Custer, Black Kettle, and the fight on the Washita

Using Cheyenne and Arapaho accounts, Charles Brill tells the story of General George Armstrong Custer's winter campaign on the southern plains in 1868-69, including his attack on Black Kettle's village on the banks of the Washita River. Brill provides the Indian point of view as he follows Custer into a battle that remains controversial to the present day.