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  Among these were Young-Man: Ambrose, p. 136.

  His ethereal quality: Bray, Crazy Horse, p. 72.

  “hardly every looked straight”: Ibid.

  “If white men come”: Matthiessen, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, p. 115.

  In her classic book: Johnson, The Bloody Bozeman, pp. 3–4.

  “He was a farmer”: Ibid.

  “We thought it an impossibility”: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 15.

  “and the majority actually made”: M. Carrington, Absaraka, p. 37.

  He charmed the officers’ wives: Smith, Give Me Eighty Men, p. 25.

  But when Sherman met with Carrington: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 24.

  If Sherman felt: Smith, p. 25.

  Chapter Twenty-Four: Colonel Carrington’s Circus

  Someone dubbed the long train: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 25.

  It passed cool, clear streams: M. Carrington, Absaraka, p. 71.

  “We had no occasion”: Bisbee, Through Four American Wars, p. 162.

  “Fighting men in that country”: Indian Hostilities, Senate Executive Document No. 33, pp. 3–4.

  “in assorted sizes”: Bisbee, p. 166.

  The latter two: Larson, Red Cloud, p. 90.

  “In two moons the command”: Indian Hostilities, p. 18.

  The threat was followed: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 43.

  “The Great Father sends us presents”: Brown, The American West, p. 85.

  Carrington tried to answer: Monnett, Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed, p. 27.

  Later that day the commanding officer: F. Carrington, My Army Life, pp. 124–25.

  Red Cloud, he said: Ibid.

  Red Cloud, observed Margaret Carrington: M. Carrington, Absaraka, p. 79.

  Chapter Twenty-Five: Here Be Monsters

  “a disgusting farce”: Special Commission Investigating the Fort Philip Kearny Massacre, July 29, 1867.

  Satisfactory treaty concluded: Ambrose, Crazy Horse and Custer, p. 229.

  “They follow ye always”: M. Carrington, Absaraka, p. 83.

  When Carrington asked Mills: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 50.

  “was lumbering around”: Ambrose, p. 291.

  A blinding summer hailstorm: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 57.

  “We’ll never see an Indian”: M. Carrington, p. 95.

  “constant separation and scattering”: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 60.

  The words were barely: Ibid., p. 58.

  Chapter Twenty-Six: The Perfect Fort

  “was like the quick turn”: M. Carrington, Absaraka, p. 26.

  “At last we had the prospect”: Ibid., p. 67.

  The Indians professed amity: Bisbee, Through Four American Wars, p. 168.

  “The White Man lies”: Ibid.

  Chapter Twenty-Seven: “Mercifully Kill All the Wounded”

  One private noted in his journal: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 78.

  His eight infantry companies: Fort Phil Kearny plaque, Wyoming Historical Society.

  “He said that he had a presentiment”: F. Carrington, My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearny Massacre, p. 74.

  “Our condition was now becoming”: Hebard and Brininstool, The Bozeman Trail, p. 91.

  “I am a friend”: F. Carrington, p. 80.

  Chapter Twenty-Eight: Roughing It

  “Character of Indian affairs hostile”: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 33, pp. 12–13.

  “I must do all this”: Ibid.

  “a strategic chief”: Hebard and Brininstool, The Bozeman Trail, p. 121.

  August 1866 was the high point: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 145.

  “breezy in winter”: Fort Phil Kearny plaque, Wyoming Historical Society.

  As the historian Shannon Smith notes: Smith, Give Me Eighty Men, p. 42.

  seemed “to have been ideally suited”: Ibid.

  “commanding presence”: Ibid.

  The eldest of seven children: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 151.

  “most precious and rare”: Fort Phil Kearny plaque.

  Doughnuts, gingerbread: Ibid.

  Chapter Twenty-Nine: A Thin Blue Line

  “vile jokes and curses”: F. Carrington, My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearny Massacre, p. 121.

  “Hardly three minutes”: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 122.

  If in fact the raids were led: Papers of William T. Sherman.

  “Tell the rascals”: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 33.

  “We must try to distinguish”: Fort Phil Kearny plaque, Wyoming Historical Society.

  The post’s tiny guardhouse: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 127.

  “brief tongue lashing”: F. Carrington, p. 121.

  “constantly scanning”: Ibid.

  Chapter Thirty: Fire in the Belly

  He did it so often: Guthrie, “The Fetterman Massacre,” p. 717.

  He was finally relieved: Monnett, Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed, p. 117.

  His actions not only allowed: U.S. War Department, Official Records, Ser. 1, Vol. 98, Part 1, pp. 495–507.

  The two Mrs. Grummonds: Smith, Give Me Eighty Men, p. 68.

  “had not died brave”: Bisbee, Through Four American Wars, p. 170.

  “My whole being seemed”: F. Carrington, My Army Life, p. 154.

  Crazy Horse had never shown interest: Bray, Crazy Horse, p. 72.

  Together they had hauled nearly: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 129.

  According to Army manifests: Ibid., p. 137.

  “restoring invalids”: Ibid.

  “to secure personal knowledge”: M. Carrington, Absaraka, p. 172.

  Chapter Thirty-One: High Plains Drifters

  Quick with his Navy Colt: Gail Schontzler, Bozeman Daily Chronicle, January 23, 2011.

  On reaching the Kansas line: Ibid.

  Actually, the cagey Story: Brown and Schmidt, Trail Driving Days, p. 118.

  But the remuda left: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 141.

  Part V: The Massacre

  Chapter Thirty-Two: Fetterman

  “looked for with glad anticipation”: M. Carrington, Absaraka, p. 245.

  “I hope to be yet able”: Monnett, Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed, p. 103.

  “We are afflicted”: 1867 hearings, U.S. Senate, Bisbee testimony, p. 4.

  Yet despite his and the others’ “disgust”: Ibid., Arnold testimony, p. 5.

  “the feeling was not harmonious”: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 33.

  Even relatively mundane annoyances: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 154.

  “You are hereby instructed”: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 33.

  Chapter Thirty-Three: Dress Rehearsal

  “or return to the post”: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 33.

  Carrington sputtered: 1867 hearings, U.S. Senate, Wands testimony.

  a “coward or a fool”: Ibid., Bisbee testimony, p. 79.

  He could hear a repulsive click: Hebard and Brininstool, The Bozeman Trail, p. 99.

  Finally, he jammed the sword: F. Carrington, My Army Life, p. 134.

  “I cannot account”: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 13, pp. 37–38.

  “This Indian War has become”: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 166.

  “deepened from that hour”: F. Carrington, p. 134.

  Chapter Thirty-Four: Soldiers in Both Hands

  “Your men who fought”: Vestal, Jim Bridger, p. 270.

  It was filling rapidly: Hebard and Brininstool, The Bozeman Trail, p. 99.

  “buffalo-lined hip boots”: Bisbee, Through Four American Wars, p. 176.

  “Your brother was much esteemed”: Old Travois Trails 3, no. 3 (1942), 65.

  “heed the lessons”: F. Carrington, My Army Life, p. 135.

  On his way out the door: Vestal, Jim Bridger, p. 273.

  When a hermaphrodite: Hyde, Red Cloud’s Folk, p. 147.
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br />   The war chief waved his arm: Brown, “Red Cloud of the Sioux,” p. 91.

  When asked how many: Hyde, p. 147.

  Chapter Thirty-Five: The Half-Man’s Omen

  From here, with his captured: Brown, “Red Cloud of the Sioux,” p. 90.

  He acquiesced: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 33.

  “and never leave him”: F. Carrington, My Army Life, p. 143.

  To this exchange: Wands testimony, 1867 hearings, U.S. Senate, p. 8.

  “and was moving wisely”: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 33.

  “perfect vantage ground”: Ibid.

  “entertaining no further thought”: Henry Carrington’s testimony, in Monnett, Wild West Magazine (October 2010).

  The wispy brave: Bray, Crazy Horse, p. 96.

  He turned his back: Christopher Morton interview.

  Chapter Thirty-Six: Broken Arrows

  “continuous and rapid”: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 12.

  “the largest”: Arnold testimony, 1867 hearings, U.S. Senate.

  It remains on display: Smith, Give Me Eighty Men, p. 119.

  The official Army report: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 33.

  Chapter Thirty-Seven: “Like Hogs Brought to Market”

  One of the civilians: J. B. Weston testimony, 1867 hearings, U.S. Senate, p. 5.

  “There’s the men down there”: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 12.

  “The silence”: Ibid., p. 186.

  “Captain Ten Eyck says”: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 33, p. 46.

  “The Captain is afraid”: Ibid.

  Perhaps he also anticipated: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 190.

  “You could have saved”: Ibid., p. 185.

  He was the only trooper: Horton testimony, 1867 hearings, U.S. Senate, p. 4.

  “We brought in about fifty”: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 13, p. 15.

  “horrible and sickening”: F. Carrington, My Army Life, p. 149.

  “bright, piercing eyes”: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 192.

  “I will go if it costs”: F. Carrington, p. 149.

  Then he turned and left: Ibid.

  Throughout all this: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 191.

  Without immediate reinforcements: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 33, pp. 49–50.

  I send a copy of dispatch: Ibid.

  “Good,” he said: Ostrander, An Army Boy, p. 194.

  Chapter Thirty-Eight: Fear and Mourning

  “If in my absence”: F. Carrington, My Army Life, p. 151.

  “It was,” wrote a witness: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 197.

  “Some had crosses cut”: Guthrie, “The Fetterman Massacre,” p. 717.

  Someone remarked that such: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 199.

  A few hundred yards: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 13, p. 65.

  Piles of spent Henry rifle cartridges: Bray, Crazy Horse, p. 101.

  Outside the defensive circle: Ibid.

  “all the honor”: Rocky Bear 1902 statement, Addison Sheldon Papers, Nebraska State Historical Society.

  “horrid massacre”: Murray, The Bozeman Trail, pp. 45–46.

  Epilogue

  “the completeness of the massacre”: Momett, Where a Hundred Soldiers Died, p. 96.

  “We must act”: Report of the Secretary of War to the Senate, Document No. 15.

  “operations within my command”: National Archives and Records Administration, Papers Accompanying the Report to General-in-Chief, p. 3.

  “passed over 455 miles”: Ibid.

  “I know how to fight”: Wyoming Historical Society interpretive sign at Wagon Box Fight site.

  “One general ominously informed”: Larson, Red Cloud, p. 115.

  Major General Christopher C. Auger: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 224.

  “unprecedented in the history”: Yenne, Sitting Bull, p. 50.

  “As a consequence”: Paul, Autobiography of Red Cloud, p. 7.

  “No one who listened”: New York Times, June 17, 1868.

  “Now we are melting like snow”: Larson, p. 132.

  “Red Cloud saw too much”: Ibid.

  “I shall not go to war”: Ibid., p. 150.

  “God made this earth”: Eli Ricker Collection.

  “Shadows are long and dark”: Red Cloud Heritage Center.

  “When Red Cloud fought”: New York Times, December 11, 1909.

  “From the perspective”: Moten, Between War and Peace, p. 150.

  “And yet the general”: Ibid., p. 151.

  “My only answer”: Bisbee, Through Four American Wars, p. 166.

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