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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 25: the Red war. (search)
White men are contending for the soil. Bad blood is always flowing on the frontier line which separates the White State of Kansas from the Red Territory of Cheyennes and Osages. The savages are rich in ponies, and the settlers are accused of stecarry off the women to their camps. In May last year a son of Little Robe, a Cheyenne chief, came over the border into Kansas with his band. His herds, he said, had been driven by White thieves, and in revenge, he stole a herd of cattle from the nearest run. Some cavalry, then patrolling on the Kansas line, gave chase, came up with the marauders, mauled the chief, and recovered the stolen stock. Unable to meet the Whites in open field, the Cheyennes, in accordance with their custom and their wings, and follow distant trails. No buffaloes are found, the herds appearing to have crossed the frontier line into Kansas. One of these bands of Osages, numbering nineteen hunters, ten squaws, and about eighty ponies, are encamped near the
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 28: savage slavery. (search)
were fading fast, the Negroes were increasing fast. These Negroes were a danger and a curse to each of the five Red nations. A sentiment was growing up on every side, which the Redskins were unable to repulse by tomahawk and scalping-knife. Kansas, their immediate neighbour on the north, was Free Soil. The settlements in their rear were rising into Free States. From time to time Free Soilers came into their hunting-grounds, sniffing the air, glancing at the slaves, and threatening the sa and Whisky filled his camp; and when the chief withdrew to Bushey Creek, near Verdigris River, he was followed by a cloud of warriors yelling for free trade in slaves and whisky, and was driven to fall back for safety on the White settlements of Kansas. Article ninety-seven of the treaty of alliance signed by Jack Ross on behalf of the Cherokee nation, and by Albert Pike on behalf of the Confederate States, contains this clause: It is hereby declared and agreed that the Institution of S