History Underfoot: The Search for Physical Evidence of the 1868 Attack on Black Kettle's Village (open access)

History Underfoot: The Search for Physical Evidence of the 1868 Attack on Black Kettle's Village

Article chronicles the four-pronged attack on Cheyenne Peace Chief Black Kettle's village on the Washita River in 1868 that would later become the Washita Battlefield National Historic Site. William B. Lees, Douglas D. Scott, and C. Vance Haynes provide further evidence from surveys conducted at the scene to interpret the event in the form of archaeological/geological findings and recovered artifacts.
Date: Summer 2001
Creator: Lees, William B.; Scott, Douglas D. & Haynes, C. Vance
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History