{"product_id":"slim-buttes-1876-an-episode-of-the-great-sioux-war-9780806117126","title":"Slim Buttes  1876: An Episode of the Great Sioux War","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeneral George Crooks controversial Horsemeat March culminating in the battle at Slim Buttes is considered the turning point of the Sioux Wars. After Lieutenant General George A. Custers shocking defeat at the Little Big Horn River  Montana Territory  in 1876  General Crook and the men of this Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition were given orders to pursue and subjugate restive tribes of the Northern Cheyenne and Teton Sioux Indians in the area.General Crook  an able and experienced Indian campaigner  insisted that his men travel light and fast. This tactic nearly proved disastrous. Provisions ran out  and  with the nearest settlements still far away in the Black Hills  Crooks troops were forced to abandon  and later to devour  their exhausted and stringy mounts.When a detachment under Captain Anson Mills was dispatched to bring provisions from the settlements ahead  Mills accidentally came across a large Indian village at Slim Buttes. Lured as much by supplies of food in the village as by a desire to subjugate the Indians  Mills attacked  Crook arrived with reinforcements  and by the evening of the second day  September 9  1876  the battle was over.The climax of General Crooks career and of one of the most arduous military expeditions in American history  this battle was the first of a series of blows that ultimately broke the Indians resistance and forced their submission.The victory was not without irony. Crooks starvation march  his troops nearly unanimous criticism of his command  Mills account of an Indian childs tears over her mothers corpse  and doubts about whether the Indians involved had indeed had anything to do with Custers defeat combined to steal most of the glory from the victor.Slim Buttes  1876 presents in vivid detail the grisly realities of the Indian Wars and the suffering experienced by both sides. For the troops who campaigned in the lonely hinterlands of America  it was bloody  dangerous  and exhausting warfare fought  as General Crook said  without favor or hope of reward.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45650349883445,"sku":"ByrdShop_0806117125","price":250.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780806117126.jpg?v=1781794820","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/slim-buttes-1876-an-episode-of-the-great-sioux-war-9780806117126","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}