Cheyennes at dark water creek the last fight of the red river war chalfant william y isbn 9780806128757 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Cheyennes at dark water creek tells the tragic story of the southern bands of cheyennes from the period following the treaty of medicine lodge through the battles and skirmishes known as the red. However in cheyennes at dark water creek william chalfant reminds us that the red river war or buffalo war as it is also widely known did not end quite so smartly in the chill of the winter in 1874 it continued instead in the form of innumerable acts of individual resistance and the refusal of several groups of indian peoples to be constrained within the restricted space of the . Cheyennes at dark water creek tells the tragic story of the southern bands of cheyennes from the period following the treaty of medicine lodge through the battles and skirmishes known as the red river war the battle of sappa creek the last encounter of that conflict was a fight between a band of cheyennes and a company of the sixth cavalry that took place in kansas in april 1875 more cheyennes were killed in that single engagement than in all the previous fighting of the war combined