A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express; or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times . Neck,after his red and white adopters onthe day of the fight. That night there came up a terribleblizzard during which Forsythe suc-ceeded in returning to the agencywith his dead and wounded. Itmight here be remarked that threedays afterward, under the pile ofdead, was found two little Indianfemale papooses, one frozen so it diedthat night, and the other other is now a young lady in thefamily of Gen. Colby of Nebraska. The next day there wa
A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express; or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times . Neck,after his red and white adopters onthe day of the fight. That night there came up a terribleblizzard during which Forsythe suc-ceeded in returning to the agencywith his dead and wounded. Itmight here be remarked that threedays afterward, under the pile ofdead, was found two little Indianfemale papooses, one frozen so it diedthat night, and the other other is now a young lady in thefamily of Gen. Colby of Nebraska. The next day there was a veryhea\y skirmish around the agency onwhat is called The Mission, in whichthe Indians showed considerable strat-egy and came near making anothersurprise. The arrival at an oppor-tune moment of Gen. FightingGuy Henrys cavalry, after covering125 miles in twenty-four hours,turned the tide of events, and theIndians soon found themselves sur-rounded in a cordon of sixteen milesby about 3500 soldiers with gatlingguns accompanying them, under thecommand of the flower of the oldIndian fighters of experience, and THE BEGINNING OF THE END 95. Hostile Camp the Indians, though outnumberingthe whites, became amenable tosuggestions from their friends underthe circumstances. Many of the conservative andneutral Indians, like Man-Afraid-Of-His-Horses, Rocky Bear, AmericanHorse, Major MacGillicudy (one oftheir former celebrated agents), Char-ley Allen, Father Juet, and MajorJohn M. Burke had spent weeks ofhardship and toil in efforts to pacifyand bring to reason the excited redskins. Major Burke had come fromAlsace-Lorraine (Europe) with and seventy-five traveled Indi-ans for the purpose of helping to stemthe tide in a condition of affairs thatthreatened to give excuse for theeventual annihilation of the recalci-trant Sioux. Peace meeting of Gen, Lee. MajorBurke, and Indian Leaders Red Cloud, He Dog, and others hadbeen rushed out to the hostilecamp by the war party during theattack
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