Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-12-02
Experience Of
IN INDIAN SCOUT
EDMUND GUERRIERE OF WATON-
60 TELLS SOME EVERYDAY
OCCURRENCES OF LIFE.
He HAD A CHARMED LIFE.
Was Shot at by u Whole Troop of Cav
airy Once, but Escaped un-
harmed.

Tohooke Klamtahaw, the old Usage
Indian of Tulsa who of late years has
turned into something OF wandercr,
Is back in Tulsa after an absence of
several months. He tells Of the visit
recently to Edmund Gasseau Chouteau
lie Guerriere, in a little brush tepee
on the banks Of the Canadian river
near Watonga, oklahoma.
Hundreds of incidents that would
make the most stirring plots for "yel-
low back novels came into Guerriore's
existence as commonplace things that
we're "all In the days work. accord
ing to the story told by Klamtahaw
The son Of French father and a
full-blood Cheyenne indian mother,
he was aligned, first with one side and
then with the other in the countless
struggles between the whites and the
Indians for supremacy in the great
west. lie "whacked bulls" along the
desolate reaches of the Santa Fe trail
when he was little more than a boy,
lie rode forays with such famous war.
rors as Custer Hancock. Sheridan
and Carr.
Saw "Palcfacc" Scalpcd.
More than once he saw scalps Of
the "palefaces' gathered as trophies
Of wal or saw bands of hostile and de-
fiant indians run down and shot to
death by United States troops. Many
a time he escaped capture, with its
certain consequences Of terrible tor
ture and death, In the internecine
wars Of the Indian tribes. A whole
troop of cavalry shot at him once and
he fled unharmed, later eluding the
soldiers completely. Another time,
while hunting alone, he was saved, he
says by vision or miraculous mirage.
lie Guerriers, or Guerrier, as he
now is known, was born In Chey-
eEne camp on the Smoky Hill river, in
1910. He father, William Guerriere,
was post sutler at Fort Laramie, and
an Indian trader with Set Ward,
under the firm name of Ward a. Guer-
rier.
Edmund Guerrler's mother, Tah-
tah- tols-neh, died Of cholera in 1872,
and he was sent, two years later to
the Catholic mission school, which is
now st. Mary's college, in Kansas. In
1856 he went to st. Louis university.
The deathe Of his father, a year later,
caused the boy to be taken to the
home Of his guardian. Henry f. May
er, who lived on farm near Collins
vile, III.
seeks LiVlihood On Plains.
When Guerrier was 21 years old,
Mayer gave him $1,000 remaining
from his fathers estate, and told him
to Ego and see the world The plains
called him and he went west, reaching
Leavenworth, Kan, by steamboat in
1862, and Immediately taking "A job
with a bull train headed over the San
ta re trail for Fort Union, n. NJ
For the next two years Guerrier led
rowing life, but In 1864, when the wars
between the Indians and the govern
ment were at their height, we find
him encamped with a part OF the
Cheyenne tribe, on Sand creek, not far
from Denver. There, with Guerrier as
one Of the principal figures, the Sand
Creek massacre took place
1T seems Incredible that we were
not killed" said Guerrier, but as a
matter of fact we were not touched, al
though bullets actually ralned all
around u.s. / went through seven
years of border warfare unmarked By
a bullet Sometimes | think / must
have borne a charmed life.
Saved General Hancock's Life.
Guerrier once saved the life Of Gen.
eral Hancock-during conference |
between the Indians and the generals
staff. Chiefs Bull Bear, Tall Bear
and Roman Nose represented the In !
dlans at this conference, and while II |
was In progress Guerrier stood at Cen
eral Hancock's side. While the men |
were talking Bull Bear kept pushing |
Guerrier away, but each time he did /
So General Hancock caught him by /
the sleeve and pulled him back again. |
a year later. when peace had been re-
stored. the Indians told Guerrler that /
they had decided to make final de.
mand upon General Hancock and /
shoot him down II 1t were refused.
Full Bear was trying to get Guerrler
out OF the reach Of harm. II devel-
oped that other Indians In the'crowd
had dlssuaded Roman Nose from the
attack.
one Of the sternest discipllnarians
who led troops in the west was Gene
raj George A. Custer, who perished
when his entire command was over
whelmed by Indians In the famous