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Lädt ... The Warren Wagontrain Raid (1974)von Benjamin Capps
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. For the first time, the story of this important Indian raid has been told in its entirety: the author vividly recreates the incident as viewed by all participants - soldiers, settlers, and three generations of Kiowa Indians. In May 1871 Satanta, a senior war chief at the height of his power among the Kiowas, led a party of more than 100 braves into the north Texas plains. With him were two other chiefs: Seventy-year-old Tsatangya, the most prestigious Kiowa chief, and twenty-two-year-old Big Tree, known for his daring in combat. As Satanta led his warriors toward a point on the Butterfield Trail, a small U.S. military party moved toward the same place. The leader of this group, General William Tecumseh Sherman, was there to determine whether the southwestern frontier was under any serious threat from Indian raiding. The night after General Sherman's party arrived at nearby Fort Richardson, a wounded civilian staggered into the fort. Indians had ambushed a supply train not twenty miles away, leaving seven men dead and several wounded. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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A novelistic account of the Warren Wagontrain Raid and its aftermath. The Warren Wagontrain Raid--one of the most important and controversial events in nineteenth-century Texas history--took place in the spring of 1871, near the present town of Graham. A band of Kiowa attacked a wagontrain belonging to Captain Henry Warren, a government contractor, killing a wagonmaster and six teamsters. One man was tied to a wagon wheel and burned alive; all were scalped except one who was bald. Forty-one mules were stolen. Only five men escaped. As a result of this brutal massacre General William Tecumseh Sherman began to take Indian activity on the frontier more seriously; ultimately, the raid gave impetus to the final removal of the threat of Indian attack in Texas. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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