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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

ISBN: 978-1-4222-3357-3 (hc) ISBN: 978-1-4222-8597-8 (ebook)

Major US Historical Wars series ISBN: 978-1-4222-3352-8

About the Author: Leslie Galliker lives in Jackson, New Jersey. She is a former reporter and medical transcriptionist. Leslie has three adult children and five grandchildren.

Picture Credits: Colorado Historical Society: 35; Denver Public Library: 31, 38, 41, 43, 44 (top), 50; Everett Historical: 48, 51; Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia: 11; Library of Congress: 8, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 29 (left), 30, 32, 33, 36, 37, 42, 44 (bottom), 52, 53, 54; Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument/National Park Service: 1; cour- tesy Museum of New Mexico, neg. no. 45968: 29 (right); National Archives: 14, 16, 17, 45, 47; used under license from Shutterstock, Inc.: 7, 15, 23, 40; Don Stivers Publishing: 29; The Woolaroc Museum: 12; U.S. Military Academy at West Point: 9; reproduced from A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux , by Amos Bad Heart Bull, text by Helen H. Blish, by permission of the University of Nebraska Press: 49.