The end of the world began that day. Not slowly or quietly, not piece by piece or by degrees, but as a calamity that brings another and another and another.” The calamity was an attack on the Northern Cheyenne camp of Old Bear on March 17, 1876. It would be followed by battles at the Rosebud and Little Bighorn, and then the removal of the Northern Cheyennes to Indian Territory. There, they suffered unspeakable hardship before taking flight and returning to the northern Plains, where roughly


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