INDEX.

 

A

Abilene trail, 16

Absentee Shawnees, 96

Adair, William Penn, Cherokee, 92, 388

Adams Co., Ohio, 60

Adams Express Company, 434

Adams, Geo. M., 396

Adams, H. S., (Arkansas City freighter), 406

Adams, 300

Adams, Tommy, 103

Adams, Walter, 170

Addo Etah or Adoltay (Big Tree), 7

Adenas, 421-422

Adj. General, second biennial report, 1879-80, Kansas, 43

Adjutant General Moorhouse, 252

Adjutant General P. S. Noble, 43, 49-50

Adjutant General, this is by order of the, 70

Adobe, No use fight, 309

Adobe Walls, 12, 13, 295, 309

Adoltay or Addo Etah (Big Tree), 7

Aetna, 424

Affidavit, 64

Affidavits, 149, 157, 259, 333

Afghan Commission, 423

After the war, 13, 363

Agricola, 190

Ahasuerus and the Persians, 384

Ah-hun-ke-mi, (Bill Conner), 217-218

Ah hu shin-kak, 101

Akin, Our friend, formerly of Council Grove, has a mill at this place, 124

Alaska-Siberian corridor, 421

Albany, N. Y., 34

Albuquerque, 423

Alderdice, Thomas, 252-253

Alemono, 136

Alexander, Broome, and Walton, 109

Alexander, Dr., 163

Alexander, J. M., 66

Alexander, Lamport & Co., 435

Alexander, Mrs. G. C., (Mary Jane), 428-429

Alexander’s hair, 109


Allen, Geo., 151

Allen, Walter, 169

Allison, 71, 369

Allison, from Committee on Indian Affairs, 351-352

Alaska, 421

Alaska-Siberian corridor, 421

Alton, 32

Altoona, 124

American Agriculturist, 18

American bridle, 294

American captives, 293

American Chief, (Kaw village), 123

American Civil War, 39

American continent, 209, 360-361

American Eagle Tiffany grip, (“boss pistol”), 41

American Emigrant Company, 326

American flag, 105

American flags, 93

American history, 115

American Horse, 366, 370

American independence, 134

American mounds, 421

American past, 421-422

American Revolution, 418

Americans, 424

American scenery, 423

American-style soldiers, 53

American West, 15

American Woman’s Home Mission Society, 215

Americus, 124-126

Anadarko, 30, 295, 319, 336

Anadarko Post Office, 339

Analyzing the structure of the universe, 19

Ancient American past, 421-422

Ancient ruins (Sonora), 422

Ancient skeletons, 421

Anderson, Billy, 71

Anderson, Maj., 37

Andes, 424

Andrews, 374

Andrews, Sept., 435

Andrews, W. W., 349, 361, 372-373

Angell, Col. A. J., 60


Anglos, 12

Annuities, 47, 223, 229, 237, 239, 254, 337

Annuity, 81, 95, 99-102, 115, 118-119, 123, 139, 211, 247, 299, 304, 308-309, 407

Antelope Hills, 263, 296-297

Anthony, D. R., Ed. Times, 261

Apache John, (Tonkawa), 158

Apaches, (Not part of Kiowa-Apache), 94, 237, 286, 306

Apaches (Kiowa-Apache), 48, 96, 281

Apatches (C. M. Scott spelling of Kiowa-Apache), 406, 409

Appropriation, 14, 58, 84, 89, 95, 132, 149, 157, 164, 170, 192, 195, 210, 319, 321, 339

Appropriations, 64, 247, 276, 362

Arapaho, 11, 20, 61, 92, 163, 225, 233, 257, 272, 274, 283-284, 289, 291-293, 297, 318, 322, 339

Arapaho and Cheyenne reservation, 145

Arapaho and Cheyenne tanning, 272

Arapaho dance, 194

Arapaho history, 289-290

Arapahos, 48, 96, 209, 230-231, 237-239, 242, 244, 248-250, 257-258, 277, 281, 285, 297, 336-337, 347-348, 366,  403-404 

Arapaho school, 290

Arapaho school boys, 284

Arbold, Harriett, 425

Arbuckle, 237, 241

Archaeologists, 420-421

Arickaree Fork of the Republican River, 235, 239

Arizona, 94, 129, 278, 423

Ar-ka-kee-ka, The Warrior, 200

Arkansas and Salt Fork Rivers, divide between the, 289

Arkansas, Big Bend of the, 240

Arkansas bridge, 149

Arkansas City & Southern Express Co., 201

Arkansas City, Arkansas, 28

Arkansas City Democrat, 284

Arkansas, district of the, 229

Arkansas, go to guard the line of the, 238

Arkansas City, Kansas, 14-17, 19, 23, 26-29, 31-34, 36, 41-43, 47-49, 60, 62, 65, 70-71, 73, 75, 77-78, 93, 97-98, 113, 115-117, 127-131, 133, 139-140, 142, 145-146, 148-149, 153-156, 160, 163, 165, 173-174, 179-180, 182-185, 192-193, 195, 200, 203, 208, 210, 212-213, 216-220, 259, 261, 176, 278, 284, 286, 292, 303, 307, 320-321, 332, 335, 339, 369-371, 374, 399-400, 404, 414-415, 421, 425-430, 433-436

Arkansas City militia, 71

Arkansas City Republican, 117, 139, 223, 290, 398, 434-436

Arkansas City’s history, early days of, 417


Arkansas City’s postmaster, 429

Arkansas City Traveler, 14, 27-30, 32-36, 38, 40-41, 49, 52, 55, 65, 67, 70-72, 75, 78-120, 129-139, 142-206, 209-218, 220-223, 260, 262, 270-290, 292, 316-324, 329-334, 338-340, 348-349, 351-364, 366-372, 374-381, 391-397, 399-415, 418, 423, 425, 429, 434

Arkansas Post, a Quapaw village on the Arkansas River, 107

Arkansas, (Quapaw Indians), 107

Arkansas, (River), 15-18, 20-24, 26-27, 31, 33, 43, 51, 57, 60-61, 77, 81-82, 84, 89, 93, 106-108, 110, 117, 125, 127-128, 130-132, 139-140, 146, 183, 207-208, 214, 216, 222, 225, 229, 236-239, 241, 243, 256, 289, 296, 303, 335-336, 387, 389, 391, 395-396, 413, 429, 433, 436

Arkansas River Navigation Company, 90

Arkansas River, Red Fork of, (Sometimes called Cimarron), 288

Arkansas (State), 11, 16, 28, 51-52, 54, 91, 99, 106-107, 168, 208, 347, 361, 392-393

Arkansas, United States Court for the Western District of, 393

Arkansas Valley, 23, 28, 34, 41-42

Arkansas valleys, Walnut and, 22-23

Arkansaw, (Arkansas River), 208

Arlington, the Pullman car, 35

Armstrong, Capt. A. J., 233, 242

Armstrong, Robert, Deputy U. S. Surveyor, 64

Army appropriation bill, 275, 313

Asahava, 298-299

Asbury’s company, Capt., 238

Asher Creek, 230

Ash Hollow, 378

Ashley, William, 12

Ash-tie-la, meaning “Feather Head,” 406

Ashton, 216

Asia, 421

Associated press dispatches, 34-35

A. T. & S. F. Depot, 36, 258

Atchison, 34, 155, 250

Atchison Champion, 41, 340

Atchison (or Central) Branch of the Union Pacific road, 328

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, 21, 35, 261, 268, 328, 423

Athey, M., 60

Atkins, Commissioner, 197

Atlantic & Pacific railroad, 423-424

Atoka, 99, 316

Aubrey station, 262

Auchterenuchts, Scotland, 426

Audubon, the naturalist, 340, 405

Augur, Brevet Major General C. C., 239

Augur, Gen., 254


Augusta, 22, 26, 66

A. V. Democrat, 204

Aw-tas-poo, Nez Perce, 167

Ayers, Miss, 386

Ayersburg, 233

Aztecs, 422

 

B

Babbitt, John, 1st Lieutenant, 71

Babcock, General, 271

Baden, J. P., and his brother, 15

Badger and Howling Whirlwind, (Northern Cheyenne, I. T.) [Bad Indian], 44

Bad Indian, (Term given by C. M. Scott to some Indians with Little Chief, of the Northern Cheyenne, Indian Territory), 44

Bad Lands, 291, 376

Bad Wound, 366

Bahahgheah, (Kaw), 126

Baird, Prof., of the Smithsonian Institution, 391-392

Baker & Manning, 22

Baker & Vaughn, 300

Baker Ford on Cottonwood, 256

Baker, James, 112

Bald Eagle, (Cheyenne), 250

Bald Head, (Nez Perce), 186

Baldwin, B. F., 413

Baldwin, Lieutenant F. D., Fifth Infantry, 262

Balky team, 241

Ball, R. S., 217

Ball, Thomas, 305

Baltimore & Ohio railroad, 33

Baltimore [Kansas], 31, 32

Baltimore, Maryland, 34, 426

Band, 13, 44, 52, 61-62, 70, 76, 79, 95, 102, 106, 108, 110, 115, 118-119, 145, 151, 154-158, 169, 179, 181, 185, 190-193, 195-198, 201, 221, 224, 228, 230, 232, 242, 245, 249-250, 252, 258-260, 262-263, 269, 281, 285, 290-291, 297-298, 300, 303, 305, 308-309, 311, 317-318, 330, 351, 365, 372, 376, 378, 404

Bands, 52-53, 79, 96, 119, 132, 139, 179, 190, 207, 209, 224, 237, 240-241, 249-250, 252-253, 259, 261, 266, 274, 281, 285, 295, 297, 308, 323, 335, 338, 346, 361-362, 369

Bangs, 355

Bankhead, Brevet Col. H. C., 232, 239-240

Banks, A. R., 245

Baptist minister of the Creek Nation, 331

Barbour County, 40, 68, 72-73, 260, 261


Barbour County Militia, 70, 74

Barker, Jim, 47

Barneby, Batiste, 199

Barnes, Capt. F. M., 199-200

Barnett, Ira, 434

Barnettsville, Cherokee Nation, 114

Barnitz, Brevet Lieut. Col., 236

Barometer, 80

Barret’s command, Colonel, 153

Barstow, A. C., 177

Bartlow, Wm., 77, 344

Bascom, 241

Bass, Albert, 158

Battey, Thomas C., 7, 298, 405-406, 408

Battle Creek, S. D., 291

Battle of Big Hole, 177-178

Battle of Plum Creek, 294-295

Battle of the Rose Bud, 372

Battle of the Sand Hills, 288

Battle of the Washita, 236, 244, 255, 297-298, 420

Baxter, M. J., 303-304

Baxter Springs, 145, 147, 179

Bazaar, 256

Bazante, 158

Beal, Jacob, 415

Beals’ house, E. H., 221

Bear, A man hates to die like a wounded, 378

Bear, Amos, (Nez Perce), 189

Bear backwards, The Indians were chasing a, 414

Bear claws, a necklace of, 167

Bear Creek, 269

Beard, 26, 54

Beardless youth, 36

Beard & Day’s cattle range, 285

Beard & Day’s horse, 49

Beard, Rev., 282

Bear god, 95

Bear, Hairy, (Ponca Chief), 167, 169, 174

Bear Legs, [Spotted Tail’s real name], 370

Bear meat and pumpkin in the happy hunting ground, 94

Bear, Mr. Broome came in contact with a large black, 330

Bear Pan Mountain, Montana, 193

Bear, panther, and beaver  skins are used by the Osages in their “medicine works,” 108


Bears, black or brown, which are very large, 358

Bear’s-claw bracelet, 167

Bear Shield, (Ponca), 152

Bear Shield, (Cheyenne), 268

Bear Squaw, (Northern Cheyenne, I. T.), [Bad Indian], 44

Bears rather a hard name, 176

Bear stories in summer time, Osages don’t like to tell, 108

Beauregard, Old, 115

Beaver, 12, 15, 128, 235-236

Beaver, Big, and the Arkansas, confluence of, 127

Beaver Creek, 15-16, 77, 116-117, 123, 128, 134, 136-137, 209, 238, 240, 346

Beaver Creek and Canadian River, junction of, 296

Beaver Creek and the Arkansas, the divide between, 16

Beaver Creek, near the mouth of, on to the so-called “Cherokee Strip,” 386

Beaver Creek, Osage trail crosses, 16

Beaver Creeks, in crossing the divide between Big Caney and, 16

Beaver, George, [Osage Chief “Little Beaver,”], 109

Beaver Horse Road, (Cheyenne), 286

Beaver Lake, 330

Beaver, Little, 127

Beavers, About four miles below the junction of the two, the agency is situated, 127

Beaver skin or grass, a wreath of, 160

Beaver Township, 32-33

Beaver Township board, 433

Beaver Township Cemetery Corporation, 433

Beck, Ruth Eleanor Scott, 427

Beebe’s company, Brevet Major, of the Thirty-eighth, 238

Beecher and Forsyth, 234

Beecher, Frederick H., 1st Lieutenant 3rd Infantry, 235, 239

Beecher, Lieutenant, of the Pioneer Scouts, 255

Beede, Cyrus, (U. S. Indian Agent), 82-93, 95-98, 103-104, 111-112, 131, 136, 143

Beede, Mamie, 105

Beede’s residence, Agent, three fully grown centipedes were found under the carpet at, 86

Beedles, Margaret Ann Vanderlip, 427

Beedy, Daniel, 24

Beef, 45-46, 49, 79, 90-91, 105, 134, 138, 147-148, 195, 228, 264, 277, 280, 361, 368, 371, 407

Beef and dog meat, but would be content with extra rations of, 193

Beef, 45-46

Beef cattle, 78, 145, 323

Beef contract, 405

Beef contractor at Reno, 287

Beef on the hoof, His contract is for, 91


Beeves, Have to kill their, with axes, 46

Before the War, 13

Belcher, E. H., 355

Belknap, (Arkansas City freighter), 404

Belknap, Gen. William W., (Secretary of War), 270-273, 312-315

Bell, Aaron, Mr., and his wife were killed, two children carried off, 230

Bell, Colonel James, 153-154

Bennett, Fort, 46, 276

Bennett, John T., 190-191

Bent brothers, 12

Bent, Charles, 12

Bent, George, Chief of the Cheyennes, 289

Bent, Julia, daughter of old Colonel Bent, married Ed. Gearing, a half-breed, 44

Bent, Old Col., married a Cheyenne woman and for years held Bent’s fort on the Arkansas River, at a time when Kansas as a state was not known, 289

Benton, Montana, 178

Benton, Nebraska, 107

Bent, Robert, interpreter for the Cheyennes, 280

Bent’s fort, 44, 295

Bent trading post, 12

Bent, William, 12

Benzine, 64

Berger, Mrs. C., 206, 289-290

Bering land bridge, 421

Bering Strait, 273, 409, 421

Berkey, & Bowen, of the flat-boat expedition, 208

Berkey, Wm. M., 77, 352, 355, 357-358, 362, 364

Berkey, Will., Jr., 352

Bernard, Irwin & Co., of Westport, 303

Berry, Col., the herder, was, fortunately for the Indians, out of ammunition, 324

Berry, King, 148

Berry, and brother, 214-215

Berry, Thomas E., 216, 222

Best, Tommy, the herder, 307

Bethel, almost equal to a Harvest Feast at, 349

Between Dodge City and Camp Supply, five farmers, out hunting buffalo, were killed by Indians, 262

Bevenue, Sam, wants them allowed to vote and hold office instead of painted dandies, 108

Beyheylle, Battee, a full blood Pawnee and interpreter for the tribe, called “Bat,” 216

Big and Little Lewis Pappan, half breed Kaw Indians, 129

Big and Little Osages, Joe is chief ruler of the, 100

Big Bear, [Mun-chee-hun-chee], (Otoe or Missouria Chief), 200

Big Belly, (Northern Cheyenne, I. T.), [Bad Indian], 44


Big Bend of the Arkansas, country on Medicine Lodge Creek and the, 240

Big Bend, one company on the Republican, at the, 237

Big Blue, retaining only a small tract on the, 199

Big Bow of the Kiowas, 48

Big buffalo hunt, Arapahos and Cheyennes have gone out on a, 270

Big Bull, (Ponca), 167

Big Cana bottom around to the Little Cana, we followed the, 125

Big Cana, which is nearly as large as Cottonwood, 125

Big Caney, 16

Big Caney and Beaver Creeks, In crossing the divide between, 16

Big Caney Creek, in Howard County, 15-16

Big Caney fellows, while among, 119

Big Chief, (Che-sho-hun-kah, meaning “Peace Clan”), head chief of the Osages 94, 115

Big Chief, (Ponca), 169

Big Chief’s hall, Half breeds danced in, 108

Big Creek, 52

Big Elk, (Ponca Chief), 142-143

Big Foot, (Sioux Chief), 291, 366-367

Big Foot’s camp on Cheyenne River, 290

Big government or big business, had little trust of, 13

Big Head, (Northern Cheyenne, I. T.), [Bad Indian], 249

Bigheart and Strike Axe, 93

Big Hill Band, (Osage), 108, 118-119

Big Hill Creek downstream from Independence, Kansas, 53

Big Hill Joe, (Pah-ne-no-pa-she), 100

Big Hill Joe’s band, 62

Big Hill Joe’s tribe of Osages, 113

Big Hill Osages, the Ta wan-ge-he’s band of, 106

Big Hills, 79, 108

Big Hills and Little Osage villages, Both the, were on the east side of the Verdigris, 53

Big Hill village, 53

Big Hole, battle of, 177-178

Big Horn country, 341, 375

Big Horn post, in Montana Territory, 178

Big Horse, a “soldier chief,” 401

Big Horse, (Cheyenne Chief), 280, 284

Big Jake’s band, 259

Big Joe and lady, (Kaws), 138

Big Kansas, (Ponca Indian), 155

Big Medicine-man to doctor the wounds of the braves, 306

Big Mouth, (Chief of the Arapahos), 290, 339

Big Nose, (Osage), 120

Big Prisoner, (Northern Cheyenne, I. T.), [Bad Indian], 44


Big Road, 291

Big Sandy Creek, attacked on, 239

Big scalp dance over the scalps of our family, 265

Big Snake (Second chief of Ponca tribe), 157, 168-169, 172

Big Snake, the wife of, was with difficulty persuaded to stay at home, 169

Big Soldier, (Ponca), 169

Big Thorn, (Cheyenne raider), 277-278

Big Tree (Adoltay or Addo Etah), [Kiowa Chief], 7, 303, 305-306, 310-311, 319-320, 322

Big water, 405, 409

Big Wild Horse, a slough, 399

Bill, army appropriation, 275

Bill before Congress, 396, 412

Bill establishing a territorial government in the Indian Territory is virtually killed, 74

Bill extending the time for making proof and payment on the Osage Trust and Diminished reserve lands, 67

Bill for the sale of the Cherokee Strip in Kansas, became a law, 387

Billiard Hall, 25

Billiard hall, Fort Sill, 411

Billiards, Lost 20 cents on, 25

Bill, Indian appropriation, 58, 179, 197, 275, 356

Billings, the petrified forest near, 424

Bill, official copy of the Osage, 58-59

Bill, of great importance to this State, 338

Billows, Col., 37

Bill pending, 100, 170

Bill, providing for, 56, 212, 275, 352

Bill, report a, for the removal of the Osage Indians to the Indian Territory, 57

Bill, The, was referred to the appropriate committee, 338

Bill to abolish the franking privilege, 57

Bill, to establish U. S. courts in Indian Territory, 275

Bill to open the Indian Territory, 354

Bill to supply deficiency for feeding Sioux Indians, 352

Bill, transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department, 86, 89

Bill, Word has just been received from Senator Plumb that his amendment to the general Indian appropriation, appropriating $25,000 for the Indian Industrial School, has become a law, The bill requires the school to be located in the Indian Territory, near the south line of the State of Kansas, convenient to the Ponca and Nez Perce reservations, 192

Birdzell home, 417

Birdzell, J. W., The, cabin was the largest and strongest of the cabins inhabited at that time, 417

Birdzells, The Nipp brothers were some of the nearest neighbors of the, 417

Bisbee, the shoemaker, has started for the Black Hills, 354

Bishop, 216


Bishop, Lieut., 79

Bismarck, 342, 350, 380

Bismarck, Dakota Territory, assays were made of the quartz from the Woolsey lode, 364

Bitter Creek, reached the mouth of, 154

Blackall, Mrs., of Chicago, 100

Black Bear Creek, 207, 414

Black Bear, followed, to the agency, 216

Black Bear has its young, December, Wah-sappy-va-tila, 117

Black Bear’s son-in-law was also killed, 338

Black Bear, they killed a monstrous, 401

Black Beaver, Captain, is chief of the Delawares, 405

Black Beaver, hunting companion of Audubon, the naturalist, who “go round in de wood, and shoot little bird,” 340

Black Beaver, the Delaware, The telegraph announces the death at the Wichita Agency, in the Indian Territory of, 340

Black Beaver was the only thoroughly good Indian we ever saw, 340

Black Coyote, got Beard and Day’s horse of the one eyed Indian and, 49

Black Crow, (Ponca), 169

Black Dog and Wolf towns were only three miles distant, 52

Blackdog band, in Kansas only the, remained loyal to the south, 53

Black Dog, (Osage Chief), 12, 53, 100

Black Dog, the present governor, 119

Black Eagle Flying, (Northern Cheyenne, I. T.), [Bad Indian], 44

Black Hawk War, 400 lives and $5,000,000, 243

Black Hawk War of 1832, The Sac (or Sauk) and Fox Indians were best known for their roll in the, 325

Black Hillers, 352, 354-355

Black Hills, 20, 84, 100-101, 141, 341-357, 359-362, 364-365, 367-369, 371-375, 379-380

Black Hills Daily Times, 379

Black Hills of South Dakota, 141

Black Hills Pioneer, 375

Black Hills, road agents, 380

Black Hills Territory, 372

Black Horse, (Kiowa or Comanche chief), 318

Black Horse, (Northern Cheyenne, I. T.), [Bad Indian], 44

Black Jack, no timber to be had except Cottonwood and, 24

Black, Judge, argued last October by, 85

Black Kettle, (Southern Cheyenne Chief), 236, 242, 245, 255, 297

Black Kettle’s band were peaceable Indians, Sheridan repels the charge of Col. Wynkoop that, 245

Black Kettle’s camp, 242, 297

Black Kettle’s sister, 242-243

Black Kettle’s village, the trail of which led Gen. Custer into, 242


Black Kettle’s young men were out depredating when the village was captured, 245

Blackman, 163-164

Black, Osages paint in, and play “shinny,” 108

Black ponies of the Osages, Tom McGuire purchased a span of, 106

Blackowl, Elizabeth, is the current president, 224

Black Robes, they were familiar with the Jesuits, known by them as the, 51

Blacksmith, (Cheyenne raider), 277-278

Black tongue, Deer die of the, 93

Black walnut, The river timber is, hickory, sycamore, ash, hackberry, and cottonwood, 133

Black with smoke and flying cinders, and the air was, 148

Blackwell, 140

Black White Dog, (Ponca Indian), 155

Black Wolf, (Northern Cheyenne, I. T.), [Bad Indian], 44

Black Wolf and Cut-in-Two, (Northern Cheyenne, I. T.), [Bad Indian], 44

Black wolves kill birds on Bird Creek, 101

Blair, 129

Blair, Anna Mae, Hunt, 433

Blair, John, 399

Blake’s party of Californians, 351

Blanchard, A. S., 349-350

Blanchard, Seth, 348-349, 353, 374, 380

Blanchard, T. A., 346, 349, 353, 363, 375, 380

Blanchard, Tom, 356, 359

Blanchard, Tom and Seth, 369

Blanket, 81, 87, 94, 104, 120, 132, 136, 160, 181, 186, 267, 290, 305, 367, 381

Blanketed Indian, until a young man, of the Comanche tribe, a, 318

Blanketed, Painted and, Indians are no uncommon sight on our streets, 418

Blanket Indians, 99

Blanket Osage, more than half of whom are, 75

Blankets, 15, 25, 42, 46, 77, 90, 101-102, 118-119, 143, 151, 165, 248, 277, 281, 378, 404

Bleachers, 121

Bleaching, 222

Blood, 46, 84, 99-100, 104, 110, 120, 144, 152, 163, 172, 224, 245, 250, 260, 275, 303-304, 306, 309, 337, 340, 370, 385, 397, 414-415

Blooded cow, Some time ago the Frisco killed a, 435

Blooded mare, 377

Blooded race horse, they evidently have been smart enough to procure a, 334

Bloodhound, He owns a full, 415

Bloodhounds, There were few, in Texas, and none for sale, 415

Bloodless, 72

Bloodshed, 104, 364

Blount’s, Gen., “Red legged Scouts,” 376

Blue-blood, 162


Blue or Ballou, a noted Cherokee outlaw and cattle thief, 329

Blue River, 414-415

Bluff Creek, 399

Bluff Creek, Kansas, 299

Bluff Creek, Sumner County, 27

Blunt, Gen., 257

Blunt, Lieutenant Colonel James G., 53

Blurred the brands, clipped their ears, shaved their manes, 285

Board of Missions, 187

Bob Tail, (Chief), 280

Bodoc, 216

Bodoc Creek, 413

Bogardus, A man named, 230

Boggy Springs, three miles from Skeleton Creek is, 400

Bohle, the inspector, says the flour is of superior quality, 279

Bolin, Tom, a Cherokee, 398

Bolton S. P. U., 415

Bolton Township, 129, 163, 192, 273, 435

Bona fide, 64

Bond, Dr., at the same time firing seven shots at, 262

Bone hunters, 276

Bones, 286, 358, 400, 407

Bone whistles, sounded their, and commenced dancing, 144

Bonsall, Judge, 139

Bonsall, L., acting coroner of this place, 219

Bonsall’s Photograph Gallery, 78

Bonsall’s yesterday, Ponca Indians all had their photographs taken at, 142

Boone, A. G., 145-146

Boone, Colonel, 146, 371

Boone, Col., 145

Boone, Col. A. G., 366, 369

Boone, Daniel, 145, 294

Boone, Mr., 275

Boone, Old Col., 299

Booths, Corbin, and Smith, 61

Border, 11, 17, 22-23, 42-44, 51, 65, 69, 73, 79, 84, 87-89, 95-96, 99, 105, 109-111, 116, 129, 137, 147, 183, 187, 212, 219, 229, 232-233, 245, 250, 252, 260, 270, 276, 282, 292, 307, 316, 326, 347, 353, 368, 372, 396, 414, 429, 433-435

Borders, 50, 255, 260, 337

Bordering, 18, 31

Born in the Willows, (Northern Cheyenne, I. T.), [Bad Indian], 44

Borrel, Secretary, 177

Boss pistol, 41


Boston Advertiser, 169

Boston, Mass., 1st Class, $52.45, 2nd Class, $48.25, 34

Boston philanthropist, 171

Boston philanthropists, 169

Boston Ponca commission, 171

Boudinot, Col., the Cherokee, 388, 390

Boundary, 15

Bourke, John G., 169

Bowen & Berkey, of the flat-boat expedition, 208

Bowen, E. D., (Arkansas City freighter), 404

Bower, Mrs., Secretary Belknap later married, 314

Bowers, Miss T., 131

Bowers, Reuben, Purchaser, Cherokee Strip Lands, 394

Bowman, Dr., 220

Bowman, E. H., U. S. Indian Agent, 223

Bowman, Jesse, 303-304

Boy, 51-52, 79, 94, 145, 182, 184, 215, 230, 253, 281, 300-301, 305, 308, 340, 345, 376-377, 401, 410, 412

Boyden, Col., A.A.G. of Butler, 37

Boyd, W. L., is a candidate for the office of governor in the Chickasaw Nation, 88

Boyer, W. M., 1st Lieut., 76

Boyhood, 166, 363

Boy, Koots-koots-hah-ats-wa, is what the Nez Perce Indians have to say for, At that rate it would take them all day to say man, 192

Boyle, O. F., 380

Boys, 13, 37, 42, 47, 62, 64, 71, 73, 77, 84, 88, 95, 105, 117-118, 120, 129, 131-133, 147, 150, 156, 159, 163, 165, 168, 176, 178, 182, 193, 214, 226, 235-236, 243-244, 246, 250, 255-256, 260, 281, 284, 289, 310, 312, 321-322, 355, 357-359, 365, 369-370, 406, 410, 412, 420, 428

Braddock’s defeat in 1755, It is said that a party of Osages were at, 107

Bradley, General, 239-240

Bradley, Gen., 240

Brady, Charles, 303-304

Braman exit, 140

Branded, 49, 221, 271, 286

Brands, 182, 191, 205, 222, 284-285, 329

Brave, willing to brand the, men who are defending our homes and our scalps from the cruel bloodthirsty savages, as thieves and murderers, 73

Brave, 108, 119-120, 161, 136, 239, 254, 265, 282, 299, 300, 315-316, 319, 398, 409

Braved, He was a large, powerful Indian who had successfully, the trials and hardships of many battles in the north, but the malaria of this southern climate proved more destructive than the weapons of his enemies in human form, 194

Bravely, That they fought, 191


Braver, He said he thought then that the, he was and the more he could do to overcome his enemies, the better he was, but now his heart was changed and he wanted to live at peace with all men, 186

Bravery, 74, 186, 375

Braves, 65, 80, 99, 119-120, 136, 158, 160-161, 176, 208, 272, 275, 290, 294, 296, 304-306, 360, 371, 373

Bravest, and passed through scenes calculated to try the, heart, 382

Brazeal, Thomas, 303-304

Brazos River, in Texas, 336

Brazos, captured by the Indians near the falls of the, 312

Break, 48, 99, 127, 233-234, 291, 320-321

Breakage, and there was but little, 246

Breakfast, 16, 25, 34, 88, 132, 221, 260, 403

Breakfasted, and, with us the next morning, 67

Breaking, 18, 31, 129, 132, 151, 164, 172, 214, 248, 300, 339, 413

Breakneck, started off down the hill at, speed, 77

Breaks, 23, 137, 161, 414

Breene, John, cut two of his toes off while cutting wood for Mrs. Kirtley, 270

Bregs, Geo. W., of Geo. W. Cowles & Co., 271

Brenner, of Mississippi, who is the present trader, 118

Brevet Col. Bankhead, 240

Brevet Col. G. A. Forsyth, 238-239

Brevet Col. G. A. Forsyth and Lieut. Frederick H. Beecher, 239

Brevet Col. H. C. Bankhead, Capt. Fifth Infantry, 239

Brevet Col. W. B. Royall, Major Fifth Cavalry, 240

Brevet Lieut. Col. Barnitz was seriously, if not mortally, wounded, 236

Brevet Lieut. Col. Carpenter’s and Capt. Graham’s companies of the Tenth Cavalry, 240

Brevet Lieut. Col. Carpenter’s company, and, then en marche protecting the stage line to Denver, reaching Forsyth on the morning of the 25th of September, 239

Brevet Lieut. Col. T. C. English, Major Fifth Infantry, 237-238

Brevet Lieutenant-colonel, 313

Brevet Major Beebe’s company, 238

Brevet Major Gen. A. J. Smith, Colonel Seventh Cavalry, 237

Brevet Major Gen. C. W. Getty, 237

Brevet Major General C. C. Augur, Commanding Department of the Platte, 239

Brevet Major-general, Colonel and, Nelson A. Miles, U. S. Army, Commanding Expedition, 262

Brevet Major General E. A. Carr, Major Fifth Cavalry, 240

Brevet Major Gen. Grierson, Colonel Tenth Cavalry, 237

Brevet Major Montgomery Bryant, Captain Sixth Infantry, 237

Brevet Major Page’s company, Third Infantry, 238

Brice, Donaly E., 294

Bridge, 26, 139, 149, 204, 355, 361, 436


Bridge, Bering land, people from Asia migrated across the, 421

Bridge, Canon Diablo, 424

Bridge over the North Platte River, between Sidney, Nebraska, and Custer City, 355

Bridger, Jim, among the new hires were, and Jedediah Smith, 12

Bridges, Carlos, our cook, 124

Bridges, crossing rivers and streams without, 27

Bright Eyes, Susette, LaFlesche, 152

Brintzenhoffer, Charles, 208

Brisbin, Commanding, 352

British Parliament, 19

British possessions, 178

Bristol, Colonel, in command at the Fort, 308

Bristol, lectured in, 172

Bristol, Pennsylvania, 172

Brooks, Gen., 291

Broome, Harry, 109-110, 330

Brown, (Arkansas City freighter), 404

Brown, A. J., 270

Brown, Col. A. G., 299

Brown, Dee, 381

Brown, Edith Ruth, 427

Browne, Wm. C., Purchaser, Cherokee Strip Lands, 394

Brown, F., Beaver Township, 32-33

Brown, Harry, a mail carrier, 332

Brown, H. N., city marshal, 221-222

Brown, Hon. W. R., 391-393, 395-396

Browning, Orville H., Secretary of the Interior, 326

Brown, Judge, Congressman, 82, 395

Brown, Maggie, 216

Brown mare with chain hobbles on four feet, 182

Brown, Mr., our worthy Representative of the Legislature, 370

Brown pony, for the recovery of a certain, 204

Brown’s ranch on north fork of Canadian, 47

Brown, West alias Jim West, 47

Brown, W. R., House of Representatives, Washington, D. C., 392

Brown, Wm., Representative, 395-396

Bryant, Montgomery, Brevet Major, Captain Sixth Infantry, 237

Buck and buffalo horns, Some wore on their heads immense, 294

Buckboard, 29, 42, 401

Buck Creek, and “Satasuggy camps,” near the mouth of a stream, apparently, 107

Buckland Mills, 363

Bucks, Around this the young, 90

Buckshot, and shot a load of, into one of them, 79


Buckskin, his summers in patched, on the plains, 376

Buck skins, they brought in a number of wolf skins, furs, etc., 61

Buck skins, who brought in buffalo robes, wolf skins, and other furs, 19

Buckskin shirts, The pious Poncas, in, 144

Bucks, The surviving seven Cheyenne, 23

Buffalo, 21, 23-24, 45, 65, 72, 79, 86, 89, 92-94, 100, 102-105, 108, 137, 213, 236, 242, 261, 276, 339, 344, 386, 409, 432

Buffalo and Whirlwind Creeks join, Where, there is a pond of brine,258

Buffalo Bill, 220, 381, 375-376

Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show, 430

Buffalo Bill’s, each man a regular half-dozen, 347

Buffalo Bill’s Indian troupe, 220

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, 223

Buffalo Chief, (Otoe Indian Chief), 201

Buffalo Creek, about ten miles west of Lake Sibley, 249

Buffaloes, 62

Buffalo Gap, eight miles from, 356, 358

Buffalo Good (Wacos Chief), 337, 405

Buffalo grass prevails over this region, 256

Buffalo ground, 108, 400

Buffalo-hair lariat rope, 155

Buffalo Head, (Ponca Indian), 155

Buffalo hides, 412

Buffalo horse, 87

Buffalo hunt, 46, 111, 208-209, 270

Buffalo hunters, 309, 311, 318

Buffalo meat, 94, 242, 254-255

Buffalo meat without salt, 269

Buffalo pasture, near Salt Plains, 108

Buffalo robes, 19, 95, 264, 272, 404

Buffalo shaking the dust off him, or Two-lak-goh, (Northern Cheyenne, I. T.), [Bad Indian], 44

Buffalo skins, Osages need fresh, to make lodges, 108

Buffalo Springs, 49, 400

Buffalo straight, we subsisted entirely on buffalo meat without salt, or as the boys called it, 244

Buffalo, The clans consist of Eagle, Elk, Deer, Peace, War, etc., 116

Bufield, Monroe County, 255

Bull Bear, (Cheyenne Chief), 401-402

Bull Bear creek, marked tree on, 47

Bull, (Cherokee), 93

Bull Coming Out, (Northern Cheyenne, I. T.), [Bad Indian], 44

Bullet, 25, 40, 172, 324


Bullet range, Some of the squaws were so excited that they had to be held or tied to keep them out of, 288

Bullets, 252, 254, 259, 268, 309, 332

Bullet wound, No, that’s a, and that’s where an arrow struck, 378

Bull Foot’s Springs, 22 miles from Skeleton, 400

Bull Head, (Sioux Indian Police), 382

Bull train, I received word through a Mr. Harris, in charge of a, 330

Bull-trains, and will thence be re-shipped on, 307

Bullwhacker, where Laflin’s men had “stuck,” 399

Bull Whackers, 95

Bull, whom we should have judged to have been a full blood Johnny, 216

Burdett, S. S., 76, 390

Bureau of Indian Affairs Pawnee Agency, 224

Burgess, Miss, 210

Burgess, Mr., Agent of the Pawnee Indians, 212

Burgess, Mr. Charles H., of Columbus, Nebraska, 220

Burgess, W., U. S. Indian Agent, 91, 95, 208, 210-211

Burgess, William, the Pawnee chiefs and their agent, 207

Burgess, Wm., 96

Burgess, W. W., our Nebraska printer, 88

Burke, Mr., leaves a family, 251

Burlingame, Mains can’t get his paper from, 25

Burlington and Topeka Railroad, 325

Burns his own lime, 168

Burns, James, claim No. 11, Deadwood Gulch, above Discovery, owned by, 379

Burns, James W., of Coffeyville, Kansas, 101

Burns, 350

Burrell, Jim, (Arkansas City freighter), 406

Butler, 17, 37, 98, 298

Butler, Ben, 180

Butler, B. F., Wm. Lawrence, 388-389

Butler County, 17, 20, 22, 60-62, 245

Butler, John, of Salem, Ohio, 256, 299

Butler, Messrs. Lawrence &, 388

Byon, Col. A. J., received a letter from, who has the outfit in charge, 370-371

 

C

Cabin Valley, 29, 32

Cache Creek, 248, 250, 310

Cache pits, 335

Cache River, 338

Caddo, 61, 96, 99, 225, 295, 338, 411

Caddo and their allies, 336


Caddo and Wichita by Mr. Edwards, interpreter for the latter tribes, These speeches were translated into Kiowa and Comanche by Mr. Maltby, and from these tongues into, 322

Caddoan language, Wichita Indians were a “confederacy” of several bands, each of which spoke a slightly different dialect of the common, 335

Caddoan linguistic family, Belonging to the, the Pawnee, 207

Caddoan tribes, 336

Caddo boy, he called to a, 305

Caddo, Chickasaw Nation, The post office at, 88

Caddo County, 295, 336

Caddo George, (George Washington), and formerly chief of the Caddos, 410

Caddo, Indian Territory, Indian Odd Fellows will have a public demonstration at, 86

Caddos, 48, 107, 403-404, 409

Caddos, and Wichitas, 405

Caddo Spring, 225

Caddo Springs, 49, 401

Caddo Star, The, 92

Caddo to Fort Sill, Indian Territory, for wagon transportation from, 317

Caddo villages, old, 107

Cadiz, 26

Cadiz community, 425

Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio, 425

Cadiz, Ohio, 25, 363, 425-426

Cahagatonga, (Osages), Principal Chief, White Hair, 106

Cah-he kah wah ti an kah, (Osage), 94

Cairns, D., 318

Cairns, Rev. J., of Winfield, will occupy the pulpit, 189

Calaboose, 41

Caldwell, 28-30, 46-47, 105, 115, 169, 187-188, 276, 282, 287, 307, 331, 339, 399, 401, 411

Caldwell, Capt. Mathew, The man most experienced at fighting Indians was, 294

Caldwell Commercial, 280, 287

Caldwell Journal, 194-195, 221, 319

Caldwell Post, 168, 283

Cale, 434-436

Cale branch, The Frisco is laying a double track from west of the depot across the Arkansas River to connect with the, 436

Cale, Cowley County, Kansas, 433

Cale, Ks., In the memory of several old timers here there was once a station at, 436

California, 12, 75, 225, 342, 423

Californians, Blake’s party of, 351

Calliwell, T., 400

Cambridge, 334, 433, 436


Camp, 41, 44-45, 48, 78-79, 108-109, 116, 118-119, 141, 154, 160, 175-176, 178, 182, 214, 219, 221, 227, 235, 238, 246-248, 250-251, 255, 260, 265-266, 284, 291, 297-298, 300-301, 311, 330, 334-335, 343-344, 346-347, 349, 351-352, 354, 356, 358-360, 364-365, 369-370, 372, 376, 381, 401-403, 405-406, 413, 419-420, 430

Camp Beecher, 235

Campbell, (Arkansas City freighter), 404

Campbell, Old Mr., 353, 355, 360

Campbell press, 138

Campbell, sold, one of the horses for $25, 49

Camp Douthitt, reached, 36

Camped, 16, 21, 26, 36, 43, 48-49, 55, 57, 67, 79, 124, 146, 226, 235, 255-256, 285, 289, 301, 311, 331, 334, 346, 349, 369, 404, 406, 415

Camp fire, 145, 377

Camp fires, 36, 349

Camp followers, 175

Camp ground, on General Custer’s cavalry, 346

Camp-ground, they reached a, which had been abandoned only two days before, 248

Camp ground to the other, as he passed back and forth on his pilgrimages from one, 417

Camp Harney, 347

Camping ground, 65, 116, 198, 330

Camping place, 412

Camp Jenney, on east fork of Beaver Creek, Black Hills, 346

Camp life, 72, 374

Camp, Little Chief’s, we went direct to, which was deemed almost hostile, 44

Camp, Little Osage’s, on Slate Creek, 62

Camp of Bull Bear, lately visited the, 401

Camp of Cheyenne, Colonel Chivington with some Colorado troops attacked a, 309

Camp of his friends, turning his horse, he dashes for the, 254

Camp of Indians, 352

Camp of James Bell and party, 154

Camp of Missouris near the mouth of Grand River, Missouri, 107

Camp of the Cheyennes where the Indians were dancing, 401

Camp of the Comanches, 293

Camp of the friendly Comanche, 309

Camp of the hostiles, and report that a white scout is in the, 178

Camp of the Patrol Guards, 276

Camp of the Indians, The soldiers struck a, 79

Camp on the Chikaskia, died last week at his, 194

Camp on the Cow Skin, 236

Camp on the Washita, 420

Camp, Osages don’t like to kill snakes, and when they find a rattlesnake in, they let it go, 108

Camp Richardson, 316

Camps, 51, 119-120, 145, 182, 229, 259, 277, 291, 297, 365, 403, 407


Camp Supply, 44, 46, 79, 129, 209, 225, 244, 246, 250, 256-258, 261-263, 271, 276-277, 296-297, 307-308, 311, 314-317

Camp Tuttle, 346-347

Camp Wichita, Wichita Mountains, Gen. Grierson writing from, 249

Canada, 102, 124, 158, 178, 381, 418, 421, 425

Canadian, 292, 311, 340, 402, 410, 414

Canadian and Beaver rivers, the whole region, which includes the Wichita, 419

Canadian and the upper Washita, 225

Canadian bottoms, through the, 298

Canadian, Deep Fork of the, at Sac and Fox Agency, 414

Canadian, main, 47, 296-297, 402, 415

Canadian, North, 244, 296, 298

Canadian, North Fork of the, 47, 61, 276, 339, 401, 419

Canadian or Middle River, 238

Canadian River, 12, 225, 242, 257, 296

Canadian River and Wichita Mountains, expedition to the, 240

Canadian River, between the North and South forks of the, 92

Canadian River was called on Pike’s chart Nesonchebrara, 107

Canadian rivers, all of Oklahoma north of the Arkansas and, 51

Canadian, South, 260

Canadian, South Fork of, is called Nesconregasca, 107

Cana, 99, 124-125, 213

Canal office, 188

Cana River, 106, 397

Canaville, Kansas, 110

Canby, Met Mr., 49

Candy & Co., of Illinois, 282

Caney Creek, 136

Caneyville, September 17th, at, 47

Cannibal chiefs from Texas, The, 158

Cannibals during the war of the rebellion, They were, 158

Cannon ball, 424

Cannon, Mr., 273-274

Canon Diablo,424

Canon, 263, 424

Canons, 263

Cantonment, 287

Capron, Manly, 206

Captain, A., 88

Captain, Augustus, is President of the Osage Council, 84

Captain, Augustus, sold a pig the other day for 350 pounds of flour, 93

Captain Black Beaver, (Delaware Chief), 405

Captain C. M. Scott, Special Scout, Indian Territory, 43-50

Captain Jack, (Nez Perce), 48-49


Captain of Fifth Company, Independent Cavalry of Kansas State Militia, C. M. Scott was a newspaper editor and postmaster in Arkansas City, On April 14, 1879, he was commissioned

as a, 427

Captain’s herd of cattle, Hungry Osages raid upon, 93

Captain, under command of General Custer, 363

Captain, When the, putting the plate in his mouth, 418-419

Carden, A. J., of Marion, Illinois, 35

Card de Vista, views of all sizes from, to 11 x 14, 78

Carey, Hobbs, 303-304

Carey, Luella, assistant matron, 105

Carlisle, an “Indian Training School,” 281

Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 169, 280-282, 319, 321, 356

Carlisle school, 282, 290, 319

Carlisle schools, 197

Carpenter, Col., of the 10th cavalry, A dispatch from Ft. Wallace from, 235

Carpentering, blacksmithing, shoemaking, farming, etc., 322

Carpenters, 149, 374

Carpenter’s and Capt. Graham’s companies of the Tenth Cavalry, Brevet Lieut. Col., numbering about 120 men, as an escort, 240

Carpenter’s company, Brevet Lieut., then en marche protecting the stage line to Denver, 239

Carpenter’s right-hand man, Colonel Bell, 153

Carpenter work on the new hotel, 434

Carr, Brevet Major General E. A., Major Fifth Cavalry, 240

Carr, Col., have not heard from, for thirty-six hours, 291

Carr, General Eugene, who organized a force on the Arkansas River, 296

Carr, General, was scouting along the main Canadian, west of Antelope Hills, 297

Carr, Gen., while carrying out these instructions, 240

Carrion flesh, 161

Carr, Lieutenant Colonel, 357

Carr’s victory, Gen., is more complete than first reported, 254-255

Carr, the long-haired Territory man from Ponca, 149

Carson, Colonel “Kit,” 295

Carson, Kit, 13, 309

Carson, Kit, Creek, a small stream now known as, 295

Carter, Jacob V., (U. S. Indian Agent), 333

Carter, Joe, 375, 379

Castello’s Double Circus and Zoological Aggregation, 131

Castle City, Wyoming Territory, 357-358

Castle Creek, 346, 348-349, 357-358

Castle Creek Valley, 346

Catch-the-Bear, (Sioux), 382

Catholic first settlers in Winfield, Cowley County, 55

Catholic institution in Leavenworth, Kansas, 290


Catholics, Most of the Osages that make any pretense of religion are, 113

Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, Friends, and Baptists here, There are, 99

Catholics, who were supervising it had much to show for their sacrifice and efforts, 52

Catholic view of religion, 80

Cattle, 61, 78-79, 92-93, 113, 116, 190, 195, 203-204, 226, 228, 256, 277, 282, 286-287, 294, 300, 303, 321, 428, 435

Cattle and hogs, The White Hair band fenced large fields, built houses, and raised, 52

Cattle and horses, 31, 294

Cattle camp, The boy then stole a pony from them, rode to a, and thus saved his life, 401

Cattle drive is over, 272

Cattle drovers, will keep right on bagging, as they pass up and down the trail, 78

Cattle herds, 27, 287

Cattle kings, introduced themselves as the sons of a couple of, 425

Cattle lawsuit, 76

Cattleman, 128, 415

Cattlemen, 20, 114, 222

Cattle men, 140, 283, 300, 323

Cattle on Bird Creek, Gray wolves howl and kill young, 102

Cattle raising, 272

Cattle thieves, 100, 329

Cavalry, 104, 255, 270, 359-360, 363, 348, 359-360

Cavalry, a company of, was sent in pursuit, 268

Cavalry, a Regiment of, from this State, 234

Cavalry camp at Chilocco, 176

Cavalry company being left with them, 346

Cavalry, eleven companies of, no wagons, 348

Cavalry or volunteers, message asking for more, 364

Cavalry regiments to one hundred men more to each company, increasing the, 364

Cavalry, taking a pack train and fifteen days rations for the, 351

Cavalry, Two companies of, 268, 341, 347

Cavalry, Five companies of, 232-233, 296

Cavalry horses, fifty head of, were shipped over the Santa Fe, 169

Cavalry, I had available for the field at the commencement of hostilities only eleven companies of,—seven of the Seventh and four of the Tenth Cavalry—in all about 800 men, 238

Cavalrymen, The Indians being assaulted from all sides by the enthusiastic, 263

Cavalry, 19th Kansas, 243

Cavalry, Orders were received to call on the Governor of Kansas for one regiment of, 1,200 strong, 240

Cavalry Regiment to fight the Indians, we print the proclamation of Governor Crawford, calling for a new, together with Sheridan’s request for the aid, 233

Cayuga, He is chief of the six nations composed of the Mohawk, Tuscarora, Onondaga, Seneca, and Delaware Indians, 418


Cedar Creek, Near the mouth of, 124

Cedar Point, and the outpost of, 238

Cedar Vale, Caney Creek, eight miles north of, 136

Centennial, 86, 134, 363, 372, 391-392

Centennial Drive, 426

Centipede, Another, in the schoolhouse, 95

Centipedes, 86, 93

Central Avenue, 90, 142-143, 176, 426

Central Avenue Hotel, 90, 153

Central City, 372-373

Central Hotel, 182, 379

Central plains, 123

Central Plains of the United States, 421

Central Superintendency, 125, 256

Central Texas, 293, 295

C. G. Advertiser, 257

Chaffee, Captain A. R., 263

Chalk Bluff Creek, 238, 240

Chamberlain, A. A., 74

Channell & Haywood, 91, 133

Channell, S. P., 128, 146

Chapel, 105, 144, 282, 374

Chapel, Dr., Stacy Matlack and, 220

Chapman, Scout Amos, accompanied the command as guide, 79

Chapman, Capt., Yellow Bull responded through his interpreter, 181

Chapman, ex-interpreter for the Nez Perce, 181

Chapman’s ranch, three men at, were killed and scalped, 274

Chapman’s story, 180

Chapman, their enmity to, has been open and pronounced, 180

Char-ac-ter-ish, Chief, (White Wolf), Pawnee, 1806, 107

Charleston, South Carolina, 426

Charlie, 354-355, 357

Charlie, United States Interpreter, 143

Chartered a palace flat car, 434

Charter for a railway with an endowment double in extent, 11

Charter, The, of the Preston (Texas) and Salina railroad, 23

Chase, 254, 420

Chased, 251, 269, 420

Chase, or any of the counties of Southwestern Kansas, 229

Chastain, J. W., 283

Chaticks-Si-Chaticks, meaning “man to man” on it, 224

Chattanooga, Tennessee, Views of, 78

Chatterson, Gen., 210


Chaui, confederated band of Pawnee, 207

Chautauqua, Col. T. N. King and Maj. Hilliard of, 37

Chautauqua county, at Hickory Station, near the Kansas line, in, 47

Chautauqua County, Kansas, 78, 136

Chaw, a sack with something in it to, 15

Chawed all night, 16

Chelsea, camped near, 26

Cherokee, 92, 154, 157, 326, 338, 367

Cherokee and Osage blood, T. L. Roger, 84

Cherokee authorities at Tah-le-quah, 154

Cherokee Council, 101

Cherokee Delegation, 102

Cherokee families—Cockram, Lookback, Bull, and Skytooke, 93

Cherokee Land Bill, 395

Cherokee land grab kindled the flame, 326

Cherokee lands, 58, 326

Cherokee line, furnishes liquor at horse races on the, 92

Cherokee Nation, 92, 114, 383

Cherokee Neutral Land League, 326

Cherokee Neutral Lands in Southeastern Kansas, 328

Cherokee Neutral Tract and Strip, 325

Cherokee outlaw and cattle thief, 329

Cherokee Outlet, 225

Cherokees, 48, 83, 89, 92, 96, 99, 101, 105, 107, 125. 141, 154, 208, 237, 243, 286, 328, 403, 429

Cherokee Strip, 195, 282, 286, 327, 394, 398

Cherokeetown, eight miles below, 47

Cherokee treaty, The, 328

Cherokee, Western, 51

Cherokee woman, 397

Che-sho-hun-kah, Indian name, “Peace Clan,” Big Chief, (Osage Chief), 115

Chetopa Advance, 386

Chetopah, (Chief Counselor of the Osage Nation), 53, 58, 89, 92, 100, 102-105,

Che-to-pah means four lodges, 103, 116

Chetopah mourning party had left the Agency, 105

Chetopah’s band, 53, 61

Chetopa Herald, 145

Chetopa, Labette County, 146

[Note: Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians shared the same reservation, sometimes called Cheyenne and Arapaho reservation; at other times Arapaho and Cheyenne reservation. The Agency established was called by various names: Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency; Cheyenne Agency; and Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Agency. Some of the Northern Cheyenne came later.]


Cheyenne, 20, 46, 48-49, 61, 163, 218, 225, 228-229, 233, 243, 263, 268, 270, 272, 278, 291, 295-297, 306, 308-309, 322, 331, 341, 343-344, 350, 355, 358, 375, 401-402, 412

Cheyenne Agency, 43-45, 47-48, 92, 140, 145-146, 180, 201, 213, 258, 262-264, 267, 270, 272-274, 276, 278-280, 282-284, 286-287, 290-291, 310, 318, 370, 401, 411-412

Cheyenne Agency, Southern, 258

Cheyenne and Arapaho, 61, 91, 225, 296

Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency, 104, 205, 256, 268, 286, 338

Cheyenne and Arapaho Agencies, 285

Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Agency, 289

Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Camp, 285

Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian children, 280

Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, 11, 49, 225, 232, 278, 282, 292, 296, 365

Cheyenne and Arapaho lands, 292

Cheyenne and Arapaho nation, 292

Cheyenne and Arapaho, Northern, 225

Cheyenne and Arapaho reservation, 205

Cheyenne and Arapaho reservations, 288

Cheyenne and Arapaho, Southern, 225

Cheyenne and Ogden, 198

Cheyenne and Wichita Agencies, 303

Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, and Comanche, from the, 318

Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Wichita agencies, 274

Cheyenne, Arapaho and, Agency, 145

Cheyenne Boarding School, 225

Cheyenne bucks, 275

Cheyenne camp, 283

Cheyenne camp, Sioux and, 364

Cheyenne chief, 75, 275, 291

Cheyenne chiefs, 249

Cheyenne chiefs, Northern, 44

Cheyenne children, 289

Cheyenne, Comanche, and Kiowa Indians, 292

Cheyenne, Comanches, and Wichita Indians, 274

Cheyenne, confederated Comanche, and Kiowa, 309

Cheyenne confederation, 209

Cheyenne Indian, 214, 225

Cheyenne Indian Agency, 258

Cheyenne Indian chief, 272

Cheyenne Indian chiefs, 274

Cheyenne Indians, 20, 139, 236, 245, 258, 263, 273, 280, 364

Cheyenne Indian scouts, 291

Cheyenne Indians, Northern, 284

Cheyenne Indians, Southern, 364


Cheyenne, (Indian War), 1867, 300 lives and about $100,000,000, 243

Cheyenne Leader, 342

Cheyenne lodges, 249

Cheyenne Mission, 282

Cheyenne, Northern, 43-45, 145, 225

Cheyenne, Northern, and Arapaho, 225

Cheyenne post, 270

Cheyenne prisoners, 267, 276

Cheyenne raiders, 277

Cheyenne reservation, Arapaho and, 145

Cheyenne Revolt, 268

Cheyenne River, 91, 290, 343, 350

Cheyenne route, 355

Cheyennes, 44, 46-49, 67, 80, 96, 140, 145, 153, 161, 194, 209, 213-214, 218, 226-230, 236-238, 242, 244, 247-254, 257-262, 264, 268-270, 272-274, 276, 277, 279-281, 283-285, 288-289, 293, 301, 306, 322, 336, 347-348, 354, 365-366, 370, 400-405

Cheyennes’ Agent, Southern, 45

Cheyennes and Arapahos, 44, 48, 91-92, 242-243, 248, 257-258, 272-273, 278, 282-284, 286, 290, 357, 366

Cheyennes and Kaws, 225-226, 228

Cheyennes and Pottawatomies, 285

Cheyennes and the Arapahos, 277

Cheyennes and their allies, the Arapaho, 293

Cheyennes, Arapahos, Kiowas, and Comanches, 238

Cheyennes, chief of the, 289

Cheyenne school, 290

Cheyenne scouts, 291

Cheyennes, Northern, 43-46, 145, 238, 280, 284-285, 288-289, 401

Cheyenne, Southern, 365

Cheyenne, Southern, and Arapaho, 225

Cheyennes, Sioux and, 365

Cheyennes, Southern, 96, 285

Cheyenne tanning, Arapaho and, 272

Cheyenne to the Wichita Agency, 410

Cheyenne Transporter, 193-194, 201, 203, 205, 282-287, 429

Cheyenne tribe, 264

Cheyenne tribes, 229

Cheyenne warrior, 268

Cheyenne warriors, 268

Cheyenne, Wichita, and Kiowa Indian Agencies, 302

Cheyenne, W. T., 341, 351-352

Cheyenne, Wyoming, 348


Chicago, 62, 100, 177-178, 182, 244, 249, 253, 274, 291-292, 346, 352, 354, 360, 364, 382, 397

Chicago, Ill., 1st Class, $30.45, 2nd Class, $26.45, 34

Chicago Inter-Ocean, 85, 345

Chicago Republican’s correspondent in the Indian Territory, 299

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, Everyone should remember that there is only one railroad that runs into these lands, and that is the, 292

Chicago Tribune, from the, 361

Chickasaw, 338, 386

Chickasaw Nation, 88, 91, 296

Chickasaw Plum, 22

Chickasaws, 48, 96, 101, 107, 237, 403

Chief himself, The, Ona-po-ran-ga Go-ha-gat che, (Osage Chief), 107

Chief Joseph, 154, 167, 175, 177-179, 180-183, 185, 190, 193, 197-198, 283-384

Chief Joseph and his band, 154, 196-197

Chief Joseph, Jr., accompanied by about forty Nez Perce, 194

Chief Joseph’s band, 179, 195-197

Chief Joseph’s tribe of Nez Perce Indians, 181

Chief Joseph’s war, known as, 191

Chief of the Kaw tribe, Bill Johnson, 25

Chief of the Nokoni, Red Food, 309

Chiefs, 44, 53-56, 61, 76, 81-82, 88-89, 100, 107, 136, 143, 145, 152, 158, 165-166, 169-170, 172, 181, 194, 199, 201, 207, 224, 229, 239, 242, 247, 249, 257, 259, 264, 267, 272, 274, 280, 283, 290, 293-296, 299, 301-301, 304-306, 309-310, 318-323, 326, 336-337, 345, 341-342, 348, 367, 371, 381, 402, 406-407, 418

Chiefs, Char-ac-ter-ish—White Wolf, and Is-ta kap be—Rich Man, 107

Chiefs Joseph and Yellow Bull, 191, 194-195

Chief timber, 18

Chikaskia, 23, 154, 179, 194

Chikaskia River, 143, 177

Child, 28, 45, 92, 101, 119, 123, 128, 170, 176, 186, 189, 206, 214-216, 253, 264-265, 279, 288, 294

Child Chief, (Ponca), 167, 169

Childers, brands and marks answer the description of some cattle stolen from, in February last, by Charlie Willetts and Long John, 329

Childhood, 87, 319, 363

Childhood’s hour, ’twas ever thus in, 364

Children, 12, 32-33, 35, 45-46, 52, 54-56, 65, 84, 86, 95-96, 99, 101, 103-106, 114, 120, 128, 131-132, 139, 169, 184-185, 196-198, 205, 208, 211, 214, 230-234, 251-252, 258, 262, 268, 275, 293, 296, 300-302, 309, 312, 320-323, 329, 364, 366, 368, 374, 403, 406-407, 409, 412, 417, 425

Children’s heads, Mothers picking and eating the insects from their, 407

Children’s hearts, It makes our, go back and forth, 366

Children’s home, It is intended for the Indian, 128


Chile, Excavations at places like Monte Verde, 421

Chilocco and Carlisle schools, 197

Chilocco Creek, 216

Chilocco, 18 in the school at, 176

Chilocco post office, 435

Chilocco, cavalry camp at, 176

Chilocco school, 198

Chilocco, The Indian industrial school, 320-323

Chilocco, The site selected is on the banks of the, 192

Chilocky Creek, (Chilocco Creek), 57

Chimborazo, and the belching craters of Aetna and, 424

Chinese laundry, A, has been established in the Black Hills, 351

Chippewas, 48, 325

Chisholm, 399

Chisholm trail, 287

Chivington, Colonel, 309

Chivington massacre, 279

Choctaw Council is in session, 94

Choctaw language, “Oc la no-wa” is a traveler in the, 105

Choctaw Nation, 92

Choctaw railroad, also via Oklahoma and the new, for El Reno, 292

Choctaws, 48, 91, 96, 99, 101, 105, 107, 237, 393

Choctaw village is located opposite Arkansas Post, 107

Choctaw woman, A, a full blood, is President of a missionary society, 99

Choctaw words pana (braid or twist) and mahana (to curve or to end up), 207

Chowee, [Chaui], band, The, of the Pawnees, 221

Christian Indians, 166, 199, 286

Christian, James, of Arkansas City, a law partner of the noted Jim Lane of Kansas, was an attorney living in Lawrence in 1869, It was he who defended Keokuk, 14

Christian, Jimmy, 14

Christian, Judge, 428

Christy, Ab., (Arkansas City freighter), 406

Christy, Geo., (Arkansas City freighter), 406

Chuckaway, something to eat, 407

Chuck, 407, 412

Chus-Cun-mot-moc, which appears to be Yellow Bull’s signature, 430

Cibola, 335

Cihegahche, (Kaw), student, 126

Cimarron, 44, 47, 49, 62, 103, 238, 288, 332, 339, 401, 412, 414

Cimarron and Arkansas Rivers, between the, 208

Cimarron is called Nesewketonga, 107

Cimarron River (Red Fork of the Arkansas), 225, 244, 259, 295, 330, 400, 414

Circle, 101, 119, 136, 144, 160, 378, 401, 423


Circles, 156, 315, 422

Citizen, 74, 173, 193, 228, 235-236, 316, 333, 356

Citizens, 17, 30, 36, 40, 54-55, 62, 68-70, 72, 77-78, 101, 103, 105, 112, 115, 121, 131, 135, 140-141, 143, 149, 155, 159, 161-162, 172, 178, 196, 210, 213, 215, 226-227, 231-233, 240-241, 251-252, 260-262, 275-276, 280, 285, 288, 293-294, 299, 304, 309-310, 312, 317, 319-310, 334, 344, 384-385, 388, 398, 436

Citizens’ clothes, 25, 96, 106, 185, 211

Citizens’ clothing, 165, 194

Citizen scouts, 232

Citizen’s dress, 96-97, 190

Citizens’ dress, 130

Citizenship, 86, 196, 323

Citra, (Chief Quanah Parker), 13, 312

City Service Gas Co., 436

Civil agents, 241

Civil courts, 392

Civil custom of law, 88

Civilians, 53

Civility and respect, 87

Civilization, 42, 56, 76, 81, 85-86, 95, 97, 103-104, 130, 150, 155, 157, 159, 161, 164, 172, 183, 188, 1945-195, 199, 202, 211, 233, 236, 281, 315, 318, 321, 337-338, 342, 361, 368, 384, 404, 407, 411, 418

Civilization Act, The, of 1820, 51

Civilization and bad whiskey, 133, 329

Civilize, 324

Civilized, 75, 81, 145, 275, 281, 323, 361, 368, 404, 418

Civilized and Christianized society, 256

Civilized beings, 249

Civilized clothing, 414

Civilized habits, 256

Civilized human being, 354

Civilized Indians, 367

Civilized life, 52

Civilized pursuits, 96

Civilized tribes, 99, 385

Civilizing, and all the, influences of education and religion, 361-362

Civilizing influence, 181

Civilizing purposes, 84

Civilizing the Indians, 253

Civilizing, The work of, 374

Civil law, 101

Civil life, 244, 315

Civil rights leader, Standing Bear was the first Native American, 152


Civil service, and the Government, with the Indians’ pockets the profits, 258

Civil War, 11, 13, 20, 39, 52, 326, 336, 360, 383

Civil War veteran, 20, 421

Civil War, War of the Rebellion—now known as the, 13

Claim, 16-17, 24, 26, 63, 66, 69, 71, 75, 80-81, 85, 126, 130, 142-143, 145, 154, 195, 214, 271, 292, 327, 350, 357, 362-363, 365, 367, 372, 379, 393, 398, 409, 423

Claimant, 66

Claimants, 64, 76, 81

Claim disputes, 22

Claimed, 87-88, 100, 104, 114, 134, 139, 162, 214-215, 274, 285, 304, 308-309, 334, 355, 387, 403

Claiming, 96, 154, 181, 246, 328

Claims, 16-17, 23-24, 28, 35, 60, 63-64, 66, 75, 81, 98, 129, 131, 171, 214-216, 233, 326, 347, 350, 369, 373, 380, 386-388, 394-395, 404, 409

Claim trial, 22

Clammoretown was then where now is the town of Coffeyville, 52

Clan, 62

Clans, 87, 116-117

Claremore Big Hills were on Big Hill Creek, 53

Clark, Ben, 331

Clark, Capt., of Company F, 175

Clark, J., (Arkansas City freighter), 406

Clarke and his principal supporters, 327

Clarke, Hon. Sidney, 24

Clarke, Mr., (interpreter and guide), 179

Clarke, Mr., was specially active in perpetrating this little swindle, 328

Clarke opposed the Osage treaty, two years ago, 327

Clarke, Representative, 56

Clarke, Sidney, of Kansas, 326

Clarke’s Congressional career, During, 327

Clarke’s valuable experience, 329

Clarke, We use our pen for the overthrow of Mr., 329

Clark, Lewis and, explored the new lands 1804-1806, 12

Clark’s ford, Gen. Sturgis in pursuing the Nez Perce down, 177

Clark’s train, Gen. Sheridan says the mules belonging to, 243

Clark, Will, 375

Clay County, 300

Clear Creek canon, the beauties of, 424

Clear Dale, living between, and South Haven, 190

Cleveland, Charley, 49

Cleveland, Joanna, and younger sister, were brutally killed by the Indians, 269

Cleveland, Stephen Grover, a Democrat, was elected as President, 14

Cleveland, the agent’s clerk, 270


Cliff dwellers, 423-424

Clymer Committee, Gen. Custer, in his testimony before the, 271

Clymer, Mr., of Pennsylvania, 313

Coates, Kersey, 326

Coaches, 34-35

Coal, 23, 32, 212-213

Cobb, 237, 242

Coburn, Capt. W. S., at the mouth of Grouse Creek, 70

Cock, Andrew, 75

Cockram, (Cherokee), 93

Cody, William F., [Bill, “Buffalo Bill,” Hon. William, “Little Billy,” Will], 12-13, 220, 375-377

Cody’s Wild West Show, 430

Coffey, 412

Coffeyville, 34, 52, 78, 210, 212, 387

Coffeyville cattle trail, 414

Coffeyville Courier, 76

Coffeyville, Kansas, 92, 101

Coker, The murderer of Johney cake, a respected Delaware Indian, 92

Colbert’s station, October 31st, at, on Red river, on the track of white outlaws, 47

Cold-blooded murder, 73

Cole, 251

Colfax, Schuyler, 232

Collins, Charles, Times office, 344

Colonel S. F. Tappan, 278-279

Colorado, 15, 123, 237-238, 240, 262, 265, 269, 272, 289-290, 299, 306, 308, 344, 355, 361-362

Colorado, Grand Canon of the, 423-424

Colorado River, 421

Colorado Territory, 239

Colorado troops, 309

Colt, Col., summary justice will be meted out to such that come this way, by, 329

Colt Company, “boss pistol,” given to Cyrus M. Scott by the, 41

Colts pistol, shooting four shots from a, without effect, 188

Colt’s revolvers, 251, 378

Columbus and Governor’s Island, 35

Columbus Journal, 388

Columbus, Kansas, 388-389

Columbus, Nebraska, 220

Columbus, Ohio, 426

Colville reservation, Washington Territory, 197


[Note: A temporary reservation was established in 1869 for the Kiowa-Apache, Comanche, and Kiowa Indians near Camp Supply. A permanent reservation was established by U. S. Indian Agent, Brinton Darlington, in 1870, on the north side of the Canadian River, about two miles northwest of present El Reno, Canadian County, Oklahoma; the reservation, near Fort Sill, became known as the Kiowa-Apache-Comanche Reservation; later it was known either as the Kiowa-Comanche reservation or the Comanche and Kiowa reservation]

Comanche, 20, 61, 158, 163, 229, 233, 293, 294-297, 301, 303, 308-309, 318, 322, 338, 407, 409, 431

Comanche, a band of Nokoni, 309

Comanche Agency, Kiowa and, 257, 298, 317-318, 401, 405, 411

Comanche agent, Kiowa-, 298, 306

Comanche and Kiowa, 229, 296, 298

Comanche and Kiowa Indians, 12, 257, 298

Comanche and Kiowa reservations, 311

Comanche band, Quahadi, 13

Comanche bands, 295

Comanche, Cheyenne, and Kiowa, the confederated, 309

Comanche chief, 408

Comanche chief, Quanah Parker, 309

Comanche chiefs, 293, 295

Comanche chiefs, Kiowa and, 318

Comanche, Citra, a Qua-ha-de, 312

Comanche dialect, 305-306

Comanchee ponies, 312

Comanche Indians, 12, 225, 279, 298, 405

Comanche Indians, Kiowa and, 11, 256, 296, 310, 323

Comanche Indians, Yellow Moon, head chief, 319

Comanche, Kiowa and, 91, 295, 297, 303, 309, 322

Comanche, Kiowa and, chiefs, 318

Comanche, Kiowa, and Wichita agency, 256

Comanche medicine man, 309

Comanche of the Staked Plains, Quahadi, or, 306

Comanche, Penateka, 336

Comanche, Quahadi, 309

Comanche, Quahadi renegade Indians known as Mauwa’s band, 317

Comanche Raid, Great, in 1840, 293-294

Comanche reservation, the Kiowa-, 304, 307, 309

Comanche Reservation, Kiowa &, 311

Comanche Reservation, the Kiowa-Apache, 225

Comanches, 12, 48, 96, 101, 107, 158, 194, 205, 209, 215, 229, 231, 237-240, 242, 248, 274, 281, 284, 288, 293-295, 299, 306, 309, 311, 316, 322, 336, 338-339, 403-407, 409

Comanche scouts, 293

Comanches’ idea, The, is that they were born in a cave, 409

Comanches, or Tetans, 107


Comanche, These speeches were translated into Kiowa and, 322

Comanche tribe, 318

Comanche tribes, 338

Comanche village, 244, 295

Comanche war party, 293

Comanche warrior, 294

Coming out in the Morning, (Northern Cheyenne, I. T.), [Bad Indian], 44

Command, 26, 37, 79, 153, 158, 168, 172, 177, 196, 219, 235-241, 244, 248-249, 251, 255, 261, 263, 265, 271, 290, 294, 296, 308, 310-311, 317, 320, 338, 346-347, 351, 357-360, 363, 365, 372, 376, 378, 382, 413, 419-420

Commandant, Col. Henry W. Karnes, 293

Commanded, 87, 219, 237-238, 251, 296, 321, 348, 259, 425

Commander, 36, 153, 241, 244, 250, 279, 284, 301

Commanders, 237, 254, 313

Commandery, 80

Commander-in-Chief, John P. St. John, Governor and, State of Kansas, 43

Commanding,

Commands, 126-127, 303, 311, 377

Commanding, 71, 229, 232, 234, 239, 267, 272, 277, 280, 296, 299-300, 309, 352, 381

Commanding Expedition, Nelson A. Miles, Colonel and Brevet Major-general, U. S. Army, 262

Commanding General Agent Tatum, 302

Commanding, Major General Sheridan, the Department of the Missouri, 236

Commanding Military Division of the Missouri, Lieut. Gen. W. T. Sherman, 237

Commanding post, R. A. Mackenzie, Colonel Fourth Cavalry, 312

Commanding the cavalry at the arsenal here, 360

Commanding this post, Major Gordon, of the Fifth Cavalry, 79

Commanding, Lieut. Gen. W. T. Sherman, Military Division of the Missouri, 234

Commanding U. S. Troops, Eugene Cushman, 2d Lieut. Sixteenth Infantry, 219

Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 73, 81, 91, 103, 130, 212, 217, 249, 254, 258, 287, 289, 332-333, 381

Commissioners of Indian Affairs, 199

Commissioner of the General Land Office, Hon. Jos. S. Wilson, 60

Commissioner of the General Land Office, 63, 75, 389-390, 394,

Committee appointed to investigate affairs at Ponca Agency, 169

Committee, Boston Ponca, it would seem that the, made two reports, 171

Committee of Indian Affairs, 130

Committee of the whole, the House went into, 275

Committee on appropriations, 352

Committee on expenditures in the War Department, 271, 315

Committee on Indian Affairs, 56, 351-352, 356

Committee on Indian Lands, 395

Committee on territories, 275


Committee on the Indian appropriation bill, 275

Committee, Senate, two of the Boston Ponca commission were before, 171

Committee, Senate Ponca, 170

Committee, the Indian bureau is now preparing to send out a special, 177

Committee, The Indian Bureau will soon send a special, 94

Committee, The House, on Appropriations, 58

Committee, The House, on Indian Affairs, 56

Commonwealth, a.k.a. Topeka Commonwealth, 14, 41, 57, 72, 98, 152, 209, 250-251, 261-262, 271, 282, 286, 288, 329, 369, 428

Commonwealth, our rapidly growing, 17

Compilation from the official record regarding Indian wars for the past forty years, 243

Conaway, 163-164

Conaway boys, one of the, 163

Concannon’s Indian photographs, Mr. T. M.,100

Concannon, T. M., Address, Osage Agency, Indian Territory, 101-102

Concannon, Tom, formerly of Winfield, is down at Pawhuska, 93

Concordia is going to organize a company of militia, 353

Concordia, Mother, and her assistants, Sisters Mary Petronilla, Bridget, and Vincentia, arrived at the mission October 10, 1847, 52

Condee has two B ponies—B on right hip, 49

Condee ponies, 49

Confederate cause in southeastern Kansas without a leader, 53

Confederate government, 53

Confederate officers, 53-54

Confederation of the civilized tribes, 385-386

Confederated Peoria (Kaskaskias, Weas, Peorias, and Piankashaws), 199

Conference committee, The report of the, on the Indian appropriation bill, 275

Conflict, 14, 78, 228, 326, 405

Conflicting, 17, 397

Conflicts, 110, 209

Congress, 6-7, 23, 57-58, 64, 66-67, 71, 74-75, 83-85, 89-90, 92, 100, 120-121, 123, 130, 141, 170, 195-196, 202, 207-208, 210, 212, 216, 258, 276, 279, 290, 313, 321, 327-329, 341, 345, 350-351, 364, 372, 384-385, 388-392, 394-397, 412

Congressional burying ground, 94

Congressional delegation, 55, 57

Congressional directive, 325

Congressional enactment, 199

Congressional Investigating Committee, 315

Conklin, 116

Connecticut, 220, 388

Connell, for $1 drawers, $1.25 undershirt, 49

Connell’s stable, Put my mare (Hattie) in, and tied up the dogs, 49

Connell, T., 282-283


Conner, Bill, [Also known as William or Wm.], (Ah-hun-ke-mi, Osage), 19, 67, 73, 75, 84, 102, 106, 217-218

Conservative, [Leavenworth Conservative or Leavenworth Times & Conservative.], 232, 236, 247-248, 251-252

Con.’s Gallery, Go to, for pictures of the Kaws, 127

Conshalta Shute, Conshalta village on the Red River near, 107

Cook, 47

Cook, Captain George, of the Third Cavalry, 352

Cook, Colonel, 360

Cook, Dr., 91-92

Cooke, Jay, and Son, bankers of the Northern Pacific road, 431

Cook, E., Killed by Indians, July 3, 1874, 400

Cook, Gen., Agent of the Spotted Tail Indians, 381

Cook, Henry W., senior member of an extensive law firm, 76

Cooking, 207

Cook lots of grub for them, When these men go to see you, 46

Cook, our, Carlos Bridges, 124

Cook, Perry, 300-301

Cook, She came home to, and keep house for her folks, 427

Cooks were a little perfunctory, 420

Cook the meat, 378

Cook, The teacher and, with two sons of the doctor, 137

Coons, Port, 208

Corcoran, Andy, 348

Cord, 46, 213

Cords, 113, 282-283

Cord wood, 32, 135, 211

Cornwall, 388

Coronado marched out of Mexico in search of Cibola, 335

Corpus Christi, 295

Corry, T. C., 68

Cottingham, Jack, 357

Cottingham, Lit., 357

Cottonwood and Black Jack, No timber is to be had except, 24

Cottonwood, 17-18, 25-26, 125, 133, 237, 256, 399

Cottonwood Falls, We went “post haste” to, 227

Council, 46, 54, 61, 69, 71, 82, 84, 94, 100-101, 104, 116, 121, 136, 138-139, 142, 215, 217, 223, 257, 280, 291, 293, 295-296, 299, 301-302, 309, 337, 347, 366, 381, 385-386, 388, 396, 409

Council Bluffs, were taken through, en route for Fort Leavenworth, 275

Counciled Joseph on the 21st about it, 48

Council Fire, 332

Council Grove, 124, 226-229, 237


Council Grove Democrat, 127

Council Grove, Kansas, 123, 229, 296

Council Hill, a view of the dusky counselors as they sit on the brow of, 101

Council House, 136, 140, 293

Council members, 224

Council, Nasharo, 224

Council of Indians, It was his object to visit the Grand, 136

Council of the administration, 119

Councillors, Osage chiefs and, also signed a treaty, 53

Council room, (Kaw Agency), 132

Council room, (Ponca Agency), 147

Council Room, Osage Agency, 88

Councils, 46, 115, 277

Counseled, He, aid and encouragement, 68

Counsel, 125, 290, 381

Counseling together and making preparations, 230

Counselor, Chief, of the Osage Nation, Chetopah, 89, 103-104

Counselors, 88, 101, 396

Counsels, 268, 332

Courier job office, 191

Courthouse, 68-69, 76, 277, 323, 425

Courthouse yard, Indians not involved in the peace talks remained outside in the, 293

Covington, Mr., 221, 279

Cow Island, Nez Perce attacked the rifle pits at, 178

Cowles & Co., Geo. W., 271

Cowley County boys, He reports the, mostly doing well, 365

Cowley County Courant, 174, 192, 203, 382, 398

Cowley County Democrat, 353

Cowley County Division, Kansas Militia, 363-364

Cowley County Fair, 20, 181

Cowley County, Kansas, 11, 15, 17-22, 24, 27-28, 30-33, 36-37, 39, 51, 55-57, 98, 101, 114, 130, 216, 308, 310, 334-335, 356, 365, 371, 374-375, 379, 390, 394, 433

Cowley County Militia, 76

Cowley County’s border, 368

Cowley County Veterans, 36

Cowley Sketches, 417

Cow Skin, It is dated camp on the, Nov. 14th, 235-236

Cox, Jacob, Secretary of the Interior, rejected by, 327

Cox, J. D., Sec’y, Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C., 60

Cox, Secretary, 341

Coyville, 124-125

Crackers, 38, 407

Craig, James, 326


Crane, 83, 294

Crapster, Bert, 375

Cravens, Indian Agent, 92

Crawford, 230

Crawford, Col., The Nineteenth Regiment under command of, 235

Crawford, Col. S. J., 244

Crawford, Governor, 230-232, 327

Crawford, Gov., 236

Crawford, Samuel J., Governor, has resigned his Governorship, 235

Crawford, Samuel J., Governor of the State of Kansas, 234

Crawford, S. J., Governor, 231-232

Crawford, S. J. Governor of Kansas, 231-234

Crawford’s regiment, Col., 236

Crazy Horse, 354, 356

all, Rain-in-the Face, and, 360

Crazy Horse’s fight, below the point of, 356

Creek, 338

Creek country, 337

Creek Indian children, 700, are now in school, 84

Creek Indians, the bodies of three, were lying close to the roadside, 415

Creek Indian, To-ho lah, owned fifty slaves at the beginning of the war in the States, 84

Creek name for wolf, Yah-hah is the, 84

Creek Nation, 49, 84, 102-103, 288, 331, 368, 371, 415

Creek Nations, The law making powers of the, consists of two Houses, one of Kings and one of Warriors, 102

Creeks, 48, 84, 96, 107, 243, 391, 403

Creeks, The Journal by the, at Okmulgee, 99

Cregor, Jake, from Sumner County, 357

Creswell, 23-24, 56-58

Creswell, known at first as Delphi, and then, This became Arkansas City, 23

Creswell Town Company, 24

Crittenden, Lieut., was among the killed, 359

Crocker’s claim, Phillip, 16

Crook, General George, 46, 151-153, 348, 351-352, 354, 357-359, 363-364, 369, 372, 376-377

Crook, Gen. George, 169

Crook, Gens., and Miles, 170

Crosby, Col., one of Sheridan’s staff, 248

Crosby, Mrs. Cyrus, 294

Crosswell, Mr. Charles, son of ex-Governor Crosswell of Michigan, 168

Crowell & Co., of Coffeyville, 210-211

Crow Dog, (Sioux Indian), shot Spotted Tail through the left breast, 381

Crow Lance, Indian name, Hide seek, (Prominent Chief), 406


Crows, They have frequently attacked the, Shoshones, and other friendly tribes, 362

Crowther, Geo. W., of the Irving Recorder, 250

Culbert’s ferry on Red River, four miles from Denison, Texas, 414

Cullumber, Cleo, 436

Curly, The house you are building for, is not good, Should build like those at the post, 46

Curns, J. W., letters to, from J. J. Williams, 343-344

Curry, 129

Curry, Pat, and Harrington, 355

Curtis, Norman, 15

Curtis, W. W., Assistant Commissioner, 66

Cushman, Eugene, 2d Lieut, Sixteenth Infantry, Commanding U. S. Troops, 219

Cushman, Lieut., 180, 219

Custer, 350-351, 356

Custer and Dead Wood, at Rose Bud, between, 356

Custer City, 348-352, 355-257

Custer City, Omaha, Neb., 356

Custer, Col. Tom, George Custer’s brash young brother, 360

Custer County, Dakota Territory, 380

Custer, Gen., Hard Rope, one of the distinguished Osages says that, did not know how to fight Indians, 91

Custer, George Armstrong, 129, 236, 240, 242, 244, 247-250, 255, 271, 297, 317, 341-343, 359-364, 382, 420

Custer Massacre, participation in the, 20

Custer’s cavalry camp ground, 346-347

Custer’s command, 240, 360, 363, 420

Custer’s fight with Sitting Bull, gave to Agent Miles the following account of, 364-365

Custer’s Gulch, 346

Custer’s last battle, 365

Custer’s Peak, 346

Custer’s trail, 235, 346

Custer’s train, 243

Cutler’s drug store, Dr., 334

 

D

Dacotah, 144

Dacotah Territory, 342, 354

Daily Calamity Howler, 292

Dakota, 44, 142-143, 155, 157, 170-172, 289, 341, 349, 352, 361

Dakotas, 374-375

Dakota Territory, 142-144, 362, 364, 374, 380

Dalton, J. L., The, restaurant burned up, and other buildings were damaged, 25

Dangerous Eagle, (Kiowa), 322, 408

Daniels, Dr. J. W., 92, 369-371


Danish, A, man and wife were murdered on Spillman Creek, 252

Danver’s station, near, on the Smoky Hill Route, 290

Darling, Captain, is now at Washington, 259

Darling, My, 111

Darlings, and the, generally do as requested, 111

Darling’s surveying parties, Captain, 259

Darlington, 225, 286, 310, 401

Darlington, Brinton, a Quaker, 225, 257

Darlington, Cheyenne & Arapaho Agency, Indian Territory, 287, 338

Darlington P. O., Indian Territory, 274

Davidson, Colonel, commanding at Fort Sill, went out to receive their surrender, 309

Davidson, General, 311

Davidson, Gen., where, had the conflict with the Comanches and Kiowas in 1874, 405

Davidson’s guides, one of Gen., 309

Davis, A. A., Arkansas City freighter, 105, 404

Davis, Ed, 68

Davis, Governor, 306, 310, 320

Davis, Major, Met, of the Fourth Cavalry, 47

Davis, Mr. Justice, delivered the opinion, 84

Davis’s sulky plow, A. A., Some Indian squaws fancied, 418

Dawson, Nicholas, where they killed and scalped, 300

Day, R. A., 304

Dead Letter Office at Washington, often sent to the, 28

Dead line, 187-188

Dead White Log, (Cheyenne), 250

Deadwood City, 372, 375

Deadwood Creek, 352

Dead Wood Gulch, 348-349, 356-357, 379

Dead Wood (Black Hills) Reporter, 361

Deadwood Pioneer, 363

Dean boys, the, furnish the beef, and Schiffbauer Bros., the groceries, 147

Dean, Chapman and, 180

Dean’s cattle ranch, 216

Dean’s ponies, 180

Dean’s ranch, 146-147, 179, 413

De Bois’ surveying party, 310

Decamped, 324

Decatur, Wire County, Texas, 300

Deep Fork of the Canadian at Sac and Fox Agency, 414

Deer, 116, 276

Deersville, Ohio, 425

Deity, To make medicine with them is to worship or call on, for assistance, 408

Delano, Secretary, made a short speech, 337


De Larue House, Inspector E. C. Kemble, of the U. S. Indian Service, James Lawrence, U. S. Agent for the Poncas, White Eagle, Standing Buffalo, Big Elk, The Chief, Standing Bear, Smoke Maker, White Swan, Lone Chief, Hard Walker, and Little Picker, head chiefs of the Poncas, and United States Interpreter Charlie, are now stopping at the residence of Agent Beede and at the, 143

Delarue, N. P., the doctor called in, and R. W. Hopkins as assistants, 94

Delaware, A. C. Williams became U. S. Indian Agent in 1876 at Wichita Agency, Williams was in charge of 1,220 Indians—members of Wichita, Waco, Tawakoni, Caddo, and Comanche tribes, the Wichita Agency school had students from thirteen different tribes: Wichita, Caddo, Ute, Comanche, Creek, Kechi, Tawakoni, Delaware, Waco, Cherokee, Seminole, Shawnee, Chickasaw, 338

Delaware Baptist church, A tornado nearly 60 feet wide passed through the Delaware country on the night of the 5th inst., and blew to pieces the, The loss of this new and well finished structure will be keenly felt by our Delaware neighbors, 84

Delaware and Shawnee, and some, 336

Delaware Indian, Coker, the murderer of Johney cake, a respected, was shot and severely, if not mortally, wounded while in a saloon in Coffeyville, Kansas, on the evening of the 3rd inst., The town on this occasion was full of Delawares, some of whom have long sought this white outlaw, and, though the shot was fired by a party in the rear of the building, and in the night time too, it is supposed to have been the work of an Indian who had sought this opportunity to avenge the death of his friend, 92

Delaware Indians are holding their fall feast, 95

Delaware Indians, He is chief of the six nations composed of the Mohawk, Cayuga, Tuscarora, Onondaga, Seneca, and, 418

Delaware, Pawnee, and Omaha Indians, between the, on one side, and the Cheyennes, Comanches, Arapahos, and Apaches on the other, 20

Delawares and Cherokees, We saw some, while here, and a part of them appear to be doing quite well, and others poorly, 125

Delawares, Captain Black Beaver is chief of the, During the war he figured in a number of important matters, 405

Delawares, [1806], This tribe was located on White River, Arkansas, near where Forsythe now stands, 106

Delawares, In his school thirteen different tribes are represented, as follows, Wichita, Caddos, Utes, Comanches, Creeks, Kechis, To-wak-o-nies, Wacos, Cherokees, Seminoles, Shawnees, and Chickasaws, All learn fast, considering their circumstances and prejudices, 403

Delawares, Osages don’t want Cherokees or, to steal timber from their reservation, Whites do enough of it, 105

Delawares, Parties from the Agency, together with the brother of the missing Osage, have visited the scene of blood, but were unable to induce the, to give any information leading to a solution of their case, 397

Delawares, The Sac and Foxes, Kickapoos, Cherokees, and Potawatomi Indians, besides some minor tribes, Let us examine the provisions of these treaties in their order, 327


Delawares, 200, 48

Delawares, while the, and Confederated Peoria (Kaskaskias, Weas, Peorias, and Piankashaws) had 557,955 and 207,758 acres respectively, 199


Delawares, Wichita Agency is in township 7, range 10, six miles north of the 35th parallel, and 16 miles west of the 98th meridian, on the Washita River, 69 miles west of Arkansas City and 132 miles south, A. C. Williams, formerly Agent of the Kickapoos and a resident of this place, is the Agent, and has under his charge seven distinct tribes, as follows, Caddos, Wichita, Comanches, Towakonies, Kechis, Wacos, and, 404

Delaware, the, Black Beaver, 340

Delaware, The Wichita Indians were encouraged by government agents to consolidate with the related Caddoan tribes, at a later period they were recorded as the “Wichita and Affiliated Tribes,” namely the Tawehash (Wichita), Tawakoni, Waco, and Kichai, together with the Caddo, Anadarko, and Hainai, and included also the Penateka Comanche and some, and Shawnee, 336

Delaware treaty, The last, gave 96,000 acres of the best land in Leavenworth County to the Missouri Pacific railroad company at a mere nominal sum, 328

Delaware tribe, There are 83 of the, and the history of the “big water” is a familiar story with them, as their forefathers at one time inhabited what is now the State of Delaware, 405

Delaware, Wilson Sarcoxie, a much respected, and others of his tribe came up, and seeing that a white man of the Sheriff’s party was drunk, Sarcoxie informed him of his authority to disarm all men in that country when in his condition, attempted to do so, and a scuffle ensued, At the request of Rogers to quit the spring for a more suitable locality on the hill nearby, they did so, and the drunken white man was disarmed by a sober Indian, When Sarcoxie rejoined the party at the spring, he discovered a flask of whiskey in Rogers’ pocket, and told him that he was also authorized to take and spill whiskey, he grasped the flask, and while pouring its contents upon the ground, Rogers struck him upon the head with a revolver, whereupon Sarcoxie shot him, the ball passing through the wrist and lodging under the skin at the elbow, Rogers and his posse then shot and instantly killed Sarcoxie, After going about a mile from the battle ground, they stopped to dress Rogers’ wound, and while there, were overtaken and fired into by a party of Delawares, which resulted in the instant death of Rogers, the wounding of an assistant, the capture of the white man and a half-breed Osage, who had married a Cherokee woman, The prisoners, when last seen by parties willing to acknowledge it, were being led into the brush by the Delawares, 397

Delaware woman, It appears that Frank Rogers, a deputy Cherokee Sheriff and lover of whiskey, with three assistants, was scouring the country for the purpose of arresting a Mexican who had married a, 397

Delegation, Acting Agent Stubbs has shown us a telegram stating that Indian Inspector Kemble and a, of Ponca Indians from Dakota are on their way to this place, 142

Delegation, A, from the settlers on the border have brought down to the agency the pony which the thieves and murderers took with them, and seemed desirous of doing all they could to restore friendly relations with the Indians, 65

Delegation, After the treaty is made, if its terms are satisfactory, we hope our congressional, will use every exertion in its power in urging its ratification, in order that this valuable body of lands may be speedily opened for settlement, 55

Delegation, Agent Woodin with a numerous, of his Otoe charges were in town last week and took down two trains of building materials and miscellaneous supplies, 204

Delegation, An extended council has been held in Washington between the Indian, now there and Secretary of Interior and Commissioner Parker, on behalf of the government, 337


Delegation, A, of Northern Cheyennes and Sioux lately visited the camp of Bull Bear to induce him to go North and fight the whites, but the old chief wisely concluded he had enough war after the troubles of 1874, and told them to go back and not to come to him again on such an errand, 401

Delegation, As the, from Pine Ridge Agency was expected to reach Rosebud Agency on the evening of the 5th, Spotted Tail concluded to wait until the next morning and go with the Red Cloud delegation to Yankton Agency, 381

Delegation, A St. Joe Herald’s interview says the, took wagons at Wichita, 424 miles through the Territory to Muskogee, on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas road, driving 25 days, 371

Delegation, At midnight on the 31st of December a, of the chief men of the Arapahos and Cheyennes, twenty-one in number, arrived at Fort Cobb, begging peace, They report the tribes in mourning for their losses, their people starving, ponies dying, dogs all eaten up, no buffalo, 244

Delegation, Do you think if we should send a, of Texans of the larger losers of horses to Washington, they would fare as well as Red Cloud, and get 17 head of good horses? 302

Delegation, Gen. McNeil, in whose charge were the, of the Otoe and Missouria Chiefs, who passed through here two weeks since, returned to the city last Friday, Frank Schiffbauer, who piloted the party while in the Nation, accompanied the General on his return, The Indians with their trader, Capt. Barnes, arrived on Monday, and immediately left on the cars for Washington, The final location of the Indians will be made, of course, by the Secretary of the Interior, yet the Indians have expressed a decided preference for the Territory laying south of Red Rock, some seven miles from the crossing, and it is fair to presume that their preferences will be regarded, and the tribe located in that vicinity, 200

Delegation, If the latter report favorably, the bill will pass the Senate without trouble, as the Indian, is decidedly in favor of it, 395

Delegation, Later a, of Indians (Lone Wolf, Woman Heart, Red Otter, Dohasan, Sun Boy, Stumbling Bear, and one other) met Satanta and Big Tree at Saint Louis under a strong guard on the condition that the delegation would then proceed to Washington, After their interview with Satanta and Big Tree, the delegation proceeded on to Washington, Satanta and Big Tree being returned to prison in Texas, 306

Delegation, Members of the Cherokee, are paid $5 per diem and necessary expenses while at Washington, 102

Delegation, My own impression is that the Kansas, did everything in their power for the settlers, 388

Delegation, Owing to a technicality the Secretary sent to the Nation for the fresh signatures of the, It has, in all probability, been received back in Washington ere this, 387

Delegation, Prominent chiefs, who have been most noted in the recent fights, agreed to send a, of young men to the Territory to look at it, but if they reported the country as bad, they would not move, They still claim the Hills as theirs, and that the soldiers and gold hunters have no rights there, They insist on having a talk with the Great Father before they make a move in any direction, 367


Delegation, Resolved, That copies of the above preamble and resolutions be forwarded to each member of our Congressional, and to the Walnut Valley Times, Emporia News, Topeka Commonwealth, and Lawrence Tribune, 57

Delegations, In 1872 Pawnee, came south in search of a location in Indian Territory due to the sale of their Nebraska reservation lands, 207

Delegations, Our, our lawyers, and friends have failed to stay the onward progress of usurpations, Our prayers, memorials, and petitions have fallen unheeded on the ears of Congress and department of officers, 385

Delegations, The Indian Progress says that the, or lobbyists sent to Washington from the Indian Territory cost the Indians the sum of $236 per day, of this amount the Cherokees pay $108 per day, the remainder is paid by the Seminoles and the Creeks, The Progress says these delegations are expensive luxuries in view of the fact that the Territory might have a member of Congress on the floor without any expense to the people, 391

Delegations, Three, of Sioux are starting to Washington about this time, one of the Ogallalas, in charge of Agent Saville, of the Red Cloud Agency, another from the Brulé Sioux, under charge of Agent Howard, of Spotted Tail Agency, and the third delegation is made up of chiefs from the Northern Indians—the Minneconjous, Sans Arcs and Unepapas, in charge of Agent Bingham, of the Grand River Agency, 345

Delegation, That the proceeds of said lands shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, and placed to the credit of the Cherokee Nation, and shall be paid to the treasurer of the Cherokee Nation, on the order of the legislative council of the Cherokee Nation, or a, thereof duly authorized, 396

Delegation, That this act shall take effect and be in force from the date of its acceptance by the legislature of the Cherokee Nation, or of a, thereof duly authorized, who shall file certificate of acceptance, 396

Delegation, The interpreters for the Sioux, say they will come to this country, and bring the Sioux tribe with them, 100

Delegation, The first, of eighty-four boys and girls from Red Cloud and Spotted Tail’s bands of Sioux arrived in October, 1879, These children were fresh from the lodges, utterly wild and uncivilized, clad in their savage garb, with long unkempt hair and painted faces, 281

Delegation, The, of “blood-thirsty” Sioux Indians, mentioned in another column, were in Wichita last Saturday, The Beacon office men still retain their scalps, 369

Delegation, The Smithsonian intends to make application to Congress for the necessary funds to defray the expense of this, 392

Delegation, This, of citizens accompanied Sherman to Fort Sill in order to recover horses and cattle which the Indians had stolen from them, 304

Delegation, Two days later General Sherman received a, of citizens from Jack and Parker counties asking for more protection, among whom were W. W. Duke, R. J. Winders, J. B. Robinson, W. W. McConnell, Peter Hart, and H. H. Gaines, 304

Delegation, We did not recognize among them any members of the, which accompanied Inspector Kemble through here, and left him unceremoniously at Arkansas City, 145

Delegation, We hope that each fair may be visited by a, of Indians, and that every delegation will be treated with the same respect that was shown to these, and have no doubt but that it will reach our neighboring tribes with a civilizing influence, 181


Delphi, We were spared the trouble of naming it; the charter of the Preston (Texas) and Salina railroad has already christened it, 23

Deming and his party were almost certainly killed by Cheyennes of “Big Jake’s” band, 259

Deming, A. N., of Arkansas City, (father of Edgar N. Deming, surveyor), 258

Deming, Edgar N., son of A. N. Deming of Arkansas City, was the compassman, Mr. Deming, being the leader of the surveying party, is supposed to be the reason why he was the only one of the party who was scalped by the Indians, 258-259

Deming, mangled body of Mr., was buried here on the 7th March, 259

Denison and Coffeyville cattle trail to Culbert’s ferry on Red River, 414

Denison, Texas, 47, 312, 414-415

Denison, Mr., Vice President, A mistaken land policy was adopted by, and Land Commissioner Goodnow, against the protest of the General Manager, Mr. Stevens, The appraisement was raised to five dollars and as high as twenty-five dollars per acre, It was oppressive and they could not pay for their land, 68

Denison, Vice President, of the M. K. & T. Railroad, The beauties of the brother-in-law system was illustrated in the inefficiency and imbecility of Land Commissioner Goodnow, brother-in-law of, by which the road is now a loser to the amount of $2,000,000, Goodnow insulted the settlers, and Denison had upheld him in his weak and vacillating policy, 68

Denver, June 6, Eight companies of the Fifth cavalry, under command of Lieutenant Colonel Carr, passed through here today, en route to join General Crook’s expedition, 357

Denver, This route will be by the Santa Fe to McPherson, thence to, by the Kansas Division, and on to Cheyenne and Ogden, 198

Denver and Pueblo, Its eastern termini is Chicago, its northern, Minneapolis and St. Paul, its western, 292

Denver City, Our information from Sheridan is that Col. Greenwood’s surveying party, who are engaged in surveying the route of the railroad (Kansas Pacific) from Sheridan to, were attacked Saturday morning, about fifteen miles west of Sheridan, by a party of some fifty Cheyennes, 253

Denver, stage line to, and Brevet Lieut. Col. Carpenter’s company, then en marche protecting the, reaching Forsyth on the morning of the 25th of September, 239

Denver stage line, To guard the lines of the Union Pacific Railroad and the, and other interests in this State, 238

Denver, stage line to, While Gen. Sully was operating south of the Arkansas, Capt. Graham, with his company of the Tenth Cavalry, was sent out from Wallace to give as much protection as he could along the, 239

Department of the Missouri, Headquarters, In The Field, Ft. Hays, October 9, 1868, 234

Department of the Missouri, Headquarters, In The Field, Ft. Hays, November 16, 1868, 237

Department of the Missouri, I assumed the permanent command of the, March 2, 1868, relieving Brevet Major Gen. A. J. Smith, Colonel Seventh Cavalry, temporarily in command, The Department comprises the districts of New Mexico, the Indian Territory, Kansas, the Upper Arkansas, and the State of Missouri, 237

Department of the Missouri, Major General Sheridan, commanding the, has forwarded his annual report of affairs within his command for the year 1868, to Lieut. Gen. W. T. Sherman, commanding the Military Division of the Missouri, 236-241


Department of the Missouri, When the Indian war broke out during that year he served with the army under Generals Hancock and Custer, and in 1868 was appointed Chief of Scouts for the, He remained in service until 1871, when he had the management of the Grand Duke Alexis’ hunting party, 376

Deroin, Batiste, On last Thursday Gen. McNeil, accompanied by four chiefs of the Otoe and Missouria tribes, Interpreter, and their trader, Capt. F M. Barnes, arrived in town en route for the Territory, whither they were bound for the purpose of looking up a location for their tribes, numbering some seven or eight hundred, 199

Deroin, Batiste, The agent, L. E. Woodin, interpreter, blacksmiths, carpenters, etc., were with the party, 202

Deseret News, Mormon church organ at Salt Lake, 113

Dessaix, The fate of poor Lo is a sad one, but like Napoleon at Marengo, when informed of the death of, we have not time to weep for him, 175

Detroit Free Press, 255

Deweeze, Samuel H., Purchaser, Cherokee Strip Lands. 394

Dexter, Among its correspondence, Lazette, Red Bud, Otto, Maple City, Silverdale, Winfield, Nennescah, Oxford, Salt City, Guelph, South Haven, Caldwell, Kaw Agency, and several Ranches in the Territory, are represented, 28

Dexter, A new mail route has been established between Eureka and this place, by the way of Grouse Creek post office, Lazette, and Cabin Valley, Service to begin at once, and mail to be carried once a week, arriving at and leaving Arkansas City on Wednesday, It will give us communication with post offices that heretofore were difficult to reach, 29

Dexter, Kansas, Tom Gilbert, of the Kaw Agency, went to, last Saturday, and at night accompanied some young folks to a party, Tom had no acquaintances in the burg, and when he went to settle his hotel bill next morning, he missed his pocket book, and not until the girls whose acquaintance he had courted so earnestly the night before told the landlord that they would see the bill paid, could he get back into the nation, 135

Dexter, Within a distance of five miles from Baltimore, Lazette, Moscow, Tisdale, Silverdale, Maple City, and Otto, there are a number of vacant tracts of good land, belonging to the Government, 31

Diamond Creek, Cottonwood Falls citizens who saw the Indians on, 226

Diamond Creek, Indians—said to be Cheyennes, from 400 to 600 strong have been on, and are marching toward the Kaw Reserve, for the express purpose of fighting the Kaws, 226

Diamond Creek, Word has just come to us direct from, They are there, killing stock and cleaning out every house, There may be some degree of exaggeration, but there is no doubt but what there is a large number of Indians, and committing all sorts of depredations, 226

Diamond Front Grocery, They went into the, and there introduced themselves in the same manner to Johnnie Kroenert, 435

Diamond Wash, a descending cellar-way entrance eighteen miles long, to the Grand Canon,  424

Dillon, Judge, and Justice Miller, have rendered a verdict which it is generally conceded will be affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States, giving the land to the settlers, 68


Dillon, Judge, of the Kansas District Court, and Justice Miller, of the Supreme Court, The case was decided by, January 1874, the decision being against the railroad and in favor of the settlers, 85

Dilworth, (Arkansas City freighter), 404

Disappearance, A shooting affray which resulted in the death of two men and the mysterious, of two others occurred near the old Osage Agency, on Cana River, in the Cherokee Nation, on the 17th inst., but reports are so conflicting that facts are hard to obtain, 397

Disappear, At the present rate of decrease, these tribes will soon, from the earth, 56

Disappear, but this obstacle is soon to, since the Government surveyors are now in the field, 61

Disappeared, By the end of 25 years even the big wooden hotel, the last prominent landmark, had, 436

Disappeared, One of the last vestiges of the ill-starred town of Cale, Ks., Monday when the county commissioners issued an order vacating as a town site the portion of the original tract now owned by John Ranney and removing from it the designations of blocks, streets, and alleys which were a difficulty in tax filings, 436

Disappearing, mile after mile we passed along, with the “TRAVELER”, in the distance, 131

Discovery, above, miners, who are working claim No. 11, Deadwood Gulch, 379

Discovery of gold, After the, in California in 1849, the economics of freighting changed, 12

Discovery of the American mounds opened the floodgates of speculation, 421

Discovery, Sheridan had himself made the, 419

Discovery, They were somewhat astonished at the, 347

District Court, for false imprisonment, He brought suit in the, 14

District court, Preliminary trial was waived, and the parties were bound over to appear at the, in the sum of $1,000, Failing in bond, they went to jail, 129

District of Columbia, Mr. Wm. Stickney, of the, 170

District of Columbia, The Grand Jury of the, have agreed to return an indictment against Belknap for bribery, 271

District of Kansas, Case 401. Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railway Company vs. the United States, Appeal from the Circuit Court for the, 83

District of Kansas has been under the control of Brevet Lieut. Col. T. C. English, Major Fifth Infantry, since the departure of Gen. Hoffman, 237

District of Kansas, The earnest and successful working of Hon. W. R. Brown, Representative in Congress for the Third, 395

District of New Mexico, commanded by Brevet Major Gen. C. W. Getty, is an old and established command, It has within its limits the Navajo nation of Indians, the Utes, and wandering bands of Apaches, together with a few bands of semi-civilized Indians, 237

District of New Mexico, The first column was led by General Getty, commanding the, His force was organized at Fort Bascom, 296

District of the Indian Territory, The, is also an old District having in it the posts of Forts Gibson and Arbuckle, and has been under the command of Brevet Major Gen. Grierson, Colonel Tenth Cavalry, since May, 1868, 237


District of the Upper Arkansas, The, embraces nearly all the Territory of Colorado and that portion of Kansas west of a north and south line through Fort Harker and has been commanded by Brevet Brig. Gen. A. Sully, Lieutenant Colonel Third Infantry, since May, 1868, 236-237

Dix, David, of Winfield, The couple did have a daughter, 8th child, named Harriett, who married a, of Winfield, 433

Dix, Harriett (Hunt), 433

Dixie, Bolton Township, 273

Doane, Amos, A Kaw Indian named, was publicly whipped, 136-137

’Dobe Walls, [Refers to Adobe Walls.], 13

Doby Wells, [Refers to Adobe Walls.], 311

Dodale, (Kaw), student in the “preparatory department” of the “Kaw College” on their reserve, 126

Doddridge & Markley, have closed their grocery store, 435

Dodge, and Hays to, 238

Dodge, and to guard the line of the Arkansas to New Mexico there were the posts of Larned, Lyon, and Reynolds, and the outposts of Zarah and the mouth of Little Arkansas, 238

Dodge, As soon as the failure of the grass and the cold weather forces the scattered bands to come together to winter in the milder latitudes south of the Arkansas, a movement of troops will then take place from Lyon, Bascom, and Arbuckle, which I hope will be successful in gaining a permanent peace, 241

Dodge, but in addition there were a number of movements from posts, especially from Forts Wallace, Lyon, and Hays, in which some Indians were killed, 240

Dodge City and Wichita, All through the northern part of the Territory we met bone hunters gathering buffalo bones for sale at, 276

Dodge City, A special dispatch to the Commonwealth from, August 17th, says: “The report of Indian depredations is correct, Four men were picked up from one to three miles east of Aubrey station by conductor Hampton on Saturday afternoon, Two of them were scalped and horribly mutilated, and had been burned, The other two were not scalped, 262

Dodge City, After winning in this engagement, Bat and the boys collected all of the dead warriors’ raiments and took them back to, 13

Dodge City, After working a year or more, they left, last fall and went hunting through the territory until they reached the South Canadian in Texas, where they wintered, trapping and hunting, with tolerable success, 260

Dodge City Chamber of Commerce, The Indian costumes were utilized by the, for the next several decades in entertaining visiting dignitaries with simulated Indian raids upon their persons, 13

Dodge City, Contracts are to be let at Fort Leavenworth, on the 10th day of June, for wagon transportation from Caddo to Fort Sill, Indian Territory, Wichita, Kansas, to Fort Reno, I. T., or Fort Dodge, Kansas, to Camp Supply, I. T., Dodge City, or Fort Dodge, Kansas, to Fort Elliot, Texas, and a number of other points farther west, 317

Dodge City, June 26, A large meeting of Texas drovers was held in the courthouse in this city this evening, at which fifty drovers were present, to take action on the depredations committed by Kiowa and Comanche Indians on through herds of Texas cattle while en route

through the Indian Territory to the northern country, 323


Dodge City, Last week between Dodge City and Camp Supply, five farmers who lived in that vicinity, and were hunting buffalo, were killed by Indians, 262

Dodge City, P. G. Noble, adjutant-general of Kansas, accompanied by A. F. French, James Masterson, and Geo. Sullivan, of, are in Leavenworth as witnesses for the purpose of seeing the Cheyenne prisoners, now confined in the guard-house at Fort Leavenworth, 276

Dodge City, Major General John Pope has notified Governor St. John that the captured Cheyennes are to be brought to Fort Leavenworth, and calls upon the citizens of, Ellis, and other places where murders and depredations were committed, to come forward and identify the murderers, that they may be tried and brought to punishment, 276

Dodge City Times says a hunting party has returned from the Cimarron River where they killed 125 turkeys, 300 quails, 4 deer, and 4 buffalo, 103

Dodge, Colonel, with three cavalry companies as a military escort, left Camp Jenney, 346

Dodge, Colonel, with the remainder of the command, proceeded in a southeasterly direction until Custer’s Peak was reached, 346

Dodge, crossed the Arkansas at, to strike the villages of the Indians reported on the Cimarron, about forty miles distant, 238

Dodge, I must not omit to mention our stampede which took place as we were coming from Supply to, 246

Dodge, Only small parties of Indians who had been depredating on the line from Harker to, were found, 240

Dodge, Pending the accumulation of supplies at, for an expedition to the Canadian River and Wichita Mountains, 240

Dodge, So much time was consumed in getting these companies from remote points that the rations for the expedition at, and with the command were eaten up, 238-239

Dodge, The two great commercial highways to Colorado and New Mexico, and the lateral roads connecting them from Harker to Larned, and Hays to, and Wallace to Lyon, pass through the district, 238

Dodge, This party brought back three scalps, one of which was that of the express man killed and horribly mutilated between, and Larned, just before Gen. Sheridan left the former fort, The mail he was carrying was found in Black Kettle’s camp, 242

Dodge Trail, Last evening a herder came into the ranch, stating that a Mr. Cannon, a man in charge of a herd of Kennedy’s cattle had been shot by one of the hands, a Mr. Robinson, about 25 miles out on the, was badly if not mortally wounded, 273

Dodge trail, Riding up Turkey Creek until we found the trail of the wagon, to which it was supposed the old man belonged, We took the back trail, as the party had come from Medicine Lodge, on the, and traveled south, 330

Dodge, We did not, as anticipated, return to the regiment after our first trip to this place, but returned to, again, where we have been making our headquarters ever since and doing escort duty from here to Hays, Larned, Camp Supply, and other points in the vicinity of Dodge, 246

Dog, A dance was given in honor of their visit, and a feast on roast, indulged in, C. M., 284

Dog, A Pawnee Indian passed through town last week with a large fat, on his shoulders, which he said was “heap good—Pawnee eat him,” 211


Dog check, The children adorn themselves with every variety of jewelry that can be obtained, and frequently make their own earrings, bracelets, and breastplates, On one we could not help noticing were large key checks, as we at first thought, but examination proved it to be some city, as the inscription read “No. 74, Dog Tax Paid,” Taking a thorough look at the owner of the metal, we concluded she was properly labeled, 403

Dog, He owns a full bloodhound, which we endeavored to get for the Bolton S. P. U., but the, could not be bought, 415

Dog-eaters, The Kaws are rather a fine looking set of Indians, The full bloods wear their blankets and scalp lock, and do much painting, They wear huge bunches of rings in their ears and pride themselves in gaudy feathers, while the squaws like bright colors, They are called, by the Osages, just because they have an appetite for dog meat, either rare or well done, 118

Dog instinct prevailed, Spotted Horse was a Pawnee Indian, whose custom it was to make periodical visits to Caldwell with one or more of his squaws, bartering their persons to the lusts of two-legged white animals in whom the, prevailed, 221

Dog meat, White Eagle is a fat, hearty-looking chap, and said he didn’t have any desire to go on the warpath, but would be content with extra rations of beef and, 193

Dog, “Red Dog” derived his name from his coming into camp on all fours, being so badly wounded and covered with blood that he resembled a red, 370

Dogs all eaten up, They report the tribes in mourning for their losses, their people starving, ponies dying, no buffalo, 244

Dogs, All through the camp, of almost every description were to be seen from a lap dog to the largest Newfoundland, Many of them were crossed with the wolf, as is generally the case with Indian dogs, 402

Dogs, and cats,—with the stars and stripes fluttering in the breeze, Accordingly, we sent out word yesterday for all to come in and celebrate the Centennial anniversary of American independence, and they came en masse: Indians, squaws, papooses, 134

Dogs, As we walked through the camp the little children ran and screamed at the sight of strange white men, and the, showed by their barking that they were not accustomed to white intruders, 406

Dogs, At night we all took in the Winnebago dance, The Osages just recently bought it of the Winnebago’s; they gave them nine ponies for it, yet to save my life I can’t tell any difference unless at the Winnebago dance the, barked a little louder, 120

Dogs, Especially is this so among sheep herders, who lose from two to half a dozen sheep every few days, caused by Indians setting their, upon a flock and capturing two or three in spite of the herders, 324

Dogs, Friday, 21st, Went down to Cheyenne, Stopped with Murphy and Keller, Put my mare (Hattie) in Connell’s stable, and tied up the, Raining all day, 49

Dogs, From about the south line of Kansas, we came in the prairie dog region, where it is said that the, owls, rabbits, and rattlesnakes all live together, in their houses dug out in the ground, We saw many of the dogs, which are about the size of a polecat, We also saw some of the owls, 256

Dogs, Horses and, were all the meat we had, 266

Dogs, Indian, and wolves do not fight, but play together on the plains, 102


Dogs, I tell you, gentlemen, you can hear the wolves now if you listen, but you are used to it and don’t mind them, nor did I until that time; but when my fire was gone, they’d get around that dug-out at nights, and howl like, over their dead master, It wasn’t cheerful at the start and didn’t grow more comfortable as the days turned into weeks, 378

Dogs, John Stink was always getting drunk, One time they thought he was dead, At that time when they buried someone, they would sit that person up, stack rocks around him (or her) until the body was covered; and then place a flag on a pole stick in the pile of rocks, This procedure was carried out with John Stink, Luckily for John Stink, he always had a pack of, After he sobered up on this occasion, one of the dogs dug him out, He wanted nothing to do with people after that! 421

Dog skin, In the fine art hall the things that called out the most praise from Yellow Bull were a tanned, and a variegated rug, which he remarked would make a good saddle blanket, 181

Dogs, Mad, have fits and bite stock on Bird Creek, 100

Dogs, Mr. Stink had a habit of going into town, where he would lie down on the street with his, all around him, No one dared go near him, They were forced to walk around him and his companions, 421

Dog Soldier band of Cheyennes, It seems that the Indians, who are supposed to have been members of the, came upon the settlement about an hour after dark, They divided into bands of from five to seven, and made simultaneous attacks in different localities, 252

Dog Soldiers, Among the 200 lodges were those of the, the most mischievous, bloodthirsty, and barbarous band of Indians that infest the Plains, 249

Dogs, Osage Indian, are part wolf, 102

Dogs, Osages have quit eating, 108

Dogs, Shortly the drum began to beat just a little, then some old brave gave a whoop, then hit the drum, then another whoop, and then the old drum had to take it, Then the choir would go after a lingo as “Hi-ko, hi-ko,” The noise began to stir up the, and all the dogs in the band were brought in to bark for the dance, Up would jump some young brave and hop to the center, stoop over them backwards, then he would give one of those terrible whoops and say “hi-ko” and then the whole gang would begin to come in, and then such motions and whoops until about 30 braves were dancing and not less than 150 dogs barking, On went the drum, on sang that choir, on went the dance, and on went the whoop, and on barked the dogs, and away out over the prairie went the echo, 119-120

Dog’s tail, Our only regret is that they do not make the mistake the Dutchman did when he cut off the, and cut their fool heads off, 161

Dog Stealer’s son married Mo-show-ka-she’s daughter last week, He gave ten ponies for his bride, 108

Dogs, The Chetopa Herald says the agent of the Ponca Indians, now located near Baxter Springs, has decided to remove them to a part of the Arapaho and Cheyenne reservation, south of Arkansas City, This will cause a still greater demand for dead, 145

Dogs, Then was enacted a scene such as, perhaps, was never before witnessed, nor has it since, in all probability; all the, in the command—and there was every breed and size, for the average United States soldier loves a dog—joined in the pandemonium that followed the chase for the bewildered birds, 420

Dogs, this will cause a still greater demand for dead, 145


Dogs, two or three, would be carrying their dinner from the other end, 119

Dogs, Two wolves went into the village of Sac and Fox Agency last week, and amid the howling of, and the firing of guns, caught and carried off a pig, 94

Dogs, without the aid of, 84

Dogs, Why, Mr. Editor, those who came in here yesterday to beg to be received were a lot of poor, half-starved creatures, their ponies were also starving, for the reason that since Gen. Custer took the field they have not had time to graze their ponies nor to kill meat for themselves, Their ponies are dying by the hundreds, and they are living on their, They have been able to make but few robes; consequently, they are poorly clad, They have learned that the way of the transgressor is hard, 247

Dog, To read of the old time Indian, is exciting, but here you come in direct contact with them, and too direct, if you are not careful, They are a vicious looking lot of canine specie, I think the tribe owns about 600, We visited their camps, while they were cooking and drying their meat, Perhaps while a squaw was working at one end of a piece of meat, two or three dogs would be carrying their dinner from the other end, 119

Dogwoods, We then started west, ran through a mile of timber with a dense undergrowth of, grapevines, and mosquitos, and came within a few feet of a line mound, 16

Dohasan, (Kiowa), 306

Dolby, Walt, (Arkansas City freighter), 406

Dolls, Henry, and brother, While there we visited the school under charge of, and were astonished at the rapid progress made among the Indian children, They repeated the multiplication table from two times one are two, to twelve times twelve are 144, with rapidity, and read, spelled, and sang readily, 403

Dolls, Mr., is an Englishman by birth and has the reputation of being one of the best Indian educators in the Territory, In his school thirteen different tribes are represented, as follows: Wichita, Caddos, Utes, Comanches, Creeks, Kechis, To-wak-o-nies, Delawares, Wacos, Cherokees, Seminoles, Shawnees, and Chickasaws, All learn fast, considering their circumstances and prejudices, As we entered the school, the teacher was endeavoring to convince the younger ones that the earth was round, which seemed to be received as a preposterous idea, when they could look out the window and see it was flat, There were eighty-three pupils in the room, and the roll showed a list of more than one hundred, but as they are permitted to go to their camps on Sunday, many had not yet come in, 403

Donaldson, Gen. Custer’s final official report to Gen. Terry recapitulates his former statements, and takes strong ground in favor of the immediate opening of the Black Hills for military reasons, endorses the part of gold discoveries, and suggests further operations next season, Nevertheless, professors Winchell and, asserted that Custer does not know of his own knowledge that any color of gold was found in the Black Hills, 342-343

Don Juan de Oñate, in 1601, led an expedition into the same region, He was the first to map the trails that cross on the bluffs above Arkansas City, 335

Donnelly, Mr., He was 63 years of ages and up to the time of his death lived with his son-in-law, at Cale, The deceased was a cousin of David Weir of this city, 435

Doolittle, J. S., In company with ten or a dozen of our citizens we went “post haste” to Cottonwood Falls last week on the receipt of the letter from Messrs. H. L. Hunt and, 227


Doolittle, J. S., Think you had better take immediate steps for safety, also send such help as you can up this way, respectfully, H. L. Hunt, 226

Doolittle, The following is the letter received from Hunt and, 226

Dorn, A. J., Fr. Schoenmakers’ statement in a letter August 28, 1856, to, Indian Agent, was more than a little prophetic, “Our Osages are well aware that their former mode of living is fast closing upon them, Ten years ago they numbered 5,000 souls; at present they hardly exceed 3,500,” 52

Dorn, Andrew J., With the approach of the Civil War, the Indian Agent, sympathized and sided with the south, Without waiting for the appointment of his successor in office, he began to persuade his Osage Indian wards, whom he had treated fairly, to take up the southern cause, A loyal supporter of the North, Fr. Schoenmakers did, by his influence, succeed in keeping most of his Osage students in allegiance to the Union, Dorn spent most of his time with the Indian bands on the Verdigris, Chief Black Dog and Second Chief, Wa-po-pek-eh, were most susceptible to his influence and soon joined in spreading his propaganda, Dorn later became a Quartermaster at Bonham, Texas, in the rebel service, 53

Dorsey, J. Owen, Washington, 169

Dorsey, Rev. J. Owen, Some three years since, the, an Episcopalian Missionary, was sent to labor among these people, 144

Doty, Levi, and Uncle Billy Rodgers, have gone to take a squint at the yellow dirt in the Black Hills country, 354

Double Mountain, not far from, 317

Dougan, Doc., A gentleman writing from Salt Lake, asks the editor of the Indian Herald, published at Osage Agency, whether the paper is edited by half- or full-blood Indians, That’s tough on, 98

Dougan & Co., W. McKay, I wish to ask a few questions to be answered in the Herald, 98

Dougan, Dr., Col. Hiatt and, of Osage Agency, have just returned from the plains, where they have been looking after the Osages, 80

Dougan, Dr., the Agency physician, was summoned, and found an oblique fracture of the shaft of the femur bones of the right thigh, and a compound fracture of the upper third of the humerus bone of the left arm, In the absence of other physicians or surgeons, the doctor called in N. P. Delarue and R. W. Hopkins as assistants, and dressed the wounds, and at this writing the boy is doing well, though his physician thinks the bone of the arm was so badly crushed, and so near the neck, that it cannot be kept straight, The Government has no hospital accommodations at this place, consequently, the practice of medicine and surgery, in many instances, must be attended with more or less dissatisfaction both to patient and practitioner, 94

Dougan, Dr., well known by our citizens as the former physician for the Osages and later for the Pawnees, 112

Dougan, Dr. W. McKay, I found so much work awaiting me here, that it has been impossible to fulfill my promise sooner, 109


Dougan, Dr. W. McKay, We had a pleasant call this morning from, For eight years he has had charge of the medical department at Osage and Pawnee Indian Agencies, Indian Territory, during which time he founded the Indian Herald, This was the first newspaper ever published among the Osages, and the largest paper ever published in the Indian Territory, He now visits Salt Lake as a correspondent for the Kansas City, Mo., Times, and was yesterday shown through the Temple Block by Bishop Kelser and others, and we hope to see in the Times what we expect of few Gentile papers—the truth about “Mormonism,” The above is clipped from the Deseret News, the Mormon church organ at Salt Lake, A letter from Dr. Dougan will be found in the Times this morning, We have no doubt of his truthfulness in writing about Mormonism, while associating with the saints in Zion, and we also think he will quit the New Jerusalem without tasting the sweets of polygamy, The whole heart of one true woman is enough for Dr. Dougan, K. C. Times, Wonder if the Times knows what it is talking about? We are rather afraid the Doctor’s bump of amativeness would prove too much for him in a case of emergency, you see Osage and Pawnee agencies are not so far removed from Arkansas City as from Kansas City or Salt Lake City, It is barely possible for some people to crave two or three hearts of true women, 112-113

Douglass, About the same time one Quimby, a leading merchant in, Mike Dray, his partner, Dr. Morris and his Son, were arrested, tried, and held to bail for stealing horses, While being guarded that they might procure the bail, Quimby and his wife made strong threats of raising their clan and taking vengeance upon the citizens, who were staking their all on “cleaning out” the thieves, On Thursday night, 2nd inst., some seventy men came to relieve the guard, and end the practices of these wretched men, They were hung a mile and a half south of Douglass, This makes eight of the band that have been put out of the way lately, and I am assured by the best of citizens, that the battle being joined, never will they hold up, nor cry enough till it is decided whether thieves or honest men are to rule the valley, and upon this frontier, 62

Douglass, Butler County is larger than the State of Rhode Island: too large for convenience or comfort, There is much talk about carving a new county out of it and Cowley; in which case, either, or Augusta would probably be the county seat, 22

Douglass, near the Southern line of Butler County, has a beautiful site, three stores, extensive water-power, and one of the best hotels on the border, 22

Douglass, The next thing I heard, as they returned to Wichita and, was of the detection of four of the gang, two Booths, Corbin, and Smith, 61

Douglass, Three miles south of, we enter Cowley County and the Osage Reserve, 22

Douglass, Sunday, July 31, 1870, We will start this morning, Left Emporia, Not much settled around Emporia, Camped south side of Rock Creek just below, 26

Douglass, Wednesday, August 3, 1870, Saw wood 15 ft. high in the timber, Camped 5 miles above Winfield, The best bottom land between, and Arkansas in Kansas, Measuring from one to five miles, 26

Downing, Col. Lewis, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation., 385-386

Downing, Col., Chief of the Cherokee Nation, was married some two weeks since to Miss Ayers, a wealthy and cultivated maiden lady of Philadelphia, 386

Downing, Lewis, son of the Chief, Some years ago she adopted young, 386

Downing, Mrs., A few months since occurred the death of, a full blood Cherokee, 386

Doyle, Dr. W. E., Number of Indians and Names of Some Western Indian Chiefs in 1806, by, 106


Doyle, John, 262

Dozen-a-Hill Howling, (Northern Cheyenne, I. T.) [Bad Indian], 44

Drake and Duck, It takes some watching to see that Drake does not get Duck’s mail, It would not be the first instance of a Drake getting a Duck’s property, however, 30

Dray, Mike, About the same time one Quimby, a leading merchant in Douglass, his partner, Dr. Morris and his Son, were arrested, tried, and held to bail for stealing horses, 62

Drum Creek, They had crossed, southwest of Independence when they spotted a group of mounted white men, 53

Drummond, Commissioner, To get information in regard to the matter, our townsman, Mr. C. E. Kelsey, addressed, a letter, in reply to which he received the following letter, 63

Drummond, Willis, Commissioner, 63, 64

Drums, A lot of painted devils blowing whistles at the sun, pounding and yelling at raw-hide, 161

Drums and fife, Around a large camp fire, with, singing and cheering as only soldiers can, 36

Drums, Some eight or ten Indians beat upon a couple of large improvised raw-hide, with monotonous precision, the while raising their voices in the most discordant yells imaginable, 160

Drums, The, made a deafening noise, 160

Duke, W. W., 304

Dull Knife, (Cheyenne Chief), told Crook they came here to stay, 46

Dull Knife, and Big Head, He ordered the arrests of the chiefs, intending to hold them under guard as hostages for the women captives, 249

Dunagan, Sergt. Jas. H., 247

Dundy, Judge Elmer, A trial proceeded before, 152

Dundy, Judge, in the United States Circuit this morning decided in the Ponca Indian case, 168

Dundy, Judge, Standing Bear won the agreement of, when he held out his hand and said, “My hand is not the color of yours; but if I pierce it, I shall feel pain, The blood that will flow from mine will be the same color as yours, I am a man, The same God made us both,” 152

Dunlap & Florer’s, They produced a trade dollar of, and from signs made the whites understand that they wanted to trade it for hair, 109

Dunn, Archie, our elegant bus man, informs us that he has been going to meet the in-coming train from Cale for 30 days and as yet has not been rewarded for his trouble by getting one passenger uptown, None ever came up from Cale, 434

Dunning, Sheriff, and a saddle and bridle belonging to, then started for that thief harbor, the Territory, 317


Dutch Creek, This place, Lagonda, is situated 16½ miles south of the north line of the county, at the mouth of, a beautiful stream of water putting into the Walnut River from the northeast, and large enough for mill privileges, Dutch Creek is one of the finest streams for stock raising in the State, with a beautiful and rich valley, and good timber upon it, It is settled some ten or twelve miles up from its mouth, Houses are fast being built, and settlers will soon find themselves in comfortable quarters, 21

Dutch Creek, Lagonda was first referred to as, Later it became Winfield, 21

Dutch Creek, The valleys grow in breadth and beauty, and numerous squatter cabints are visible, as we approach Lagonda, better known on the border as, 22

Dutchman, Our only regret is that they do not make the mistake the, did when he cut off the dog’s tail, and cut their fool heads off, 161

 

E

Eagle Creek, 124

Eagle Head, (Cheyenne Chief), 266

Eagle Head, (Kiowa or Comanche Chief), 318

Eagle Heart, (Kiowa Chief), 303-305

Eagle Machine Works at Chicago, 182

Eagle Plume, formerly chief of the Kaws, died after his return from Washington, 137

Eagle, The clans consist of, Elk, Deer, Buffalo, Peace, War, etc., 116

Earl, Edward, from New England, 125

Earle, Joseph, 44

Earth Blanket, (Nez Perce), 48-49

East Beaver, 31

Eastern and middle states, 31

Eastern capital, 30

Eastern cities, 434

 

Eastern Cowley County, 433

Eastern edge of the staked plains, 245

Eastern end, 82

Eastern friends, 125

Eastern frontier settlements, 239

Eastern land monopolists and speculators, 327

Eastern line, 238

Eastern men, 172

Eastern Oregon, 94, 177

Eastern paper, 162

Eastern part of the county, 18, 32

Eastern part, The following item from the Transporter, of the 25th inst., shows that C. M. was tearing around in good shape in the western part of the Territory while his namesake was being slain in the, 49

Eastern portion, 123. 309

Eastern press, 13

Eastern States, 116, 330, 361

Eastern termini, 292

Eastern termini, Its, is Chicago, its northern, Minneapolis and St. Paul, its western, Denver and Pueblo, 292


Eastern Washington, The remainder accompany Chief Joseph to, 198

EchoHawk, Brummett, The seal was designed by, a Tulsa, Oklahoma, artist, 224

Eddy, Eugene, and nephew, Mr. Charles Crosswell, son of ex-Gov. Crosswell of Michigan,  68

Eddy, Mrs., 162

Edmunds, Senator, for the railroad companies, 85

Edwards, interpreter for the latter tribes, 322

Eising, Andres, the Indian scout and interpreter, 317

E-keep-son-Ge, whose name is, translated, “Long-tailed Rat,” 55

Elahdidwah, The groom, a Kiowa brave, explained how the alliance was brought about, 319

Eldorado, 342, 344

El Dorado, 22, 24, 32, 57-58, 215, 236, 256

El Dorado Press, 215

El Dorado Times, 212

Eldridge, Hon. T. B., and J. C. Leach, of Coffeyville, were awarded the contract Monday, by Superintendent Nicholson, for furnishing supplies to the Pawnees, 212

Elgin, 32, 108, 265

Elk, A very valuable article among them is the tooth of an, as most elks have no teeth, and never more than two, They are prized very highly, two teeth being worth one mule, We noticed a little girl, the daughter of a chief, who wore a sack on which were sewn 27 teeth, worth about $1,300, and were informed that another had one worth $2,100 according to their estimated value, A herd of thirty elk roam within forty miles of the Agency, but are rarely killed, owing to their remarkable instinct of avoiding their enemies, 410

Elk City, On our way home we passed through St. Paul and, This last town, situated on Elk River, is quite a thriving place, and has a good country around it, 125

Elk Coming Out, (Northern Cheyenne, I. T.), [Bad Indian], 44

Elk Creek, at the junction of, and the North Fork of the Red River, 309

Elk Creek, Kiowa & Comanche Reservation, I. T., 311

Elk Creek, situated on the Elk River, 125

Elkhorn, On, near Ellsworth, Kansas, a few days previous, one young woman was ravished by twenty-two Indians, and the Surgeon at Fort Harker said she could not live, 230

Elk Horns, (Northern Cheyenne, I. T.), [Bad Indian], 44

Elk Killer, (Head Chief, Otoes), [Har-re-gar-re], 200

Elk River, (Northern Cheyenne, I. T.), [Bad Indian], 44

Elk River, But over on Verdigris we soon came to sandstone, which continues until we come about Fall River, and from there to, we see limestone, and from that southward sandstone until we get about 20 miles south of the State of Kansas, where we come to limestone again, 126

Elk River, Kansas, Farmers make rails of wild grape vines on, 100

Elk River, On our way home we passed through St. Paul and Elk City, This last town, situated on, is quite a thriving place, and has a good country around it, 125

Elk, The clans consist of Eagle, Deer, Buffalo, Peace, War, etc., 116

Elliott, James and Samuel, 303-304


Elliott, Major, Colonel Custer lost in this fight, and fifteen men who were detached from the main column, during the course of the engagement and massacred by the Indians, 297

Elliott, Major, is missing, 236

Ellis, calls upon the citizens of Dodge City, and other places where murders and depredations were committed, to come forward and identify the murderers, that they may be tried and brought to punishment, 276

Ellis, Jeremiah, of Adams Co., Ohio, 60

Ellis, Miss, The assistant teacher is, 176

Ellsworth, A special dispatch to the Conservative from, dated June 14th, gives the latest and the only Indian news of the week 251

Ellsworth, A train of thirteen large government wagons came in Monday night from, 258

Ellsworth, His home was 33 miles from Salina and 24 miles from, 252

Ellsworth, The first rumor of trouble was on Spillman Creek, eighteen miles N. E. of, where a band of two or three hundred Indians made their appearance last Monday, 230

Elmendaro, 124

Elm Springs,October 28th, at, Met Major Davis, of the Fourth Cavalry, 47

El Paso, A new stage driver has been put on the road between Wichita and, which hastens the arrival of this mail at this end, 29

El Paso, traveling via, Nennescah, and Winfield to Arkansas City, 29

El Reno, Canadian County, Oklahoma, He established the agency in Darlington in 1870 on the north side of the Canadian River, about two miles northwest of present, 225

El Reno, South via Guthrie and stage to Kingfisher, also via Oklahoma and the new Choctaw railroad for, 292

Ely, Agent, 216

Emigrant, 35-36

Emigrant Aid Company, 14

Emigrant cars, 36, 198

Emigrant railway fare New York to Arkansas City, $18.55, 36

Emigrant rates, Liverpool, England, to New York: First cabin $60 and $75, second cabin $40, steerage $26, 36

Emigrants, 31, 33, 35, 57, 62, 153, 353, 355, 361

Emigrant train at Pleasant Valley, The Indians at the same time attacked an, 351

Emporia, 17, 21, 23-27, 34, 42, 61, 63, 72, 91, 125, 130, 137, 148, 184, 187-188, 227, 243-244, 246, 256, 299, 301, 303

Emporia News, 11, 15, 21-23, 25, 55, 57, 60, 62-64, 124, 126-127, 144, 225-227, 229-236, 241-258, 298, 302-303, 306-307, 327, 336-337, 341, 383, 385-386

Emporia Tribune, He soon went to work for M. G. Mains, who was co-editor and proprietor with a Mr. Nixon of the, which published its first issue in the latter part of September 1869, 25

Endicott boys, notwithstanding we had been told that the, had been murdered and scalped by Indians a few days before, near the same place, 412

Endicott, Cass, (Arkansas City freighter), 406

Endicott, Hank, started for Caldwell this morning, to learn more about it if possible, 105


Endicott, Sam, (Arkansas City freighter), 406

Enemy, 80, 243, 291, 294, 327, 353, 358, 362, 365, 423

Enemy’s scalp, The Agent has been assured by leading men of the tribe that they will not commit any depredation when the mourning party goes out, but that they will merely go through the form of sending an, with him to the happy hunting rounds, 103

English, His brother is a minister of the gospel and an able scholar, can read Greek and Latin, and speaks, French, German, Spanish, and several Indian dialects, 418

English language, 19

English languages, There are but few people now living, who are conversant with both the Osage and, 102

English, T. C., Brevet Lieut. Col., Major Fifth Infantry, 237-238

English tourists, It seems that a party of, arrived at Camp Supply a few days ago for the purpose of engaging in a buffalo hunt, 307-308

En route, 27, 60, 76, 102, 144, 155, 158, 175, 179, 190, 199, 201-202, 205, 267, 273, 275, 290, 310, 312, 323, 333-334, 347, 357, 375

Episcopal, Boys’s, Christian Schools of Tokio, 426

Episcopal church, The funeral was conducted after the forms of the, 284

Episcopalian Missionary, an, Rev. J. Owen Dorsey, 144

Episcopalian Missionaries, During the years of long ago, before, commenced their labor of love among the Poncas, the “Sun dance” was their mode of worshiping the Great Spirit, 144

Erie, The railroad moved on down into Oklahoma, In the memory of several old timers here there was once a station at Cale, Ks., A town in Oklahoma was later named Cale and it was only a relatively few years ago that the name was changed to, 436

Erysipelas is in school, 105

Esaw, Joseph, (Ponca), and the Sioux was killed by, 167

Esaw, whilst Mr., interpreter for the Poncas, took a position in front of the assembled chiefs, 166

Escape, 25, 54, 65, 79, 98, 110, 112, 180, 225, 236, 254, 267, 269, 274, 299, 301, 303-305, 360, 365

Escaped, 54, 65, 79, 153, 254, 268-269, 279, 288, 291, 359, 379

Escapes, A law of the Nez Perce is that a widower shall not marry within a year after the death of his wife, But polygamy is allowed, and when a man thinks his sick wife is about to die, he marries another woman, and so, the weary year of waiting, 178

Escapes taxation, In most cases this interest is collected by non-residents and is not even expended in building homes or substantial improvements here, It also, One device or another is resorted to to keep the principal off the tax rolls of the county, 30

Ese-tike, is one of very peculiar meaning, “Ese”—wolf and “tike,”—tail, 407

Eskridge House, we took supper at the, Mr. Eskridge is a natural hotelist and accommodationist, 17

Espanyas, (Nez Perce), 284

Euniceville, very near the south line of the State, on the east bank of Little Cana, 125

Eureka, A new mail route has been established between, and this place by way of Grouse Creek post office, Lazette, Dexter, and Cabin Valley, 29


Euro-Americans, They were familiar with the Jesuits, known by them as the “Black Robes,” almost from their first contact with, 51

Europe, 15, 27, 33, 361, 430

 

 

Estus, W. T., I sent $2 by, and got a receipt from you, 29

Evans, About the same time, formed a partnership with a Mr. Fisher, in order to handle more efficiently his increasing business, In selling their goods it was necessary to charge abnormal prices to meet the Marsh agreement and have a margin of profit left, As a result of this state of affairs, those at the fort who had to buy from the traders raised a serious complaint that they paid exorbitant prices for their goods, The traders assured them that it was necessary to sell their goods above the usual price since they were paying the Secretary of War and Caleb P. Marsh $12,000 for agent rights, When this reason was first given to some of the officers it was hardly credited, but when it became known that other irregularities were reported at different posts and in the Indian country, more credence was stimulated in such reports, 314

Evans and Smith had the sutlership and Indian trade agency, but they kept one store from which they supplied the soldiers and the Indians, 270

Evans, Colonel A. W., The force advancing from Fort Bascom, under, consisting of 563 men, was to operate along the main Canadian, 296

Evans, Col., gave the final blow to the backbone of the Indian rebellion, 244

Evans, Colonel, Cheyennes and Arapahos report that another engagement between the forces under command of, of the Third Regular Cavalry, and the Indians, took place, 248

Evans, General, The forces of, were equally successful in demonstration to the Indians with whom they came in contact, 297

Evans’s command, Colonel, It was, which gave the redskins such a drubbing on Christmas day, 248

Evans, John S., secured permission to establish a trading-post at Fort Sill, 313-314

Evans made no secret of the fact that he had to purchase his sutlerships, 270

Evans, S. B., is satisfied that the same race built the prehistoric mounds found in Mexico and the United States, 422

Evans, The President has revoked the appointment of, as post trader at Fort Sill, 316

Evans, We were all acquainted with the manner by which, obtained his tradership, and the bonus he was paying, 316

Excelsior Colony, The, have deserted their locations, and are scattered all along the Republican, from Scandanavia to Lake Sibley, 251

Ex Governor Jo’s son is a fine fellow and well educated in our language, but has gone back to the blanket, 120

Express man, This party brought back three scalps, one of which was that of the, killed and horribly mutilated between Dodge and Larned, just before Gen. Sheridan left the former fort, 242


Extra scout—a secret agent, In order to make the work of this Patrol more effective, and to avoid any mistakes caused by false information, it was deemed best by your Excellency to place on the front an, a man who at all times would, by his vigilance and familiarity with the country, together with his knowledge of the different tribes in the Territory, be able to give sufficient warning to the Patrol and this department, Such a person was selected by appointing Capt. C. M. Scott, of Arkansas City, whose services cannot be too highly praised nor too much valued, I herewith submit his report, a careful perusal of which will allow constant attention to duty and valuable service rendered, 43

 

 

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Fall Creek, crossing, one half mile south of the town, 399

Fall River, but over on Verdigris we soon came to sandstone, which continues until we come about, and from there to Elk River we see limestone, 126

Fall River, from thence to Fredonia, near, the county seat of Wilson County, is handsomely located near a mound on nice, rolling prairie, 125

False Bottom, Black Hills, is the present post office address of Ira E. Moore, 379

Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union, Movements sprang up: “Greenback Party,” “National Labor Congress,” “National Reform Party,” “Union Labor Party,” “Order of