Dodge City, the cowboy capital, and the great Southwest in the days of the wild Indian, the buffalo, the cowboy, dance halls, gambling halls and bad men . rs very sincerely, Margaret Perkins. 10. The Chivington fight (see Chapter III, page 59)occurred in the autumn of 1864. In the summer of thatyear a band of Cheyenne Indians, under the control ofBlack Kettle and White Antelope, about four hundredand fifty in all, together with about fifty Arapahoes,under Left Hand, known to be friendly Indians, cameto the vicinity of Fort Lyon, Colorado, in compliancewith the order of Governor Evans, acting s
Dodge City, the cowboy capital, and the great Southwest in the days of the wild Indian, the buffalo, the cowboy, dance halls, gambling halls and bad men . rs very sincerely, Margaret Perkins. 10. The Chivington fight (see Chapter III, page 59)occurred in the autumn of 1864. In the summer of thatyear a band of Cheyenne Indians, under the control ofBlack Kettle and White Antelope, about four hundredand fifty in all, together with about fifty Arapahoes,under Left Hand, known to be friendly Indians, cameto the vicinity of Fort Lyon, Colorado, in compliancewith the order of Governor Evans, acting superintendentof Indian affairs. This was done with the understandingthat they were to be protected from the soldiers whowere to take the field against hostiles. They remainedin this camp for some time, giving up their arms, anddepending upon rations for their food. Their weaponswere then restored to them by Major Scott J. Anthony,who had in the meantime superseded Major E. W. Wyn-koop in the command of that military district, and theywere told to go into camp on Sand Creek, aboui thirty-five miles from Fort Lyon. This they did, relying on —340—. the hunt for food, and maintaining friendly relations withthe whites. On the morning of November 29th, aboutdaybreak, they were surprised by United States troops,under Colonel J. M. Chivington, the commander of thatdistrict. An indiscriminate slaughter of men, women,and children followed. The three principal chiefs werekilled. Many of the Indians escaped on horseback and onfoot, though followed by the mounted soldiers. Of thefive hundred in camp, about one hundred and fifty weresupposed to have been killed, two-thirds being womenand children. (See U. S. Spec. Com. on Indian tribes. Re-port 1867, B. F. Wade, chairman; Official Records Warof the Rebellion, vol. 41, pt. i, page 948.) Rev. John M. Chivington came to Denver in May,i860, having been assigned, the previous March, to theRocky Mountain district, by the Kansas and Nebraskacon
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