Red Cloud and the Sioux Problem

From the mid-1860s until the end of organized resistance on the Great Plains, Red Cloud, the noted Oglala Sioux, epitomized for many the Indian problem. Centered on Red Cloud's career, this admirably impartial, circumstantial, and rigorously documented study is likely to stand as the definitive account of the relations between the Sioux and the United States government during the years after Civil War.