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Hollow Victory : The White River Expedition of 1879 and the Battle of Milk Creek
author
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Miller, Mark E.
publisher
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University Press of Colorado
isbn10 | asin
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087081463X
print isbn13
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9780870814631
ebook isbn13
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9780585021423
language
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English
subject
Milk Creek (Rio Blanco County and Moffat County, Colo.), Battle of, 1879, Ute Indians--Wars, 1879, Ute Indians--Government relations, United States.--Army.--Cavalry, 5th, Meeker, Nathan Cook,--1814-1879.
publication date
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1997
lcc
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E83.879.M56 1997eb
ddc
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973.8/3
subject
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Milk Creek (Rio Blanco County and Moffat County, Colo.), Battle of, 1879, Ute Indians--Wars, 1879, Ute Indians--Government relations, United States.--Army.--Cavalry, 5th, Meeker, Nathan Cook,--1814-1879.
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Hollow Victory
THE WHITE RIVER EXPEDITION OF 1879 AND THE BATTLE OF MILK CREEK
MARK E. MILLER
University Press of Colorado
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1997 by the University Press of Colorado Published by the University Press of Colorado P.O. Box 849 Niwot, Colorado 80544 Tel. (303) 530-5337
All Rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America.
The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Denver.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Miller, Mark E., 1951 Hollow Victory: the White River Expedition of 1879 and the Battle of Milk Creek / Mark E. Miller. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87081-463-X (hardcover: alk. paper) 1. Milk Creek (Rio Blanco County and Moffat County, Colo.), Battle of, 1879. 2. Ute IndiansWars, 1879. 3. Ute IndiansGovernment relations. 4. United States. Army. Cavalry, 5th. 5. Meeker, Nathan Cook, 1814-1879. I title.
E83.879.M56 1997 973.8 ' 3dc21 97-22971 CIP
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1948
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This book is dedicated to my parents, Frank and Betty Rose, and to the memory of the Fort Fred Steele garrison June 1868November 1886
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Contents
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xv
Chapter 1
Seeds of Discord
1
Chapter 2
The White River Expedition
11
Chapter 3
March to Milk Creek
27
Chapter 4
September 29, 1879
53
Chapter 5
Entrenchment at Milk Creek
85
Chapter 6
The Whitest Black Men in the Cavalry
95
Chapter 7
Merritt's Lightning March
125
Chapter 8
Aftermath
145
Appendix A
Roster of Expeditionary Troops and Civilians
161
Appendix B
Casualties at Milk Creek September 29 October 5, 1879
171
Appendix C
Citations for Bravery at the Battle of Milk Creek
181
Appendix D
Official Reports and Selected Correspondence Regarding the Milk Creek Battle
193
Bibliography
231
Index
241
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Preface
one wonders how we learn from our past if our historical legacy is little more than a series of inaccuracies passed from one generation to the next. Christian J. Buys, 19861
National attention riveted on northwestern Colorado in the fall of 1879 when U.S. troops from Fort Fred Steele in Wyoming Territory fought a pitched battle with Ute Indians in an isolated Rocky Mountain valley in Colorado. Called the White River Expedition, the military detail led by Major Thomas T. Thornburgh was sent to arrest insurgent Ute Indian leaders at the White River Agency, Colorado. The expedition marched over one hundred fifty miles in nine days, September 21 to September 29, 1879, before it reached Milk Creek, twenty-two miles short of its destination on the Ute Reservation. There, just inside the northern border of the reservation, troops met armed resistance from a Ute force; a quiet valley erupted in prolonged and bloody conflict. On the same day that engagement began, Utes killed all of the male employees at the agency and took women and children hostage. Details of the outbreak at the agency, known as the Meeker Massacre, and subsequent changes in Indian policy have been covered in a number of publications, but I focus on the drama of the hardships endured and courage of the members of the expedition.
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