Red Cloud

Red Cloud is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, empire, conquest and resistance, and exploration, travel and cultural encounter. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.

In Michael Punke’s Ridgeline, Red Cloud assembles resistance while Crazy Horse tests the soldiers through raids and decoys; within Fort Phil Kearny, veterans divided by the Civil War struggle with isolation, discipline and competing ideas of command.