Red Cloud: Sioux Warrior: Native American Leaders of the Wild West, by William R. Sanford, Enslow Publishers, Hillside, N.J., 1994.
This is a very good study of Red Cloud as a warrior. The book says Red Cloud defeated the Whites twice. First in forcing the American troops from the forts along the Bozeman Trail. The second was in negotiation where he asserted the tribes insistence on not going to a reservation along the Missouri River but staying closer to the Black Hills. Thus they are on the Pine Ridge Reservation, a more desert location. Red Cloud was not pleased with this location. This is where he died.
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