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Title: Ab-sa-ra-ka; or, Wyoming opened:
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: (Carrington, Margaret Irvin Sullivant) 1831-1870. (from old catalog) Carrington, Henry Beebee, 1824-1912, ed
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life Indians of North America Indians of North America Crow Indians Fetterman Fight, Wyo., 1866
Publisher: Philadelphia (etc.) J.B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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uing spring, the small force, then disposable,was sufiicient to prevent incursions and guardthe emigrant trains which almost daily passedwestward. Under direction of the government a carefulsurvey of the Platte River was made in March,1866, with view to a proposed bridge-crossingfor the Union Pacific Railroad at Port Kearney.Scouting-parties visited the Republican and itsforks, and brought back an actual detailed ac-count of the timber which could be used forbridge-piles, without encountering an Indian orcrossing a fresh trail. A large body of Pawnees, of various bands,headed by Pe-ta-la-sha-ra (Chowee) visited thepost, left their squaws upon the islands of thePlatte, to tan beaver-skins in peace, and made aprotracted buffalo-hunt on the Republican, with-out contact with hostile Sioux or Cheyennes. Inview of past raids, and the proposed dischargeof so many volunteers, it was deemed necessaryto supplement the small force on the overlandstage-routes, by calling Pawnees, fast foes of the
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LA-HIC-TA-PA-LA-SHA.Pipe Chief—Pawnee. Page 264. INDIAN AFFAIRS ON THE PLAINS. 265 Sioux, into the United States service. A bat-talion of four companies, under Major North, wasmustered in, and notwithstanding the hidicroustableau presented, when four hundred Indianssat erect in McClelland saddles, clothed in fulluniform, cap and ostrich feather included, andarmed with carbine, revolver, hatchet, knife, etc.,it did look warlike, because the men could easilystrip, for real work, and they would fight Siouxas a matter of luxury. The winter passed quietly. The proposedMontana expedition was organized, and fulfilledits destiny, as detailed in Mrs. Carringtons Nar-rative ; and the careful reader of its quiet para-graphs will find many suggestions which, in thelight of subsequent history, reflect much lightupon the merits of that enterprise./ It is a matter of history that neither GeneralPope, who ordered the expedition, nor GeneralSherman, who believed that it would ensure asafe emigrant r

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