Wild West

A TIP TO THE WHITE HAT

mong the unsung figures of the Indian wars era, William Philo Clark played a pivotal role in the arrest and subsequent death of Lakota war leader Crazy Horse. Earlier the lieutenant had served under Brig. Gen. George Crook as a member of the 1876 Horsemeat (or Starvation) March, which ended with the September 9 and 10 Battle of Slim Buttes and the November 25 attack against Northern Cheyennes known as the Dull Knife, which received a 2019 Spur Award for best biography from the Wild West History Association [].

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