A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express; or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times . coach and the telegraphwire, and the railroad was thus en-abled to be built under the protectionthus afforded. It was in these timesthat Red Cloud, then Red Emperorof the American plains, became aterror, his very name creating con-fusion when his proximity was heardof, and who made such audaciousforays as to attack, capture, andmassacre the soldiers at Fort Kearney. Then came the period when, withthe aid of the telegraph and the rail-road, rapidity of i
A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express; or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times . coach and the telegraphwire, and the railroad was thus en-abled to be built under the protectionthus afforded. It was in these timesthat Red Cloud, then Red Emperorof the American plains, became aterror, his very name creating con-fusion when his proximity was heardof, and who made such audaciousforays as to attack, capture, andmassacre the soldiers at Fort Kearney. Then came the period when, withthe aid of the telegraph and the rail-road, rapidity of information andfacility of transportation enabled thetroops to beat back the savagehordes and drive them northward,culminating in the campaign of 76,giving the bloody chapter of Custersannihilation with his entire command,but resulting in a very perceptible 84 BLAZING THE WESTWARD WAY breaking up of the red mans some desultory forays this con-tinued to fill the atmosphere withdanger to the encroaching settle- ments until 1890 when it was destinedto be fought out in the expiring effortof the despairing foe, The Ghost-Dance CHAPTER XIVTHE BEGINNING OF THE END
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