Shortly after the end of the Civil War, Lieutenant Colonel George Custer sent an Army search party to search for the Lieutenant Lyman Kidder and his men, who had gone missing. The searchers soon came upon the men, lying dead on the open plains, some with as many as 50 arrows. Kidder’s party had been set upon by a Sioux and Cheyenne war party. Kidder was killed, along with an native scout and ten enlisted men.
Listen to Kansas Public Radio commentator Rex Buchanan’s story about the massacre here.