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    The Battle of the Washita River (also called Battle of the Washita or the Washita Massacre) occurred on November 27, 1868, when Lt. Col. George Armstrong...
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    The Washita River (/ˈwɑːʃɪtɑː/) is a river in the states of Texas and Oklahoma in the United States. The river is 295 miles (475 km) long and terminates...
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  • of the Cheyenne chief Little Rock. Her father was killed on November 28, 1868, in the Battle of Washita River when the camp of Chief Black Kettle, of...
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    Black Kettle (category Native American people of the Indian Wars)
    1868, while attempting to escape the Battle of Washita River with his wife, he was shot and killed by soldiers of the U.S. 7th Cavalry. Black Kettle was...
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    Joel Elliott (category People of the Great Sioux War of 1876)
    the Battle of Shiloh, Battle of Perryville, Battle of Stones River, and was wounded twice. Joel Elliott was killed during the Battle of Washita River (also...
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    The Battle of the Upper Washita River or the Battle of the Upper Washita, which is sometimes known by its major engagement, the Battle of Lyman's Wagon...
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    member of the Council of Forty-four and chief of the Wotapio band of Southern Cheyenne, killed by George Armstrong Custer at Battle of Washita River) Morning...
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    Louis McLane Hamilton (category American people of Scottish descent)
    the age of 24 while leading a charge in the Battle of Washita River. Hamilton was born in New York City on July 21, 1844. He was a grandson of Alexander...
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  • Oklahoma Washita Battlefield National Historic Site Washita National Wildlife Refuge, Custer County, Oklahoma Battle of Washita River Fort Washita, Bryan...
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    Southern Cheyenne camp on the Washita River in the Battle of Washita River, an attack which was at the time labeled a "massacre of innocent Indians" by the...
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    Washita Battlefield National Historic Site protects and interprets the site of the Southern Cheyenne village of Chief Black Kettle where the Battle of...
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  • the Battle of Washita River in 1867 and 1868 respectively. Rock Forehead's camp was one of several camps along the Washita River downstream of Black Kettle's...
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  • Little Rock (Cheyenne chief) (category Year of birth uncertain)
    A week later, in the Battle of Washita River of November 27, 1868, Black Kettle's and Little Rock's camp on the Washita River was attacked at dawn by...
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    Regiment in an attack on the Cheyenne encampment of Chief Black Kettle – the Battle of Washita River. He reported killing 103 warriors; 53 women and children...
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    Sacagawea (category Captives of Native Americans)
    Missouri River in the springtime. Knowing they would need to communicate with the tribal nations who lived at the headwaters of the Missouri River, they...
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    the Battle of Washita River, or the Washita massacre, an ignominious part of the United States' Indian Wars.[citation needed] The Osage were one of the...
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    Philip Hamilton (lawyer) (category American people of Dutch descent)
    killed at the age of 24 while leading the first charge in Custer's attack on Black Kettle's Cheyenne encampment in the Battle of Washita River. Allan McLane...
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  • This is a list of Native American leaders who participated in the American Indian Wars, which occurred throughout the early 17th century until the early...
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    Bass Reeves (category Gunslingers of the American Old West)
    including Cherokee and Creek. Bass was one of the first African-American deputy U.S. Marshals west of the Mississippi River mostly working in the rough Indian...
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    The makeup of poker's dead man's hand has varied through the years. Currently, it is described as a two-pair poker hand consisting of the black aces and...
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    Little Wolf (category People of the Great Sioux War of 1876)
    Colorado War 1864: November, Sand Creek massacre 1868: Battle of Washita River 1876: Battle of the Little Bighorn 1877: Moved to Indian Territory 1884:...
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  • Creek, Battles of | the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture". Hoig, Stan. The Battle of the Washita: The Sheridan-Custer Indian Campaign of 1867-69...
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    Mattie Blaylock (category People of the American Old West)
    romantic companion and common-law wife of Old West lawman and gambler Wyatt Earp for about six years. Knowledge of her place in Wyatt's life was concealed...
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    Doc Holliday (category American people of English descent)
    daughter of Doc's uncle Thomas S. McKey, said her father told her: "They rode in on the Negroes in swimming in a part of the Withlacoochee River that "Doc"...
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    Wild Bill Hickok (category American people of English descent)
    Medal of Honor on July 8, 1869, at Republican River, Kansas, during the Indian campaigns Eisfield, Rainer (October 15, 1995). "Myths and Realities of Frontier...
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    (then the Mexican state of Tejas) shortly thereafter. In early 1836, he took part in the Texas Revolution and died at the Battle of the Alamo. It is unclear...
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    Manifest destiny (category History of North America)
    rather than regular troops. The American victories at the Battle of Lake Erie and the Battle of the Thames in 1813 ended the Indian raids and removed the...
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    Billy the Kid (category American people convicted of murdering police officers)
    At Fort Stanton, starving and near death, he went to the home of friend and Seven Rivers Warriors gang member John Jones, whose mother Barbara nursed him...
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  • Little Big Man (film) (category Cultural depictions of George Armstrong Custer)
    assassination of Crazy Horse at Fort Robinson in 1877. The movie's portrayal of the Battle of Washita River as a Custer-led massacre of women and children...
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    Annie Oakley (category Cowgirl Hall of Fame inductees)
    Buffalo Bill in 1885, performing in Europe before royalty and other heads of state. Audiences were astounded to see her shooting out a cigar from her husband's...
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