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Book Review
| Morning Star Dawn: The Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876. By Jerome A. Greene. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. xvi + 288 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)
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Jerome A. Greene's Morning Star Dawnis a detailed, erudite, and readable study of the autumn 1876 Powder River Expedition, which was a catalyst for the defeat of the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne during the Great Sioux War of 1876–77. Spring and summer 1876 saw bungled campaigns by General George Crook and the annihilation of George Custer's immediate command at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. |
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