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Plains Wars
View of the army camp at Hidden Wood Creek during Lieut. Col. George Armstrong Custer's Black Hills expedition, 1874; photograph by W.H. Illingworth.
The Plains Wars were a series of conflicts that took place from the early 1850s through the late 1870s. These engagements occurred between Native Americans and the United States over control of the Great Plains region located between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.1