The Lakota Leader Who Forced The U.S. Army To Abandon Its Forts — And Won A War Most Americans Never Learned About
The strategy was not random violence.
It was systematic pressure on the Army’s most fundamental vulnerabilities.
The forts needed wood to build and to heat through the northern Wyoming winters.
The work parties that went to get that wood were exposed in the forests and on the roads between the forests and the fort.
Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors — the allied coalition that Red Cloud helped coordinate and inspire, though he didn’t personally command every engagement — attacked these parties with regularity.
The effect was predictable.
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