SEPTEMBER 28, 1864:
After a vicious
summer of Indian war on the Great Plains, Major Edward Wynkoop brings Chief
Black Kettle and other Cheyenne and Arapaho chiefs to Denver to finalize a peace
agreement between the tribes and the Federal government. Black Kettle’s “Dog
Soldiers” agree to lay down their arms and they release white captives in
exchange for an agreement not to be harassed by settlers and soldiers.
