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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Our Indian Allies. (search)
f S. C., of the Corps of Engineers develops the fact that it abounds in copper, lead iron, coal, and salt. The Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, and Chickasaws, are slave owners. The chief products of their soil are cotton, tobacco, wheat' , oats, and barley, and they own vast herds of , and sleep. Gen. Pike has recently concluded treaties with the Apaches, Kiowa, and Camanche, and will soon effect an alliance with the Arapahoe, Chey, and . Our Camanche and Kioway sides now hold the main Smoky Hill route to the Pike's Peak gold region, and all the routes from the Upper Missouri to New Mexico. They have destroyed the vast commerce of the Western plains which has employed twenty millions of Yankee capital. These Indians are the privateer of the great prairie stretching away between the river to the Rocky mountains. The importance of retaining the alliance with Indians demits of no question, otherwise we require an army of 30,000 men in Northern South and Western Louisiana.