A Road They Did Not Know Summary

The author, Larry McMurty in his article “A Road They did Not Know” sheds light on the happenings of June 25-26, 1876, at the battle of the Little Big Horn. He mentions, in the summer of 1875, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer revealed the presence of gold in the Black Hills in front of the whole nation. After which the government was regretting their agreement of giving the Black Hills and other lands to the Sioux, to which, the whites in the peace party and many others said that the government should honor the agreement, especially, this agreement which was announced publicly in 1868. The Sioux, of many become Indian agency, their free life of hunting was possibly on in some areas; the Powder River, parts of Montana, South Dakota west of

They also forgot that there were thousands of Sioux from the northern plain who had not given the approval for anything. In spring 1876, the white army marched towards the northern plains. General George Crook was already in position, while, Colonel John Gibbon, General Alfred Terry, and Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer were on their way. By March 1876, thousands of Indian gathered in Little Big Horn in eastern Montana, with Sitting Bull and Hunkpapa band of Sioux, for the great feast along with the big fight with the army of whites. On the other hand, the author specifies how General George Crook destroyed a village and killed some Indians in search of Crazy Horse. But the failure to track down Crazy Horse, was more frustrating than the triumph of capturing the village. At the same time, Indians were celebrating and enjoying, many knew that there might be no opportunity in future. Everyone knew about the upcoming war but many didn’t care and

This confidence was possible only because of Sitting Bulls vision about the soldiers falling upside down into the camp. Soon after that, Cheyenne informed about the arrival of General George Crook from the south. Then the Indians charged towards General Crook on the Rosebud Creek, where the one of the two famous battles were fought, there was a very intense battle between the Indians and the white army supported by Crow scouts and Shoshones. At some points, General Crook almost succeed, but even Crazy Horse, Black Twin, Bad Heart Bull and many others were very determined in dashing out the white soldiers and fragmenting Crook’s army. Then the author describes a rare incident that took place during the battle, women came running to save his brother. As the sun went down, the Indians returned home with a glorious success, see them return General Crook announced himself and his army the winner of this battle but everyone refused to believe him, even he couldn’t believe. Eight days later in Little Big Horn, even after causalities, they kept fighting, General Crook with the days end accepted the advised offered by his fellow scouts about, that they are vast in number. General Crook’s difficulties could provide an advantage to the sensible officers, Gibbon and Terry, but it didn’t slow Custer for a bit. Despite being warned serval times by his own scouts he kept