The Lakota Leader Who Forced The U.S. Army To Abandon Its Forts — And Won A War Most Americans Never Learned About
What is not visible in the landscape is the bison.
The vast herds that made the Powder River Country the prize it was are gone.
Cattle graze where the bison did, and the ranching economy of northeastern Wyoming is the successor to the bison-based economy that the 1868 treaty was designed to protect.
The absence of the bison is itself a kind of monument to what the conflict was ultimately about and what its outcome ultimately failed to preserve.
The Conclusion That History Demands
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