–20, 423–30, 444–46, 452–53

They-Are-Afraid-of-Her, 356, 366, 382

3rd Colorado Volunteers, 151

3rd Division, Cavalry Corps, 188

3rd U. S. Cavalry, 200–11

Thomas, George, 211, 256

Tilden, Samuel J., 400, 407

Toledo, Ohio, 184

Tongue River, 234, 236, 456

Touch-the-Clouds, 76, 389–91, 471–74

Turner, Frederick Jackson, 30

Twain, Mark, 478, 481

Tweed Ring, 400

Twiss, Thomas S., 71–73

Two Face, 156

Two-Kettles, 8

Two Moons, 436, 442, 460

Union Pacific Railroad, 226, 258, 280, 290–91, 345, 372

United States Army, 53, 71, 100, 227–28, 305; in Indian wars, 261–63, 283–84; attitudes toward Indians, 30, 310–11, 321–24; chases Crazy Horse, 452–59

United States Government, Indian policy of, 164, 226–28, 305–9, 322–24, 411–12; steals Black Hills, 374–75, 387–96, 453–54

United States Military Academy,
see
West Point

United States War Department, 147, 155, 204, 397–408

Utley, Robert, 277, 396, 421

Varnum, Charles A., 430

Vestal, Stanley, 354–55

Vicksburg, Miss., 195, 212

Viers, Matilda, 85

Voorhees, R. M., 90

Wade, Benjamin, 114

Wagon Box fight, 293–98

Walker, Leicester, 175

Ware, Eugene F., 152

Warren, Gouverneur K., 77–78

Washakie, 131, 420

Washington, James B., 108–9

Washington, D.C., 172, 204, 213–15

Washita River, 313–24

Watkins, E. C., 396

Wayne, “Mad Anthony,” 27

Webb, Walter, 8

Webster, Noah, 89

Welles, Gideon, 256

Wellington, Duke of, 383

West, Robert M., 265

West Point, 93–95; life at, 99–109; and Civil War, 111–17; effect on Custer of, 121–24

“West Point Protective Association,” 105, 117, 174, 210–11

“Where the Girl Saved Her Brother,” 422

White Bull, 355

White House, 215

White River, 53, 332, 471

White Swan, 387

Whittaker, Frederick, 479

Wiley, Bell, 175, 207

Williams, John, 208

Wilson, James A., 169

Wilson, James Harrison, 211–12

Winchester, Va., 207

Wind River, 131

Wind River Reservation, 482

Winnibigoshish, Lake, 149

Wolf Creek, 315

Wolf Left Hand, 237

Woman’s Dress, 142, 469, 482

Wood, Fernando, 168–69

World War II, 205

Worm (father of Crazy Horse), 39, 42, 77, 81, 139, 341, 374, 381, 459, 473, 477

Wounded Knee, 307, 477, 482

Wynkoop, Edward W., 262–64

Wyuse, 64

Yankton, S.D., 380

Yankton Sioux, 79

Yates, George, 179, 187, 198, 248, 278, 357

Yellow Horse, 442

Yellow Tavern, 202, 212

Yellow Woman, 151

Yellowstone Park, 469

Yellowstone River, 339–43, 353–57, 358–67, 418–31

Young, Pierce M. B., 112–13

Young-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses (Young Man Afraid), 74–75, 135, 155, 158, 161–62, 164, 228, 237, 388–93, 466, 479

A
BOUT THE
A
UTHOR

Stephen E. Ambrose is the author of more than twenty-five books on political and military history, including the number-one
New York Times
bestseller
D-Day, June 6, 1944,
the award-winning biography
Eisenhower,
and a three-volume life of Richard Nixon. In preparation for
Crazy Horse and Custer,
the author, accompanied by his wife, five children, and two dogs, spent four years and traveled over fifteen thousand miles across America by pickup truck, canoe, horse, and backpack. Stephen E. Ambrose died in 2002.

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