| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.2

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.2 | The History Cooperative

*Washita: The U.S. Army and the Southern Cheyennes, 1867–1869.* By Jerome A. Greene. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. xii + 292 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)
Washita Battlefield is a 315-acre reservation in western Oklahoma, set aside as a National Historic Landmark in 1965 and upgraded to National Historic Site (NHS) in 1996. The National Park Service's Jerome A. Greene is the preeminent historian writing about western military campaigns of the post-Civil War era. Washita is the fruit of his recent efforts on behalf of Washita Battlefield NHS.	1
The reviewer's immediate reaction is: Another Custer book? For it was Lt. Col. George A. Custer who led troops against the Southern Plains tribes in their winter camps in 1868. Without a protagonist of surpassing notoriety, the story of the Washita would fade from the public consciousness. Today, names like Marias River and Palo Duro Canyon resonate only with specialists. Indeed, without Custer there might not be a Washita Battlefield NHS.	. . .

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