References

Newspapers

The New York Times

Capt. Lawson obituary, New York Times, Feb. 1, 1881

Lt. Cherry Murdered, New York Times, May 16, 1881

Discussion of Crook’s position, New York Times, July 13, 1876

Battle of Rosebud, New York Times, June 17, 1876

Pursuit of Fleeing Cheyennes, New York Times, Jan. 15, 1878

The Fight on the Milk River, New York Times, Nov. 1879

Google Books

Warpath and Bivouac, John F. Finerty, Chicago Times

This is one of the most quoted pieces on the 1876 Sioux War available and it includes lengthy stretches with Lawson, with whom Finerty spent a great deal of time with during the “Starvation March” and at the battle of Slim Buttes.

Life Adventures of Buffalo Bill Cody, Col. William F. Cody

Buffalo Bill Cody meets Lawson for the first time in about 1872 near Sidney, Nebraska. Lawson and Cody crossed paths again during the 1876 Sioux War.

The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee, By Jeffrey Ostler

The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1850-1891

Eyewitness to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890

Tell Them We are Going Home: The Odyssey of the Northern Cheyennes, by John N. Monnett

History of Arizona, 1918

Includes a piece about the Kansas Pacific Railway where Lawson provided escort to engineers and surveyors in 1867. In the narrative, Lawson and a small contingent set out from Fort Union, N.M., before arriving in Fort Bowie, Arizona. First piece to describe Lawson’s quirky personality, his fearless approach to combat and his background.

Other mentions in books

Battle of the Rosebud: Prelude to the Little Bighorn; Neil C. Mangum

The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge: A Lakota Odyssey; Joe Starita

Fort Laramie and the Great Sioux War; Paul L. Hedren

Cheyenne Autumn; Mari Sandoz

Hollow Victory: Tragedy at the White River Agency and the Battle of Milk Creek; Mark Miller

Massacre: Tragedy at White River; Marshall Sprague

Articles

We Belong to the North: The Flights of the Northern Indians from the White River Agencies, 1877-1878 (This article recounts Lawson’s military command that relocated Sioux from the Red Cloud Agency to what would become the Pine Ridge Reservation)

Besieged by the Utes

Other Links

Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center, Chadron State College, Chadron, Neb.