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"Terry Johnston is an authentic American treasure."--Loren D. Estleman, author of Edsel It was a day that shocked a nation. June 25, 1876. The day General George Armstrong Custer fell at Little Big Horn. Now the U.S. Army is on the march. Vowing revenge, its commanders have declared total war on the Cheyenne and Sioux. Every able-bodied man must answer the call of the cavalry trumpet . . . men such as frontiersman Buffalo Bill Cody and scout Seamus Donegan. From the Black Hills to Slim Buttes, from Yellowstone to Warbonnet Creek, some would succumb to ambush, some to starvation, others to disease and even madness. Under the blood-red sun of that terrible summer, Seamus Donegan prays only to survive . . . to return to his wife, Samantha, and witness the birth of their first child.… (más)
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At Laramie I told the commissioners that I had seen the Sioux commit a massacre; they killed many white men. But the Sioux are still here, and still kill white men. When you whites whip the Sioux come and tell us of it. You are afraid of the Sioux. Two years ago I went with the soldiers; they talked very brave. they said they were going through the Sioux country to Powder River and Tongue River. WE got to Pryor Creek, just below here in Crow country. I wanted to go ahead, but the soldiers got scared and turned back. the soldiers were the whirlwind, but the whirlwind turned back. Last summer the soldiers went to Pryor creek again; again the whirlwind was going through Sioux country, but again the whirlwind turned back. We Crows are not the whirlwind, but we go to the Sioux; we go to their country; we meet them and fight them; we do not turn back, but then we are not the whirlwind! ... The Sioux are on the way, and you are afraid of them; they will turn the whirlwind back. Blackfoot Crow War Chief
The people must be left with nothing but their eyes to weep with. Lt Gen Philip H Sheridan
The "Sibley Scout" is famous among Indian fighters as being one of the narrowest escapes from savages now on record
Editorial
The New York Tribune
Toward the end of the perilous march [of the Sibley patrol], we all became so weakened that we marched for ten minutes and then would lie down and rest. Several of the more robust men became insane, and one or two never regained their wits.
Lt Frederick W Sibley
For the Indiana who gloried in the victory of the Little Big Horn, Slim Buttes heralded the retaliatory blows, that ultimately broke their resistance and forced their submission...the actions of Sept 9 and 10, 1876, commenced the relentless punitive warfare that was to be waged over the next eight months, until the tribesmen either had died or had gone peaceably to the agencies - Jerome A Green, Slim Buttes, 1876
[The skirmish at Warbonnet Creek] is one of the few cases where a large body of Indiana was successfully ambushed by troops. - Don Russel Campaigning with King
... many a suffering stomach gladdened with a welcome change from horse meat, tough and stringy, to the rib roasts of pony, grass-fed, sweet, and succulent. there is no such sauce as starvation. - Lt Charles King Campaigning with Crook
The terrible persistence with which [Crook] urged his faint, starving, foot-soar, tattered soldiers along the trail, to which he clung with a resolution and a determination that nothing could shake, entitles him to the respect and admiration of his countrymen - a respect and admiration, by the way, which was fully accorded him by his gallant and equally desperate goes - Cyrus Townsend Brady Indian Fights and Fighters
Only the brave and fearless can be just - Old Lakota [Sioux] proverb
For acting to stop the Cheyennes, [Merritt] was commended by General Sheridan; for delaying the march of the Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition for a week, he was blamed by General Crook. - Don Russell The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill
The battle [of Slim Buttes] was one of the most picturesque ever fought in the West. Crook and his officers stood in the camp, the center of a vast amphitheater ringed with fire, up the sides of which the soldiers steadily climbed to get tat the Indians, silhouetted in all their war finery against the sky. - Cyrus Townsend Brady Indian Fights and Fighters
Slim Buttes was touted as a victory for the army, but ti was a shabby victory at best and accomplished nothing beyond angering the Indians. The dawn attack had felled women and children, and when the tribesmen crept back into the village after the military withdrawal, they confronted heartrending scenes. Many of the groups in the vicinity of Slim Buttes, including the one struck by Mills, had intended to surrender at an agency. The sight of women and children maimed or slain by army bullets dampened that impulse. - Robert M Utley The Lance and the Shield
Sitting Bull had warned his people not to take any spoils from the Little Big Horn battle[field], or the soldiers would crush them. The Slim Buttes battle was part of the prophecy which came true. - Fred H Wener The Slim Buttes Battle
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For all the miles and memories we have shared together, this book is affectionately dedicated to my Canadian saddle partner
Brian Taylor
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Foreword - At the beginning of some chapters and scenes you will red the same news stories devoured by the offers' wives and the civilians employed at the posts or those in adjacent frontier settlements - just what Samantha Donnegan herself would have read - taken from the front page of the daily newspapers that arrived as much as a week late (and sometimes more), that delay due to the wilderness distances to be traveled by freight carriers.
Prologue - "I hear water's better when you mix it with whiskey."
[skipped news article] John Bourke finished the second of two copies he had made that morning of Crook's letter to General Philip Sheridan.
Citas
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"Terry Johnston is an authentic American treasure."--Loren D. Estleman, author of Edsel It was a day that shocked a nation. June 25, 1876. The day General George Armstrong Custer fell at Little Big Horn. Now the U.S. Army is on the march. Vowing revenge, its commanders have declared total war on the Cheyenne and Sioux. Every able-bodied man must answer the call of the cavalry trumpet . . . men such as frontiersman Buffalo Bill Cody and scout Seamus Donegan. From the Black Hills to Slim Buttes, from Yellowstone to Warbonnet Creek, some would succumb to ambush, some to starvation, others to disease and even madness. Under the blood-red sun of that terrible summer, Seamus Donegan prays only to survive . . . to return to his wife, Samantha, and witness the birth of their first child.
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