“The Death of Lt. McKinney in the Dull Knife Fight,” by L. A. LaGarde (Address at the Order of the Indian Wars Assembly, March 6, 1915).
Death on the Prairie—The Thirty Years Struggle for the Western Plains, by Paul I. Wellman.
Death Song—The Last of the Indian Wars, by John Edward Weems.
The Dull Knife Battle—“Doomsday for the Northern Cheyennes,” by Fred H. Werner.
“The Dull Knife Symposium,” presented by the Fort Phil Kearny/Bozeman Trail Association, funded by the Wyoming Council for the Humanities—August 1989 (papers delivered by John D. McDermott, moderator; Margot P. Liberty; Jerome A. Greene; Ted Risingsun; Sherry L. Smith; and Douglas C. McChristian).
The Fighting Cheyennes, by George Bird Grinnell.
The Fighting Norths and Pawnee Scouts, by Robert Bruce.
“Fighting the Cheyennes: A Hot Little Battle on the Red Fork of the Powder River, Nov. 23, 1876, with Renegades,” by S. Millison, National Tribune, May 17, 1928.
Following the Indian Wars: The Story of the Newspaper Correspondents Among the Indian Campaigners, by Oliver Knight.
Fort Laramie—“Visions of a Grand Post” by Robert A. Murray.
Fort Robinson—Outpost on the Plains, by Roger T. Grange, Jr.
Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay—The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars, by Don Rickey, Jr.
Frank Grouard, Army Scout, edited by Margaret Brock Hanson.
Frontier Regulars—The United States Army and the Indian, 1866–1891, by Robert M. Utley.
The Frontier Trail, by Colonel Homer W. Wheeler (Ret.).
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Indian-Fighting Army, by Fairfax Downey.
Indian Fights and Fighters, by Cyrus Townsend Brady.
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Indian Wars, by Robert M. Utley and Wilcomb E. Washburn.
The Indian Wars of the West, by Paul I. Wellman.
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The Lance and the Shield—The Life and Times of Sitting Bull, by Robert M. Utley.
Life and Adventures of Frank Grouard, by Joe DeBarthe.
Life and Manners in the Frontier Army, by Oliver Knight.
“Mackenzie Against Dull Knife: Breaking the Northern Cheyennes in 1876,” by Lessing H. Nohl. In Probing the American West: Papers from the Santa Fe Conference, edited by K. Ross Toole, et al.
Mackenzie’s Last Fight with the Cheyennes: A Winter Campaign in Wyoming and Montana, by Captain John G. Bourke.
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Military Posts of Wyoming, by Robert A. Murray.
The Most Promising Young Officer—A Life of Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, by Michael D. Pierce.
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Paper Medicine Man—John Gregory Bourke and His American West, by Joseph C. Porter.
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People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830–1879, by Peter J. Powell.
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The Plainsmen of the Yellowstone—A History of the Yellowstone Basin, by Mark H. Brown.
Sagebrush Soldier, by Sherry L. Smith.
The Shoshonis—Sentinels of the Rockies, by Virginia Cole Trenholm and Maurine Carley.
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Soldiers West—Biographies from the Military Frontier, edited by Paul Andrew Hutton.
Son of the Morning Star, by Evan S. Connell.
Spotted Tail’s Folk—A History of the Brule Sioux, by George E. Hyde.
Sweet Medicine: The Continuing Role of the Sacred Arrows, the Sun Dance, and the Sacred Buffalo Hat in Northern Cheyenne History, by Peter J. Powell.
Two Great Scouts and Their Pawnee Battalion—The Experiences of Frank J. North and Luther H. North, by George Bird Grinnell.
The View from Officers’ Row—Army Perceptions of Western Indians, by Sherry L. Smith.
Warpath—The True Story of the Fighting Sioux (The Biography of White Bull), by Stanley Vestal.
Warpath and Council Fire—The Plains Indians’ Struggle for Survival in War and in Diplomacy, 1851–1891, by Stanley Vestal.
War-Path and Bivouac—The Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition, by John F. Finerty.
William Jackson, Indian Scout, by James Willard Schultz.
Wolves for the Blue Soldiers—Indian Scouts and Auxiliaries with the United States Army, 1860–1890, by Thomas W. Dunlay.
Wooden Leg—A Warrior Who Fought Custer, interpreted by Thomas B. Marquis.
Yellowstone Command—Colonel Nelson A. Miles and the Great Sioux War, 1876–1877, by Jerome A. Greene.
The Dull Knife Battlefield exists today much as it did over a hundred years ago—with the exception of the simple stone marker erected near the village site, the single dirt road that hugs the foot of Mackenzie Mountain, and the fact that in the last century the leafy cottonwoods have taken hold along the stream bottom and down in the bogs once infested with ten-foot-high willow at the time soldiers and warriors clashed here.