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THE FRONTIER SERIES

(VOL. 2)

FIGHTING RED CLOUDS WARRIORS: TRUE TALES OF INDIAN DAYS WHEN THE WEST WAS YOUNG

BY

E. A. BRININSTOOL

(Honorary Companion Order of Indian Wars,

Author; Trail Dust of a Maverick,

A Trooper With Custer;

Co-author The Bozeman Trail)

CHIEF RED CLOUD, WHOSE CONSTANT SIEGE OF FORT PHIL KEARNEY COMPELLED THE GOVERNMENT TO ABANDON THE COUNTRY. PHOTO COURTESY CAPT. J. H. COOK, AGATE, NEB.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER

DEDICATION

To my dear friend, Mrs. Mary E. Graham, now (1926) in her 87th year; the first white woman to settle in northwestern Nebraska; champion of the American Indian; personal friend of that great Sioux chieftain and warrior, RED CLOUD; pioneer woman of distinction; who has encouraged and aided me in the writing of these Western historical sketches, this volume is most affectionately dedicated.

PREFACE

THE winning of the West was no childs play! It was warwar of the most brutal and inhuman type on the part of both Indians and whites. The Indian was fighting for his home, his commissary, his landslands ceded him through solemn treaty with the United States governmentand what man, of any nation (if he is any sort of man) will not fight for home and native land?

The white man fought to advance the cause of civilization, irrespective (in most instances) of the rights of the Indian, and without regard to his future existence. Civilization wonand to civilizations shame, it was at the cost of unnumbered thousands of lives and the shedding of much human blood of both whites and reds.

I am not a believer in the old adage that the only good Indian is a dead Indian. My sympathy is with the red man. The early white traders who trafficked with the Indian were, as a rule, a class of men of little conscience and few scruples, who would stoop to any deceit or trickery to rob the Indian of his furs and pelts. It was the early trader who introduced whiskey among the Indian tribes; who, through fraud and knavery, turned the red man against the whites of whatever class. This was the beginning of the hatred and contempt which made all white men, good or bad, soon look alike to the warring savage.

Unscrupulous Indian agents, tricky post traders, unprincipled government officials at Washington, and a fewa very fewinhuman army officers fed fuel to the flame of contempt which quickly spread through the Indian tribes of the far West. Briefly, the whole, situation can be summed up in these five words: The white man wanted it !

In this volume of the Frontier Series I have written of a few of the most noted battles between the red man and the white man. As in the previous volume, no fiction is employed in these pages. Every incident related actually occurred, and is a part of the history of the old West. Some biographical sketches of noted frontier characters are included. The chapter on the destruction of the buffalo may well make the present-day sportsman pause and reflect.

Acknowledgments are due the following friends for facts and information furnished me in the preparation of some portions of this volume: Capt. Jas. H. Cook, Sergt. Samuel Gibson, Sigmund Shlesinger, Mrs. Olive K. Dixon, Jeff C, Riddle, Jesse Brown, Francis W. Hilton.

Volume 3 of the Frontier Series already is in course of preparation. It will contain accounts of other noted Indian battles, and a comprehensive sketch of that remarkable frontiersman, California Joe.

Other volumes doubtless will be added to the series as historical data in a more correct form than has yet appeared in print, is brought to light through correspondence and research. And there is plenty of room for correction in what has heretofore been written about Indian warfarecorrection long due the Indian, which it is my intention to present in its true light as many untruths are uncovered.

E. A. BRININSTOOL.

Los Angeles, Cal., 1926.

ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Chief Red Cloud (Frontispiece)
2. Cobblestone Monument on Massacre Hill
3. Fort Phil Kearney from an Old Painting
4. Marker on Site of Fort Phil Kearney
5. Graves of Fetterman Disaster
6. General H. B. Carrington
7. Portugee Phillips
8. Map of Fetterman Fight
9. Iron Tablet on Fetterman Monument
10. Frederic Claus
11. Capt. James W. Powell
12. Sergt. Samuel S. Gibson
13. Max Littman
14. Red Cloud at the Age of 90
15. Grave of Red Cloud at Pine Ridge
16. Red Cloud and His Wife
17. Leader of the Sioux in the Wagon Box Fight
18. Old Fort Laramie
19. Monument of Cobble Stones
20. Captain Frederick Brown
21. Building Plan of Fort Phil Kearney
22. S. Shlesinger, Youngest of Forsyths Scouts
23. Beecher Island Battleground
24. John Hurst, one of Forsyths Scouts
25. Inscription on Beecher Island Monument
26. Another View of the Monument
27. Jack Stillwell of Forsyths Scouts
28. Grave of Lieut. F. H. Beecher
29. Beecher Island Battle Monument
30. Site of Beecher Island Battle
31. Billy Dixon, Famous Scout and Frontiersman
32. Photo of Billy Dixon in 1880
33. General Nelson A. Miles
34. Captain Jack, Modoc Chief
35. Tobey Riddle, Heroine of the Modoc War
36. Fort Bridger
37. The Bridger Monument
38. Major James Bridger
39. Calamity Jane
40. Deadwood, S. Dak., in 1876
41. The American Buffalo
42. The Hide Hunter at Work
43. Forty Thousand Buffalo Hides
44. Where Col. James Bowie Was Killed
45. The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas

CHAPTER ITHE TRAGEDY OF FORT PHIL KEARNEY

HOW THE RASHNESS OF CAPT. WM. J. FETTERMAN RESULTED IN THE ANNIHILATION OF HIS ENTIRE COMMAND OF EIGHTY-ONE MEN.

ON the highway between Sheridan and Buffalo, in the present state of Wyoming, and about twenty-three miles southeast of the former city, stands an unpretentious monument about fifteen feet high, built of the rough cobblestones picked up in the immediate vicinity. Across the face of this rugged shaft is fastened a bronze shield bearing the following inscription:

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