Mackenzie's Last Fight With The Cheyennes: A Winter Campaign In Wyoming And Montana.

CAPT JOHN G. BOURKE

Publication: Governor's Island: Reprinted from Journal Military Service Institution, 1890,

First edition. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, 44 pp., frontis. [portrait of Brigadier General Ranald S. Mackenzie]. A thorough account of this mid-winter attack on the Cheyenne village of Dull Knife and Little Wolf in November, 1876. On November 23, 1876, a Cheyenne Indian from the Red Cloud Agency informed the soldiers of a large Cheyenne village at the source of Crazy Woman Creek, further upstream from the current US camp, in a Bighorn Mountains canyon. Col. Mackenzie was ordered to take the Indian scouts, and all of the cavalry except one company, in search of the village. He led 1000 men, one third of which were Indians. Eventually on November 25, Mackenzie located the camp of Dull Knife and Little Wolf on the Red Fork of the Powder River. Waiting until dawn, Mackenzie attacked and drove the warriors and their families from the village, many leaving their clothes, blankets and buffalo robes behind to flee into the frozen countryside. The Cheyenne village of 200 lodges and all its contents were entirely destroyed. Top right corner of front panel professionally restored, light wear to fore-edges of front and rear panels, else the text is fine. Housed in a cloth clamshell case, moderately rubbed along spine panel and corners with leather label on front panel and titles stamped in gold on front cover and spine.