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Fort Sill, located in the heart of the old Kiowa-Comanche Indian country in southwestern Oklahoma, is known to a modern generation as the Field Artillery School of the United States Army. To students of American frontier history, it is known as the focal point of one of the most interesting, dramatic, and sustained series of conflicts in the records of western warfare.From 1833 until 1875, in a theater of action extending from Kansas to Mexico, the strife was almost uninterrupted. The U.S. Army, militia of Kansas, Texas Rangers, and white pioneers and traders on the one hand were arrayed against the fierce and heroic bands of the Kiowas, Comanches, Cheyennes, Arapahoes, and Kiowa-Apaches on the other.The savage skirmishes with the southwestern Indians before the Civil War provided many army officers with a kind of training which was indispensable to them in that later, prolonged conflict. When hostilities ceased, men like Sherman, Sheridan, Dodge, Custer, and Grierson again resumed the harsh field of guerrilla warfare against their Indian foes, tough, hard, lusty, fighters, among whom the peace pipe had ceased to have more than a ceremonial significance.With the inauguration of the so-called Quaker Peace Policy during President Grants first administration, the hands of the army were tied. The Fort Sill reservation became a place of refuge for the marauding hands which went forth unmolested to train in Texas, Oklahoma, and Mexico. The toll in human life reached such proportions that the government finally turned the southwestern Indians over to the army for discipline, and a permanent settlement of the bands was achieved by 1875.From extensive research, conversations with both Indian and white eye witnesses, and his familiarity with Indian life and army affairs, Captain Nye has written an unforgettable account of these stirring time. The delineation of character and the reconstruction of colorful scenes, so often absent in historical writing, are to be found here in abundance. His Indians are made to live again: his scenes of post life could have been written only by an army man.

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title:Carbine and Lance : The Story of Old Fort Sill
author:Nye, Wilbur Sturtevant.
publisher:University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin:0806118563
print isbn13:9780806118567
ebook isbn13:9780806171180
language:English
subjectFort Sill (Okla.) , Indians of North America--Wars, Indians of North America--Government relations, Kiowa Indians, Comanche Indians.
publication date:1937
lcc:F694.N95 1937eb
ddc:976.6
subject:Fort Sill (Okla.) , Indians of North America--Wars, Indians of North America--Government relations, Kiowa Indians, Comanche Indians.
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Carbine & Lance
The Story of Old Fort Sill
By Colonel W. S. Nye
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS NORMAN Page iv By W S NYE - photo 2
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS : NORMAN
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By W. S. NYE
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Carbine & Lance: The Story of Old Fort Sill (Norman, 1937, 1942, 1969)
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(with Jason Betzinez) I Fought with Geronimo (Harrisburg, 1959)
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(with Edward J. Stackpole) The Battle of Gettysburg: A Guided Tour (Harrisburg, 1960)
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Bad Medicine & Good: Tales of the Kiowas (Norman, 1962)
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Here Came the Rebels (Baton Rouge, 1965)
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Plains Indian Raiders: The Final Phases of Warfare from the Arkansas to the Red River, with Original Photographs by William S. Soule (Norman, 1968)
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 79-13137
ISBN: 0-8061-1856-3
Copyright 1937, 1942, 1969 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A.
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To Elleane
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PREFACE
Living today within a few miles of Fort Sill are human beings who, in a single life-span, have passed from the Stone Age to the era of the eight-cylinder motor car and the low-wing monoplane. Here are men who in fierce exultation have torn reeking scalps from their enemies. Here are women who, while their village moved to evade soldiers, have known the anguish of childbirth on horseback.
Kiowas and Comanches!
The United States government never was able to ignore the Indians of the southwest plains, numerically insignificant though they were and are. On account of them Fort Sill was established. Because of them and them alone it was maintained for the first four decades of its existence. The story of their rise from barbarism would be utterly incomplete without a lull exposition of the part played therein by Fort Sill and the Army. The stone walls of the Old Post stand as an everlasting monument to the cunning of the red dwellers of the prairie, to their perversity and valor, and to the memory of those blue-clad troopers who wrote the final chapter of their primitive life.
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CONTENTS
Preface
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Introduction to the Third Edition
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Part I : The Trooper and the Indian
Chapter OneThe Dragoon
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Massacre of Cutthroat GapThe Dragoon ExpeditionThe Village of Grass Houses
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Chapter TwoFirst Army Posts
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Activities of Captain MarcyCamp RadziminskiBattle of Wichita VillageFort CobbDestruction of Fort Cobb and Tonkawa Massacre
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Chapter ThreeThe Prairie War of 1863-64
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Kiowa and CaddoIndians and Whites
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Chapter FourThe Treaty Chief
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Treaties of 1865Colonel Leavenworth's "Peace"Medicine Lodge TreatyThe Cry for Protection
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Chapter FiveThe No-Treaty Chief
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Beginning of Sheridan's CampaignThe Red MoonThe March to Fort CobbFinal Reconnaissance to Medicine BluffBattle of Soldier SpringAnnuity DayEstablishment of Camp WichitaSatanta and Lone Wolf ReleasedA Conference Without a TreatyClose of the Campaign
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