Autobiography of Red Cloud: War Leader of the Oglalas

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A brilliant military strategist| Red Cloud honed his skills against his tribe’s traditional enemies — the Pawnees| Shoshones| Arikaras| and Crows — long before he fought to close the Bozeman Trail.
Here| for the first time in print| is Red Cloud’s “as-told-to” autoBIOGRAPHY| where he shares the story of his early years.
this manuscript — which has rested ignored for decades at the Nebraska State historical Society — brings us closer than the historical record has yet allowed to understanding the life of one of the Sioux’s greatest war leaders.