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Circle of Fire: The Indian War of 1865. By John D. McDermott. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2003. xvi + 287 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $26.95.
The Indian War of 1865 marks the last time Plains Indians actually took the offensive against white intrusions into their territory. Besides the basic disruption of their hunting grounds by thousands of outsiders en route to the gold fields of Montana, the immediate cause was the massacre of Black Kettle's band of Cheyennes at Sand Creek by...