Ken Campbell
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Without a word of reply, Field reigned out of column, glanced along the double file of his platoon, nodded a signal fall out to Sergeant Scott, and the men nearest him at the front merely said Advance guard.
and then proceeded to choose his corporals and men of flankers.
No need to tell Scott what to do.
He had been leading scouts in Arizona long ere Field had even dreamed of West Point.
In five minutes riding at an easy lope, carbines advanced, three little parties of four troopers, each were spreading far out to the front and flank, guarding the little column against the possibility of sudden assault from hidden foe.
Here upon the level prairie one would think such precaution needless if
But every acre of the surface was seamed and gullied by twisting little water courses, dry as a chip at the moment, and some of them so deep as to afford cover even for the biggest pony of the wild warriors of the plains.
Then to the front of the barrier ridges streaked with deep winding ravines were now billowing against the northward sky, and once among these tangled land waves no chance of
that the Sioux had declared for war, and that Straber's band was out to join the Red Brethren in the oft reoccurring outbreak, until their lands were crisscrossed by the railways and their mountain haunts re echoed to the scream of the iron horse next to nothing would start an Indian war.
It took so long to reach the scene with troops in sufficient numbers to command their respect, and at this moment the situation was grave in the extreme.
There had been bad blood and frequent collision between the cattlemen, herders, hustlers, especially hustlers, and the hunting parties of the Sioux in the northern Cheyenne, who clung to the Bighorn Range and the superb surrounding country with almost passionate love and with jealous tenacity.
There had been aggression on both sides, then bloodshed, then attempts on part of frontier sheriffs to arrest accused or suspected red men, an equally determined and banded effort to prevent arrest of accused and identified whites.
By due process of law, as administered in the days whereof we write, the Indian was pretty sure to get the worst of every difference, and therefore preferred not, unnaturally, his own time honored method of settlement, and
In accordance therewith, had they scalped the sheriff's posse, that had shot two of their young braves who had availed themselves of a purposely given chance to escape, and then in their undiscriminating zeal, the Sioux had opened fire from ambush on plotters huntering parties and the choppers at Wood Camp, who defended themselves as best they could, to the end that more men, red and white were killed.
The Indians rallied in force and closed in about Fort Becher, driving the survivors to shelter within its guarded lines, and then, when Plotter needed every man of his force to keep the foe at respectful distance, so that his bullets could not reach the quarters occupied by the women and children at the post, they reached him by night, a runner from the stage station far over to the southeast, on a dry fork of the powder, saying that
That as the north and southbound stages had taken refuge there, with only ten men all told to stand off some fifty warriors, and therefore imploring assistance.
Not daring to send a troop, Platter called for volunteers to bear dispatches to Major Webb at Frain, and Pat Kennedy, with half a dozen brave lads, had promptly stepped forward.
Kennedy had managed to slip through the encircling Sioux by night.
night and to reach Fort Frayne after a daring and almost desperate ride.
Then Ray was ordered forth, first to raise the siege at the stage station, then either to hold the important relay ranch, or go on to reinforce Plotter, as his judgment and situation might dictate.
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