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June 5th, 2012, 06:47 PM
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#1 | | Epicurean
Joined: Mar 2009 From: Texas Posts: 23,948 | Hard War on the Southern Plains
Hard War on the Southern Plains
By Noah Andre Trudeau
Originally published on HistoryNet.com. Published Online: June 05, 2012  Quote: |
THE AMBUSH HAD BEEN LAID with practiced precision by a large band of Kiowa warriors led by Satanta, Big Tree, Satank, and Eagle Heart. Hidden in a thicket of scrub oak on Texas's Salt Creek Prairie, they observed the slow approach of several wagons accompanied by 17 Buffalo Soldiers, the black troopers of the 10th U.S. Cavalry Regiment (Colored). Relatively easy pickings, but no one moved...
| Hard War on the Southern Plains
I found this article very informative & maybe you will too.
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June 7th, 2012, 02:00 PM
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#2 | | OBLIVIOUS
Joined: Dec 2011 From: Ohio Posts: 5,287 |
Interesting article. Thanks for posting.
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June 7th, 2012, 03:21 PM
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#3 | | Epicurean
Joined: Mar 2009 From: Texas Posts: 23,948 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Rongo  Interesting article. Thanks for posting. | Thanks for stopping by to glance at the thread. The threads that
get the most attention are the ones where people pointlessly fight
over an moot issue or they get to talk about themselves.
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June 7th, 2012, 03:52 PM
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#4 | | OBLIVIOUS
Joined: Dec 2011 From: Ohio Posts: 5,287 |
I've actually been plunking away at this one ever since you posted it. Like I said on another thread, I'm a slooooooooooooooooooooow reader!  | | | |
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June 7th, 2012, 04:10 PM
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#5 | | The Snub Nosed Truth
Joined: Dec 2010 From: Oregon coastal mountains Posts: 5,415 |
Grant was certainly correct about the railroad, and prophesied accurately. Sheridan too was astute about the buffalo herds, cruel and austere as it was.
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June 7th, 2012, 05:46 PM
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#6 | | Epicurean
Joined: Mar 2009 From: Texas Posts: 23,948 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Rongo I've actually been plunking away at this one ever since you posted it. Like I said on another thread, I'm a slooooooooooooooooooooow reader! | I can peck read as well, but I think I've caught a disease from my students:
a short attention span now.  | | | |
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June 7th, 2012, 05:49 PM
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#7 | | Epicurean
Joined: Mar 2009 From: Texas Posts: 23,948 | Quote:
Originally Posted by unclefred Grant was certainly correct about the railroad, and prophesied accurately. Sheridan too was astute about the buffalo herds, cruel and austere as it was. | Yes indeed on both.
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June 8th, 2012, 04:36 AM
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#8 | | Historian
Joined: Jul 2010 From: Oregon Posts: 1,115 | Quote:
Originally Posted by tjadams Thanks for stopping by to glance at the thread. The threads that
get the most attention are the ones where people pointlessly fight
over an moot issue or they get to talk about themselves. | Read it earlier and found it very interesting (more familiar with the Northern Plains war being from that area) but usually lurk if have nothing constructive to add to a thread.
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June 8th, 2012, 05:57 AM
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#9 | | Lecturer
Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 442 |
nice post. It shows just what idiot sherman was his idea was no different than the ethnic cleansing in the balkans or rawanda. I would have loved to see him go against Lee early in the civil war and watch him get his head handed to him. The Indians would have done just that if there had been more of them
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