Finding Sand Creek: History, Archeology, and the 1864 Massacre Site

From: Plains Anthropologist | Date: May 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Finding Sand Creek: History, Archeology, and the 1864 Massacre Site. JEROME A. GREENE AND DOUGLAS D. SCOTT (Foreword by Christine Whitacre). University of Oklahoma Press, Norman 2004. xxvi + 241 pp., preface, illustrations, maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography. $24.95 (cloth), $14.95 (paper).

At the Little Big Horn, historical archaeologists (including Douglas D. Scott) turned up artifact patterns (primarily in ammunition components) that indicated Ouster's battalion disintegrated. This finding supported not the native accounts that speak of a gallant last stand, but those that paint ...

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