Cheyenne Breakout

At 10 p.m. on September 7, 1878, Little Wolf, Dull Knife, Wild Hog and over 300 Northern Cheyenne warriors, women and children fled Darlington Agency in Indian Territory. They were going home to the northern plains. These people had been removed from the northern plains in May 1878 to a place that became a hellhole, where hot, sultry air combined with disease and starvation to decimate them. While more than 950 Northern Cheyennes had been moved to the Darlington Agency near Fort Reno, by the