Alternative Perspectives on the Battle of Wolf Creek of 1938

Abstract

The Battle of Wolf Creek in northwestern Oklahoma in 1838 was highly significant to the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Comanche, and Plains Apache tribes, but little known beyond their mutual frontier. Their oral accounts of the battle allow us to examine these Plains Indians' view of their history and compare it to the non-Indian's ways of memorializing events.