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History Underfoot: The Search for Physical Evidence of the 1868 Attack on Black Kettle's Village

Description: Article chronicles the four-pronged attack on Cheyenne Peace Chief Black Kettle's village on the Washita River in 1868 that would later become the Washita Battlefield National Historic Site. William B. Lees, Douglas D. Scott, and C. Vance Haynes provide further evidence from surveys conducted at the scene to interpret the event in the form of archaeological/geological findings and recovered artifacts.
Date: Summer 2001
Creator: Lees, William B.; Scott, Douglas D. & Haynes, C. Vance
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Kansas-Osage Border War of 1874: Fact or Wishful Thinking?

Description: Article examines the claims, accusations, and vague and conflicting reports surrounding the Kansas-Osage Border War of 1874. James R. Christianson investigates whether the Osage were indeed behind several attacks attributed to them at the time, or if the situation had been conflagrated by desperate frontiersmen.
Date: Autumn 1985
Creator: Christianson, James R.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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