THE OLD SANTA FE TRAIL, COLONEL HENRY INMAN [well read books .txt] 📗

The Atchison, Topeka, And Santa Fe Railroad Track Runs Very

Close To The Mound, And There Is A Station Named for The Great Mesa.

 

 

 

[67] The Venerable Colonel A. S. Johnson, Of Topeka, Kansas,

The First White Child Born On The Great State'S Soil, Who Related

To Me This Adventure Of Hatcher'S, Knew Him Well.  He Says That He

Was A Small Man, Full Of Muscle, And As Fearless As Can Be Conceived.

Chapter XXIV (Footnotes)

[68] The Place Where They Turned is About A Hundred yards East Of

The Court House Square, In the Present Town Of Great Bend; It May

Be Seen From The Cars.

 

 

 

[69] See Sheridan'S _Memoirs_, Custer'S _Life On The Plains_, And

Buffalo Bill'S Book, In which All The Stirring Events Of That

Campaign--Nearly Every Fight Of Which Was North Or Far South Of The

Santa Fe Trail--Are Graphically Told.

 

 

 

[70] A Grandson Of Alexander Hamilton; Killed at The Battle Of The

Washita, In the Charge On Black Kettle'S Camp Under Custer.

 

 

 

[71] This Ends Custer'S Narrative.  The Following Fight, Which

Occurred a Few Days Afterward, At The Mouth Of Mulberry Creek,

Twelve Miles Below Fort Dodge, And Within A Stone'S Throw Of The

Old Trail, Was Related to Me Personally By Colonel Keogh, Who Was

Killed at The Rosebud, In custer'S Disastrous Battle With Sitting Bull.

We Were Both Attached to General Sully'S Staff.

 

 

 

[72] It Was In this Fight That Colonel Keogh'S Celebrated horse

Comanche Received his First Wound.  It Will Be Remembered that

Comanche And A Crow Indian Were The Only Survivors Of That Unequal

Contest In the Valley Of The Big Horn, Commonly Called the Battle

Of The Rosebud, Where Custer And His Command Was Massacred.

 

 

 

[73] Now Kendall, A Little Village In hamilton County, Kansas.

 

 

 

[74] Raton Is The Name Given By The Early Spaniards To This Range,

Meaning Both Mouse And Squirrel.  It Had Its Origin Either In the

Fact That One Of Its Several Peaks Bore A Fanciful Resemblance To

A Squirrel, Or Because Of The Immense Numbers Of That Little Rodent

Always To Be Found In its Pine Forests.

 

 

 

[75] In the Beautiful Language Of The Country'S Early Conquerors,

"Las Cumbres Espanolas," Or "Las Dos Hermanas" (The Two Sisters),

And In the Ute Tongue, "Wahtoya" (The Twins).

Chapter XXIV (Footnotes)

[76] The House Was Destroyed by Fire Two Or Three Years Ago.

 

 

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