Three Years on the Plains: Observations of Indians, 1867-1870Tuttle, Edmund B. (Edmund Bostwick)
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Three Years on the Plains: Observations of Indians, 1867-1870
Tuttle, Edmund B. (Edmund Bostwick)
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); Indians of North America; Indians of North America -- Great Plains
The following letter tells its own story. Moreover, it is a truthful
narrative, and shows to the young that a Christian man is a bold man to
meet danger, knowing that God helps us, while we use all proper means
of safety to help ourselves.
PITTSBURG, May 30th, 1870.
REV. E. B. TUTTLE, Cheyenne, Wyoming Ter.
REV. AND DEAR SIR,--I will try to give you a brief account of my
adventure with the Indians, in answer to your request. It was on
the 1st day of June, 1867, the same year that the Right Reverend
Bishop Tuttle went out to his jurisdiction (whom I met a few days
after the adventure at the North Platte Station). The scene of the
adventure was Fairview Station, which was a deserted ranch about
ten miles east of "Fort Wicked," or Godfrey's ranch. The station
house had been burned, and the high adobe walls with an open front
entrance, facing the road, were left standing. About half-past two
P.M. we stopped at "Godfrey's" for a change of horses and
refreshments. I was the only passenger, and as we started on, the
company consisted of the driver, myself inside the coach, and two
horsemen, "stock leaders" (employed by the stage company to transfer
stock from one point to another), four in all. Unsuspectingly, we
went straight into the Indian's trap. It was about four P.M. I sat
on the front seat with my back to the driver, the windows being
down. The first thing that caught my attention was the discharge of
a number of rifles, some of the balls crashing through the sides of
the coach.
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