The Bozeman Trail: Historical Accounts of the Blazing of the Overland Routes Into the Northwest, and the Fights with Red Cloud's Warriors, Volume 2Arthur H. Clark Company, 1922 - Indians of North America |
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Page 259 - The United States hereby agrees and stipulates that the country north of the North Platte River and east of the summits of the Big Horn Mountains shall be held and considered to be unceded Indian territory, and also stipulates and agrees that no white person or persons shall be permitted to settle upon or occupy any portion of the same; or without the consent of the Indians first had and obtained, to pass through the same...
Page 44 - That night we, who had been on picket duty all day, formed the guard around the camp. Two sentinels were posted, one at the east end and one at the west end of the corral, with strict orders from Captain Powell to allow no one to enter the camp, and to challenge anyone or anything approaching; also, if there was the slightest suspicion in our minds, to open fire upon the approaching objects, or upon anything that looked like Indians.
Page 250 - Bridgei's claims to n membrance rest upon the extraordinary part he bore in the explorations of the West. As a guide he was without an equal, and this is the testimony of everyone who ever employed him. He was a born topographer; the whole West was mapped out in his mind, and such was his instinctive sense of locality and direction that it used to be said of him that he could smell his way where he could not see it.
Page 217 - Whitman was called to perform some very important surgical operations. He extracted an iron arrow, three inches long, from the back of Capt. Bridger, which was received in a skirmish three years before, with the Blackfeet Indians. It was a difficult operation, because the arrow was hooked at the point by striking a large bone, and a cartilaginous substance had grown around it. The doctor pursued the operation with great self-possession...
Page 179 - Fetterman, with his command of eighty officers and men, was overpowered and massacred, they killed ninety-one enlisted men and five officers of our army, and killed fiftyeight citizens and wounded twenty more, and captured and drove away three hundred and six oxen and cows, three hundred and four mules, and one hundred and sixty-one horses. During this time they appeared in front of Fort Philip Kearney, making hostile demonstrations and committing hostile acts, fifty-one different times, and attacked...
Page 259 - ... the interest of the nation and of humanity, to put an end to this inhuman farce. The Peace Commission, the Indian Department, the military and the Indian make a balky team.
Page 7 - A dirge for the brave old pioneer ! The patriarch of his tribe! He sleeps — no pompous pile marks where, No lines his deeds describe. They raised no stone above him here, Nor carved his deathless name — An empire is his sepulchre, His epitaph is Fame.* •The last stanza of this ode was written before Daniel Boone's monument had been erected.
Page 229 - Creek or Tongue River, down which we were to march. I galloped on and overtook the Major, and as I came up to him, overheard him remark about "these damn paper collar soldiers' telling him there were no columns of smoke.
Page 217 - It is like the country we have passed through, an almost entire prairie, with some woods skirting the streams of water. The American Fur Company have between two and three hundred men constantly in and about the mountains, engaged in trading, hunting, and trapping. These all assemble at rendezvous...