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Rickers (search for this): chapter 25
m Medicine Lodge, in Barber county, Kansas, and are members of Captain Rickers' troop of horse. Have you seen any buffalo? ask the Osageout, chatting and smiling, but with rifles ready for a sign. When Rickers sees that no more bucks are coming in, a word is given, a line is s to Medicine Lodge, a stockade on the Prairie, where he finds Captain Rickers and sixty border men, acting as militia under a regular commisfrom Governor Osborn. Who killed the four Osages? repeats Captain Rickers, in high contempt, we killed the Osages; and we mean to kill the vermin whenever we catch them in our State. Rickers refuses to give the Indian Agent details of the fray. The captured ponies are at Me in Topeka, but the governor will not interfere with his militia. Rickers, he says, is captain of a company of State militia, properly enroanswers, the date of this commission. Is it not the fact that Captain Rickers' commission is dated ten days after the massacre near Medicine
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his neighbour's ox as readily as he slings a buffalo calf. White men shoot game in sport, on which bucks and braves go out and kill their enemy's cows. They say it is only sport. When a more deadly raid is meant, they call the Light Horse, the Mourning Band, or some such Indian league, and riding to the settled parts, select a lonely ranch, surround the pales, rush on the doors, scalp every living male, eat up the food, set fire to the farms, and carry 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 the genius of their league, are using the kni
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