Personal Recollections of Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil WarWerner Company, 1897 - 591 pages |
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... Trail -The Indians at Bay - An Exciting Engagement - A Hot Pursuit - Apostrophe to the Red River - A Norther and a Deluge . 156-171 CHAPTER XII . KIOWAS AND COMANCHES . The Kiowas and Comanches on the War Path - Attack on the Supply ...
... Trail -The Indians at Bay - An Exciting Engagement - A Hot Pursuit - Apostrophe to the Red River - A Norther and a Deluge . 156-171 CHAPTER XII . KIOWAS AND COMANCHES . The Kiowas and Comanches on the War Path - Attack on the Supply ...
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... trails . It is probable that some tribes cultivated the ground more a hundred years ago than they do now . The cultivation of the Indian corn was one of their principal industries , and in the early campaigns against them , this product ...
... trails . It is probable that some tribes cultivated the ground more a hundred years ago than they do now . The cultivation of the Indian corn was one of their principal industries , and in the early campaigns against them , this product ...
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... trail which would save me something more than five miles in distance , and as it was dark I had no hopes of gain- ing one of the stations along the route , but was obliged to keep to the trail , trusting to my mount to take me out of ...
... trail which would save me something more than five miles in distance , and as it was dark I had no hopes of gain- ing one of the stations along the route , but was obliged to keep to the trail , trusting to my mount to take me out of ...
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... trails of the latter . After the Indians had been thoroughly cleared out of that country , and before it became settled by the white people , game was found in great abundance . In October , 1879 , I left Fort Keogh , Montana , with a ...
... trails of the latter . After the Indians had been thoroughly cleared out of that country , and before it became settled by the white people , game was found in great abundance . In October , 1879 , I left Fort Keogh , Montana , with a ...
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... trails , sent some cavalry , with two companies of Pawnees under Major North , to where they crossed Salt Creek ; and those troops took this band in as they came north to join Bent . The chief of the Indian party , an old Sioux , when ...
... trails , sent some cavalry , with two companies of Pawnees under Major North , to where they crossed Salt Creek ; and those troops took this band in as they came north to join Bent . The chief of the Indian party , an old Sioux , when ...
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