Ages: 6 and up

The year was 1866, the Civil War had just ended, and the Bozeman Trail was the shortest route for prospectors to reach the gold rush territory of Montana-except that it passed straight through the lands of the powerful Oglala Lakota! When the US government demanded the construction of forts along the trail, the situation quickly dissolved into war. Captain William Fetterman had proudly boasted that he could destroy the entire Lakota nation with just 80 men. Red Cloud, with the support of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, had other ideas. In this commemorative edition, marking the 150th anniversary of Red Cloud’s War, master storyteller, Paul Goble, brings to life the thrilling account of the Fetterman Fight, the only instance in US history where the government has gone to war and afterwards negotiated a peace conceding every demand by the enemy and exacting nothing in return