{"product_id":"january-moon-the-northern-cheyenne-breakout-from-fort-robinson-1878-1879-9780806164786","title":"January Moon: The Northern Cheyenne Breakout from Fort Robinson, 1878-1879","description":"\u003cbr\u003e Historian Jerome A. Greene is renowned for his memorable chronicles of egregious events involving American Indians and the U.S. military, including Sand Creek, Washita, and Wounded Knee. Now, in \u003ci\u003eJanuary Moon\u003c\/i\u003e, Greene draws from extensive research and fieldwork to explore a signal--and appallingly brutal--event in American history: the desperate flight of Chief Dull Knife's Northern Cheyenne Indians from imprisonment at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the wake of the Great Sioux War of 1876-77, the U.S. government expelled most Northern Cheyennes from their northern plains homeland to Indian Territory, in present-day Oklahoma. Following mounting hardships, many of those people, under Chiefs Dull Knife and Little Wolf, broke away, seeking to return north. While Little Wolf's band managed initially to elude pursuing U.S. troops, Dull Knife's people were captured in 1878 and ushered into a makeshift barrack prison at Camp (later Fort) Robinson, where they spent months waiting for government officials to decide their fate. It is here that Greene's riveting narrative edges toward its climax. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On the night of January 9, 1879, in a bloody struggle with troops, Dull Knife's people staged a massive breakout from their barrack prison in a last-ditch bid for freedom. Greene paints a vivid picture of their frantic escape, which took place under an unusually brilliant moon that doomed many of those fleeing by silhouetting them against the snow. A climactic engagement at Antelope Creek proved especially devastating, and the helpless people were nearly annihilated. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In gripping detail, Greene follows the survivors' dreadful experiences into their aftermath, including creation of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Carrying the story to the present day, he describes Cheyenne tribal events commemorating the breakout--all designed to ensure that the injustices of nineteenth-century U.S. government policy will never be forgotten. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreene, Jerome a.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJerome A. Greene\u003c\/strong\u003e is retired as Research Historian for the National Park Service. He is the author of numerous books, including \u003cem\u003eStricken Field: The Little Bighorn since 1876, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eBattles and Skirmishes of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877: The Military View\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eLakota and Cheyenne: Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eMorning Star Dawn: The Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876\u003c\/em\u003e, all published by the University of Oklahoma Press.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50434617704722,"sku":"9780806164786","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_aa7de23d-ab66-46f6-8335-21d068631b72.jpg?v=1729605278","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/january-moon-the-northern-cheyenne-breakout-from-fort-robinson-1878-1879-9780806164786","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}