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5 unusual facts about Red Cloud


Elsa Spear Byron

Among the Indians who posed for her at the battle site were Red Cloud, grandson of the famous warrior, and Plenty Coups, a Crow chief.

John Hauser

Hauser painted hundreds of portraits of Native Americans, including Sitting Bull, Little Wound, Bald Face, Red Cloud, and countless others.

Red Cloud's War

On June 13, however, with the worst possible timing, Colonel Henry B. Carrington commanding the 18th Infantry, arrived at Laramie with the two battalions of the regiment (approximately 1,300 men in 16 companies) and construction supplies.

Carrington and his caravan reached Fort Reno on June 28, and left two companies (about 100 men) there to relieve the two companies of the 5th U.S. Volunteers (nicknamed the "Galvanized Yankees") who had garrisoned the fort over the winter.

Willa Cather Foundation

in Red Cloud, Nebraska, the small town that appears frequently in her novels and stories under a variety of names.


He Dog

Born in the spring of 1840 on the headwaters of the Cheyenne River near the Black Hills, He Dog was the son of a headman named Black Stone and his wife, Blue Day, a sister of Red Cloud.

High Backbone

During Red Cloud's War, Hump / High Backbone played a strategic role in the Fetterman Fight, December 21, 1866.

John War Eagle

His roles include appearing as Red Cloud in the historical, western-drama film Tomahawk (1951), starring Van Heflin; and as Chief Sitting Bull in the Disney family, adventure, western-drama film Tonka (1958), the story of a young Sioux boy, played by Sal Mineo on the brink of adulthood tries to tame a wild stallion to prove his courage and strength.

Porcupine Butte

It was near Porcupine Butte, on December 28, 1890 that Spotted Elks's band of Miniconjou, Lakota and members of the Hunkpapa Lakota band who joined them on their way to join Red Cloud at Pine Ridge, were intercepted by a detachment of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment.

Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer

They also fought US soldiers; his elder brother was killed in the fight at Fort Phil Kearny during Red Cloud's attempt to clear the Bozeman Trail of US forts.


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Arapaho people

The most significant battle during Red Cloud’s War was the Fetterman Fight also known as Battle of The Hundred in the Hand to the Indian forces fought on December 21, 1866.

Jeff Luers

Luers is a former resident of Eugene, Oregon and helped establish Red Cloud Thunder, a group of activists who organized a tree sitting campaign to stop the clear-cutting of old growth forests outside of Fall Creek, Oregon.

Laura Diffenderfer

The work was presented at the Red Cloud Opera House, which Cather attended as a child.

Northern Cheyenne Exodus

Dull Knife agreed to fight no more if the great father in Washington would let his people live on Pine Ridge that now held Red Cloud and his tribe.