Crazy Horse and the End of Lakota Freedom
By Daniel R. Whitcomb
Length4h 32m
About this audiobook
In the last week of May 1866, a train of sixty or seventy wagons came grinding north out of the Platte bottomlands onto the new Bozeman Road, bound for the Montana gold camps, while Lakota men lay flat in the grass on the ridges above and counted them. The road cut straight through the Powder River country, the best buffalo range left on the northern Plains. That same spring Colonel Henry Carrington marched west with some seven hundred men and orders to build forts along it without provoking a war.
Before the year was out, Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho fighters had destroyed Captain William Fetterman's command outside Fort Phil Kearny, and among the decoys who drew him out, by most accounts, was a young Oglala named Crazy Horse. By 1868 the United States had abandoned the road.
His path ran on through the treaty signed that year, the gold Custer's column found in the Black Hills in 1874, the Greasy Grass in June 1876, which the Army called the Little Bighorn, and a hard winter on the run, to his surrender at Camp Robinson in May 1877 and the soldier's bayonet that killed him there that September.
His death did not settle the question of the Black Hills. That February, while his people were still in their winter camps, Congress had passed an act taking them. The Lakota never agreed to give them up, and the book stays with the hills long after he was gone.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length4 hrs 32 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 18, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1: The Road Through the Buffalo
2Chapter 2: Fort Phil Kearny
3Chapter 3: The Wagon Boxes and the Hayfields
4Chapter 4: The Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868
5Chapter 5: The Thieves' Road
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6Chapter 6: The Winter of the Seven Camps
7Chapter 7: The Battle at the Greasy Grass
8Chapter 8: The Buffalo Soldiers and the Cold Trail
9Chapter 9: Winter Count on the Yellowstone
10Chapter 10: Fort Robinson
11Chapter 11: The Black Hills Belong to No One
12Chapter 12: The Grass Grows Over
13About the Author
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