Caspar Collins and the Battle of the River Platte Bridge

In 1865, an alliance of the Sioux, Arapaho, and Cheyenne fielded one of the largest armies to face the United States Army during the Plains Indian Wars. The History Guy remembers Caspar Collins and the Battle of the River Platte Bridge.

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