COMMANDER // 1820–1904
Little Wolf
United States3 battles1 war
Lifespan
1820 – 1904
Active service 1876 — 3 battles across 1 war; first command at age 56.
Profile
Little Wolf was a Northern Só'taeo'o Chief and Sweet Medicine Chief of the Northern Cheyenne. He was known as a great military tactician and led a dramatic escape from confinement in Oklahoma back to the Northern Cheyenne homeland in 1878, known as the Northern Cheyenne Exodus.
Battles (3)
1876
Battle of Powder RiverGreat Sioux War of 1876 · Northern Cheyenne
1876
1876
Dull Knife FightGreat Sioux War of 1876 · Cheyenne