The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-10-22
INCIDENTS OF INDIAN WARFARE.
Clusters Last Fight and the Fight of the
'Dobe Walls.

II was Charging Hawk. former Sioux
scout, who first told of an unexplained
| incident of the Custer fight. His father
| had been in the fight, and from him as
we'll as from many Others Charging
Hawk had heard the praise. He was q
| long haired man who fought so well that
he won both the admiration and fear OF
his Indian opponents. The father OF
ond band to attack. The chief of the
tribe, riding out of the melee to get a
fresh horse shouted to the oneoming
warriors:
Five horses to the man who kills
Long Hair"
Wounded again and again, the white
man kept on fighting until he fell. and
the Indians missed not single one of
his brave acts. 1t was never known who
killed him. No record has been found
of him among the whites, and no one
knows his name. but the fame of his ex-
PLOTS has been handed down as herit-
age from father to son among his foes.
Another Indian echo of that battle is
of big black dog which escaped after
the fight. Just as the last white man
went down. The Indians first saw the
animal running around among the horses
with bundle of papers tied to its COL
lar. Finally it took off north. They gave
chase but could neither catch nor kill it.
For 20 miles they chased it, and then lost
track. What was on those papers Z
We're they government documents or the
last letters of soldier to the folk back
home? IT remains one of the unsolved
mysteries of the west.
One of the shortest. hardest fights of
the frontier was that known as the
'Dobe Walls fight between the Indians
and the buffalo hunters north of the
Panhandle. No one knows when the
'Dobe Walls were built, but an interest
ing trader reaching the heart of the buff
falo land fixed them up as a trading
post. and there the hide hunters bought
their supplies.
The story Of the fight has been rctold
and rewritten many times. Medicine
men of the Chevennes and the Kiowas
had made war shirts which they said the
white mans bullets could not pierce.
Secure in this belief. 200 or 300 Indians
went over TO take the post. Singing.
they came at an easy lope at davbreak.
in two straight columns across the val
lev. II was sight not easy to forget
When they We're within 100 yards of the
place they threw off their robes and
blankets and charged down upon the
camp. Ordinarily. the trading post
boasted but two or. at the most. three
men. BY some chance 10 had gathered
there the nioht before To Law in their
supplies. Bllie Dixon, who was stand
ng in the DOORWAY when he saw the foes |
approach. emptied his Winchester into |
heir ranks. Two of the hunters, with |
wagons loaded ready to return TO their |
,wn camps, had slept outside. They ran
or the house, but could not make it. /
Dixon pulled one man through the door
vay. but he died just across the thresh-
lold. The men inside loaded and shot
md reloaded Thrills were plentiful.
In Indian boy. shot through the breast,
ode twice around the house, hammer
ne the walls with his six-shooter before
e fell from his horse. Three times the
indians charged. They fought all day,
While the Indian women and children on
bluff across the valley watched and
ang At shutdown they retreated, leav-
ne the ground strewn with lances, robes
nd buffalo hide shields. mute evidence
{ the medicine mems mistake.-A. r.
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