The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-08-12
STORY OF BOHEMIAN
TRAIL is WRITTEN
NEW HISTORICAL WORK ON THE
EARLY INDIAN WARS TO BE
PUBLISHED SOON
Gives Graphic Account of Wagon
Box and bayfield, Fights; Tells
Story of Forts Phil KeaIney and
@. f. Smith, Around Which Bloody
Battles Were Fought.

and its authors are Grace Raymond
: Hebard, professor of political eco
nomy at the University of Wyoming;
and E. A. Brinistool, of Los Angeles,
author of Trail Dust of a Maverick.
The Bozeman Trail gives accurate
ly compiled historical accounts of
the blazing of the overland routes
into the northwest, and particularly
the story of the bitter warfare for
two years, from 1866 to 1868, along
the Montana boundary line that fol
lowed the governments efforts to
open and keep clear a road for gold
seekers north from the Oregon trail
to the Montana goldfields through
the Powder river country.
The story of the BoZeman Trail is
one of the most thrilling and inter
esting in all the annals of Indian
warfare in the west. The trail led
through the choicest hunting grounds
of the Sioux and Cheyennes, who
united under Red Cloud. The route
was red with the blood of both In
dian and white disputers of the ter
ritory, and of emigrants who sought
passage through the forbidden ter
ritory.
From the day when Col. Henry B.
Darlington met Red Cloud at the
Fort Laramie peace conference, in
June, 1866, where the great Sioux
leader refused all o%vertures of peace
as long as his hunting country was
invaded by the whites, and openly de-
fled the United States troops by go
ing Immediately on the warpath, to
the fall of 1868, when the govern
ment abandoned the forts and the
Powder river country, the Bozeman
Trail swarmed with Red Clouds war
riors. The rebuilding of Fort Reno
and the erection of Forts Phil Kear-
ney and G. f. Smith, at w~idely-sep-
arated points along the trail, threw
the savages into ungovernable rage.
Skirmishes and fights were of almost
daily occurrence. Thrilling
tiers with the red defenders of the
Powder river country, and all along
the Sweetwater and North Platte
rivers, to the south, were numerous
and bloody.
In this history of the northwest's
thrilling days in the sixties, the au-
thors present for the first time, many
interesting facts regarding those
frontier days, and of life at the three
forts along the Bozeman Trail. Much
new material is given from actual
participants in the events related.
The chapters on the Wagon Box
and Hayfield fights, the former oc-
curing near Fort Phil Kearney, and
the latter near Fort G.. F. Smith are
probably the most spectacular and
extraordinary engagements between
white men and Indians ever fought
This is entirely new and original ma
terial, from authentic and reliable !
The stories are from men
now living who participated in those
fights. The Hayfield fight is a ia
booed topic in army circles, for rea-
sons explained in the narrative. 1t
is given from information furnished ]
by a civilian employe of the sutler at
Fort Smith, who was one of the Hay
field defenders.
The desperate fight at Platte
station, prepared from the
diary of Lieutenant William Y. Drew, l
Eleventh Kansas Cavalry, is a hith-
erto unpublished account of that dis
affair. In it Lieutenant Cas-
par Collins and more than twenty |
brave men met awful deaths at the
hands of the Indians.
OF special interest are the accounts T
Of Red Cloud, the great Sioux war
chief. New and important facts I
about this wonderful Indian general !
orator, never before published, !
ire presented from accounts furnish {
ID by James H. Cook, an intimate
.riend for 35 years of the noted war
ior. These disclose noble qualities
md splendid traits of character
which the average white man never
bought existed in the breast of this
Intutored savage of the plains. Red
loud was the greatest Indian of his L
ime-a keen, shrewd, daring, relent-
ess enemy in war-a staunch, I'M =
werving friend in peace.
The volumes present a large
mount of fresh and interesting in
In the life of this greatest of
lainsmen, "the Napoleon of the
.ockies," gathered from men who
ere personally acquainted with g
No man ever lived who SO 4
thoroughly knew the Rocky noun
in region as Jim Bridger. He was 4
ways consulted by the government 4
hen expeditions we're to be sent
1T or military maneuvers executed. 81
8 a guide he stood unrivaled. No y
ainsman understood so thoroughly n
70 wiles and stratagems of Indian
This material is of Unusual \
to those interested in the 4
scouts, guides and traflers. y
The illustrations are many. Few n
I'VE hitherto appeared In print. The Il
awnings Of Forts Laramie and Hal
OK, as well az those Of the stage 81
Id telegraph stations along the n
atte river end Oregon trail, are
ON originals made in 1853, by
lgler G. Moellman, Eleventh Ohio
lvalry, who was stationed at Platte
ridge. The drawing of Fort Phil
earney-a most valuable and I'M
ual picture-is by Bugler Antonio
coll, Second u. s. Cavalry, made
the fort In 1867. 1t Is the first
eyer printed OF the hated fort
the Little Piney." Many photo
apis we're taken by the authors
ID others during trips to the va
BUS points Of interest. The plans
u-xflJr II 20 Wn from