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Named in honor of General Philip H. Sheridan, U.S. Army, one of the early protectors of the park. During Reconstruction he defended black people, but after the Civil War he was effectively in charge of clearing Indigenous people out of the plains to make way for settlers. During the Indian Wars he killed Indigenous people and promoted exterminating the buffalo.
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