The Fetterman Fight ranks among the most crushing defeats suffered by the US Army in the nineteenth-century West. In Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight, award-winning historian John Monnett presents Native views, drawn from previously published sources as well as newly discovered interviews with Oglala and Cheyenne warriors and leaders.
Critical to understanding the nuances of Plains Indian strategy and tactics, the firsthand narratives in Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight reveal the true nature of this Native victory against regular army forces.
