Custer vs. Crazy Horse: Horse-Lords of the Plains (TRIH ep 448, part 3)
1866 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History (hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook) introduces the Lakota Sioux and the cultural, demographic and military context of mid-19th century Plains warfare. The hosts trace native population decline after 1492, the westward surge of Euro‑American settlers, and transformative technologies (horses, firearms, railroads) that reshaped Plains life and buffalo hunting.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1866
- American Civil War (1861)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Bismarck's chancellorship (1871)