The great plains; the romance of western American exploration, warfare, and settlement, 1527-1870 . rmatch, however, and were driven back after a threehours battle on the banks of the Kansas River. Inthe Comanche country it was always war, and thistribe quarrelled openly with all others who enteredinto peace treaties with the whites. A War with the Sioux Farther north, for the purpose of protecting em-igration along the Oregon Trail, a small militaryforce, composed of a single company reduced totwenty-five effective men, was stationed at Fort Lar-amie. About them were Sioux, Arapahoes, andChey
The great plains; the romance of western American exploration, warfare, and settlement, 1527-1870 . rmatch, however, and were driven back after a threehours battle on the banks of the Kansas River. Inthe Comanche country it was always war, and thistribe quarrelled openly with all others who enteredinto peace treaties with the whites. A War with the Sioux Farther north, for the purpose of protecting em-igration along the Oregon Trail, a small militaryforce, composed of a single company reduced totwenty-five effective men, was stationed at Fort Lar-amie. About them were Sioux, Arapahoes, andCheyennes, all far from friendly, numbering 5,500souls, of whom at least half were warriors. Thor-oughly despising so small an armed force of whites,these Indians, visiting the fort, became insolent,and had to be forcibly expelled beyond the limitsof the post. This resulted in an encounter, in whichshots were exchanged and four of the savages following spring Lieutenant Grattan, a youngofficer lately from West Point, accompanied bytwenty-eight men, was sent to the camp of a band of [228]. SCENES CHARACTERISTIC OF INDIAN ATTACK AND THE DE-FENCE OF THE SETTLERS THE LAST STAND — EMIGRANTS REPELLING AN ATTACK — DEFENDING THEWAGON TRAIN THE ARMY ON THE PLAINS Sioux with orders to make an arrest. Meeting withsome resistance, the squad fired a volley, and imme-diately the Indians were upon them. Only one sol-dier escaped, in dying condition, and regained thefort. This was the beginning of a long and costly warwith the Sioux nation. Measures were at once takenby the War Department to punish fitly the murder-ers of Grattan and his men, but owing to the late-ness of the season little was accomplished that yearexcept the strengthening of the garrison at Laramieby three companies of the Sixth Infantry, underMajor Hoffman, who assumed command. In theSpring of 1856 other troops arrived, but, there be-ing no cavalry, little could be accomplished, otherthan defensive guard. The Siou
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