Episode 404 - The Battle of Beecher Island

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In the aftermath of the Sand Creek Massacre, the traditional governance of the Cheyenne people fracture, the pro-peace chiefs lose power, and warrior societies promise revenge against the settlers and military for their crimes.

A band of warriors trap a small patrol of American soldiers and frontiersmen leading to a plains siege that forces soldiers to eat raw horse meat and then get violently ill because they were eating raw horse meat.

SOURCES:

Norris, David. Desperate Last Stand At Beecher Island. Military Heritage. August 2012. Volume 14, No 2.

Mort, Terry. Cheyenne Summer. The Battle of Beecher Island: A History

Yenne, Bill. The Indian Wars: The Campaign for the American West

Monnett, John. The Battle of Beecher Island and the Indian War of 1867- 1869

Grinnell, George. Bent, George. The Fighting Cheyennes.

Grinnell, George. Bent, George. The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Lifeways.

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