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Buffalo Soldiers | The Brass Letters | 1
Lindsey Graham
These settlers had brought livestock to the region that spread disease among the free-roaming buffalo and depleted their forage. The Army's 1864 massacre of hundreds of unarmed Cheyenne near Sand Creek, Colorado, had also ignited armed conflict across the southern plains, and construction of the transcontinental railroad deepened Native resentment.
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