Wolf Mountain Moon: The Battle of the Butte, 1877

for all his enthusiastic assistance

helping me write

the past four Plainsmen novels,

the dedication of this novel to

the widely respected National Park Service historian

and published Indian Wars authority

Jerome A. Greene

is long overdue

Cast of Characters

Seamus Donegan                                          Samantha Donegan

Military

Brigadier General George C. Crook—Department of the Platte

Colonel William B. Hazen—commanding Sixth U.S. Infantry, Fort Buford, M.T.

Colonel Nelson A. Miles—commanding Fifth U.S. Infantry, Tongue River Cantonment, M.T.

Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie—commanding Fourth U.S. Cavalry

Lieutenant Colonel Elwell S. Otis—Twenty-second U.S. Infantry

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Whistler—Fifth U.S. Infantry

Major Alfred L. Hough—Seventeenth U.S. Infantry, commanding at Glendive Cantonment

Major Henry R. Tilton—Surgeon, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Major Edwin F. Townsend—Commanding Officer, Fort Laramie, W.T.

Captain Charles J. Dickey—E Company, Twenty-second Infantry

Captain Ezra P. Ewers—E Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Captain—Randall—Quartermaster, Fifth U.S. Infantry, Tongue River Cantonment, M.T.

Captain Wyllys Lyman—I Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Captain James S. Casey—A Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Captain Andrew S. Bennett—B Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Captain Edmond Butler—C Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Captain Simon Snyder—F Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Captain Edwin Pollock—Ninth U.S. Infantry, commander of Reno Cantonment

First Lieutenant Frank D. Baldwin—Fifth U.S. Infantry

First Lieutenant Cornelius C. Cusick—F Company, Twenty-second Infantry

First Lieutenant Mason Carter—K Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

First Lieutenant George W. Baird—regimental adjutant, Fifth U.S. Infantry

First Lieutenant Robert McDonald—D Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Second Lieutenant Russell H. Day—Sixth U.S. Infantry, commanding garrison at Fort Peck

Second Lieutenant David Q. Rousseau—G Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Second Lieutenant William H. Wheeler—Eleventh U.S. Infantry

Second Lieutenant Frank S. Hinkle—H Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Second Lieutenant Charles E. Hargous—Fifth U.S. Infantry, commanding mounted infantry to Wolf Mountain

Second Lieutenant Hobart K. Bailey—Fifth U.S. Infantry, aide-de-camp to Miles

Second Lieutenant James Worden Pope—E Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry, commanding Rodman gun

Second Lieutenant Edward W. Casey—Twenty-second U.S. Infantry, assisting Pope’s artillery detail: in charge of Napoleon gun

Second Lieutenant Oscar F. Long—Fifth U.S. Infantry, acting engineering officer

Second Lieutenant William H. C. Bowen—Fifth U.S. Infantry, in charge of supply wagons

Second Lieutenant James H. Whitten—I Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry, in charge of pack animals

Trumpeter Edwin M. Brown

Private Thomas Kelly—I Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Private Richard Bellows—E Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Private Philip Kennedy—C Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry Private

Patton G. Whited—C Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Assistant Surgeon Louis S. Tesson

Civilians

Thomas J. Mitchell—agent at Fort Peck

Elizabeth Burt

Martha Luhn

Nettie Capron

Army Scouts

Johnny Bruguier / “Big Leggings”

Luther S. (Sage) “Yellowstone” Kelly

Robert Jackson

William Jackson

Victor Smith

John Johnston

George Johnson

James Parker

William Cross

Jim Woods

Tom Leforge

Joe Culbertson

Edward Lambert

George Boyd