Using Cheyenne and Arapaho accounts, Charles Brill tells the story of General George Armstrong Custer's winter campaign on the southern plains in 1868-69, including his attack on Black Kettle's village on the banks of the Washita River. Brill provides the Indian point of view as he follows Custer into a battle that remains controversial to the present day.

Originally published: Conquest of the Southern Plains. Oklahoma City : Golden Saga Publishers, ©1938. Originally published: Conquest of the Southern Plains. Oklahoma City : Golden Saga Publishers, c1938. Some copies are the paperback edition (reprints) published by the University of Oklahoma Press, 2001, ix, 323 p., ill., maps, 22cm.

Foreword / Mark L. Gardner -- Introduction : Wanted--jobs for generals -- George Armstrong Custer -- Black Kettle and other chiefs -- Creating new war clouds -- Last scrap of paper -- Organizing the Washita campaign -- Along the Washita -- On to the Washita -- Washita Massacre -- Clearing the Washita -- Putting Custer on the spot -- Custer breaks faith -- Echoes of the Washita.