The Chief Who Wanted Peace And Died For It — The Tragic Story Of Black Kettle
He died in the river, trying to live.
Medicine Woman Later died with him.
The woman who had survived nine bullets at Sand Creek did not survive the Washita.
Custer’s Account and Its Problems
Custer’s account of the Washita engagement, published in his 1874 memoir My Life on the Plains, presents the attack as an unambiguous military success — the destruction of a hostile camp that had been raiding American settlers in Kansas.
The problems with this account are multiple and significant.
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