The Buffalo Wallow fight is a little-known event taking place on September 12, 1874. It was part of the new Red River War devised by General Ranald McKenzie to use five different columns of troops from different forts to squeeze the tribes onto reservations who had either never been on reservations or had left them.
Part of the pincer movement involved a rival, General Nelson Miles, who had been encamped on the Red River, but who had decided to move north. Part of his movement required informing the supply train on the way from Camp Supply in Oklahoma to the Red River that he was going to move his encampment further north.
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