Grattan Massacre, Wyo., 1854
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found: Work cat: 2018017415: All because of a Mormon cow, c2019:CIP t.p. (Grattan Massacre) publisher's summary (Grattan Massacre; U.S. Army lieutenant John L. Grattan led a detachment of twenty-nine soldiers and one civilian interpreter to a large Lakota encampment near Fort Laramie to arrest an Indian man accused of killing a Mormon emigrant's cow) galley (August 19, 1854; considered the first shots fired in the First Sioux War (1854-1856); a seminal event in the Plains Indian wars)
found: Beck, P.N. First Sioux war: the Grattan Fight and Blue Water Creek, 1854-1856, c2004.
found: Dictionary of battles and sieges, 2007:Grattan Massacre, 1854 (see Fort Laramie) Fort Laramie (18 August 1854; Sioux Indian Wars; Chief Conquering Bear was fatally wounded; in retribution, Grattan and his entire detachment of 29 were killed)
found: Wikipedia, Sept. 25, 2018:(The Grattan Massacre, also known as the Grattan Fight)
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2018-09-25: new
2019-01-24: revised
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