Slaughter at Broken Bow Author:Gordon D. Shirreffs The fort at Broken Bow festered like a sore in the side of the Sioux Nation. Now the time had come to lance the wound and ride the white-eyes from the Sacred Lands of Wawantanka. Inside the fort, the soldiers fought and bickered among themselves, while the ominous sound of drums drew the circle of torture and death closer around them.