The splendid wayfaring : the story of the exploits and adventures of Jedediah Smith and his comrades, the Ashley-Henry men, discoverers and explorers of the great central route from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, 1822-1831 . The Leavenworth Campaign 97 wounded and two of the Sioux killed, while theRees had lost no more than thirty, some of whomwere women and children. The cost of the cam-paign to the United States Government was com-puted at $2, It was a Gilbert and Sullivan opera without therhymes and the music, Pilcher playing the role ofthe heavy villain. But perhaps Colone
The splendid wayfaring : the story of the exploits and adventures of Jedediah Smith and his comrades, the Ashley-Henry men, discoverers and explorers of the great central route from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, 1822-1831 . The Leavenworth Campaign 97 wounded and two of the Sioux killed, while theRees had lost no more than thirty, some of whomwere women and children. The cost of the cam-paign to the United States Government was com-puted at $2, It was a Gilbert and Sullivan opera without therhymes and the music, Pilcher playing the role ofthe heavy villain. But perhaps Colonel Leaven-worth should not be too greatly blamed for thefiasco. His conduct at the battles of Chippewaand Niagara Falls in the War of 1812 amplyproves that he had no lack of courage; and wehave George Catlins word for it that the mannerof his death, some years later, was noble. In hiscampaign against the Rees he was the victim ofcommercial rivalry. Nevertheless, one wonders what might havebeen the result if an officer like Crook had been incommand. Or Custer! Fancy Pilcher, or anyother man, playing at ducks and drakes with himwho humbled the Cheyenne on the Washita, anddied with all his men on the bluffs along the LittleBig Hor
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