Inevitable misfortune

By "The Cowboy" Jim Gray

As the 1868 spring turned to summer everyone on the plains held their breath wondering if peace with the Cheyenne was going to hold.

When the conference for peace had been held at Medicine Lodge the previous fall, the Cheyenne were the last to sign.

Who could blame them?

Of all the plains tribes the Cheyenne had been singled out by Colorado troops for retribution by means of a particularly brutal attack on a peaceful village in 1864. The Sand Creek Massacre was still fresh in their minds.

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