Sitting Bull: the Life and Death of a Native American Chief
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Battle of Little Bighorn
In the 18 sixties, there were a number of whites who came up through nebraska and into wyoming on their way to gold fields and montana. The route to the gold fields passed right through lakota hunting grounds. And lacotis had fought the united states army, which had built forts to protect those prospectors going through. There was also an effort to hold off encroachment from the railroad, as i was mentioning earlier, coming through to the north. Then in 18 73, george armstrong custer, who had become a rather famous a general young man during the civil war, was known as the boy general. Very flamboyant figure.
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