Plains Indians had watched as the Platte Valley turned ... Fetterman, who had once boasted he could lick the entire Sioux tribe with just 80 men, rushed from the fort to support the wood-gathering ...

The world of Plains Indians and of other American Indians in the West had existed for several centuries. The eighteenth century, in particular, represents the West as we think about it before the ...

The buffalo supplied the Plains Indians -- Blood, Sarcee, Peigan and Blackfoot among others - with almost everything they needed. Hides were dressed and made into clothing and stretched onto poles ...