The Heart of Everything That Is, page 42
Among these were Young-Man: Ambrose, p. 136.
His ethereal quality: Bray, Crazy Horse, p. 72.
“hardly every looked straight”: Ibid.
“If white men come”: Matthiessen, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, p. 115.
In her classic book: Johnson, The Bloody Bozeman, pp. 3–4.
“He was a farmer”: Ibid.
“We thought it an impossibility”: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 15.
“and the majority actually made”: M. Carrington, Absaraka, p. 37.
He charmed the officers’ wives: Smith, Give Me Eighty Men, p. 25.
But when Sherman met with Carrington: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 24.
If Sherman felt: Smith, p. 25.
Chapter Twenty-Four: Colonel Carrington’s Circus
Someone dubbed the long train: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 25.
It passed cool, clear streams: M. Carrington, Absaraka, p. 71.
“We had no occasion”: Bisbee, Through Four American Wars, p. 162.
“Fighting men in that country”: Indian Hostilities, Senate Executive Document No. 33, pp. 3–4.
“in assorted sizes”: Bisbee, p. 166.
The latter two: Larson, Red Cloud, p. 90.
“In two moons the command”: Indian Hostilities, p. 18.
The threat was followed: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 43.
“The Great Father sends us presents”: Brown, The American West, p. 85.
Carrington tried to answer: Monnett, Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed, p. 27.
Later that day the commanding officer: F. Carrington, My Army Life, pp. 124–25.
Red Cloud, he said: Ibid.
Red Cloud, observed Margaret Carrington: M. Carrington, Absaraka, p. 79.
Chapter Twenty-Five: Here Be Monsters
“a disgusting farce”: Special Commission Investigating the Fort Philip Kearny Massacre, July 29, 1867.
Satisfactory treaty concluded: Ambrose, Crazy Horse and Custer, p. 229.
“They follow ye always”: M. Carrington, Absaraka, p. 83.
When Carrington asked Mills: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 50.
“was lumbering around”: Ambrose, p. 291.
A blinding summer hailstorm: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 57.
“We’ll never see an Indian”: M. Carrington, p. 95.
“constant separation and scattering”: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 60.
The words were barely: Ibid., p. 58.
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Perfect Fort
“was like the quick turn”: M. Carrington, Absaraka, p. 26.
“At last we had the prospect”: Ibid., p. 67.
The Indians professed amity: Bisbee, Through Four American Wars, p. 168.
“The White Man lies”: Ibid.
Chapter Twenty-Seven: “Mercifully Kill All the Wounded”
One private noted in his journal: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 78.
His eight infantry companies: Fort Phil Kearny plaque, Wyoming Historical Society.
“He said that he had a presentiment”: F. Carrington, My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearny Massacre, p. 74.
“Our condition was now becoming”: Hebard and Brininstool, The Bozeman Trail, p. 91.
“I am a friend”: F. Carrington, p. 80.
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Roughing It
“Character of Indian affairs hostile”: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 33, pp. 12–13.
“I must do all this”: Ibid.
“a strategic chief”: Hebard and Brininstool, The Bozeman Trail, p. 121.
August 1866 was the high point: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 145.
“breezy in winter”: Fort Phil Kearny plaque, Wyoming Historical Society.
As the historian Shannon Smith notes: Smith, Give Me Eighty Men, p. 42.
seemed “to have been ideally suited”: Ibid.
“commanding presence”: Ibid.
The eldest of seven children: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 151.
“most precious and rare”: Fort Phil Kearny plaque.
Doughnuts, gingerbread: Ibid.
Chapter Twenty-Nine: A Thin Blue Line
“vile jokes and curses”: F. Carrington, My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearny Massacre, p. 121.
“Hardly three minutes”: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 122.
If in fact the raids were led: Papers of William T. Sherman.
“Tell the rascals”: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 33.
“We must try to distinguish”: Fort Phil Kearny plaque, Wyoming Historical Society.
The post’s tiny guardhouse: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 127.
“brief tongue lashing”: F. Carrington, p. 121.
“constantly scanning”: Ibid.
Chapter Thirty: Fire in the Belly
He did it so often: Guthrie, “The Fetterman Massacre,” p. 717.
He was finally relieved: Monnett, Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed, p. 117.
His actions not only allowed: U.S. War Department, Official Records, Ser. 1, Vol. 98, Part 1, pp. 495–507.
The two Mrs. Grummonds: Smith, Give Me Eighty Men, p. 68.
“had not died brave”: Bisbee, Through Four American Wars, p. 170.
“My whole being seemed”: F. Carrington, My Army Life, p. 154.
Crazy Horse had never shown interest: Bray, Crazy Horse, p. 72.
Together they had hauled nearly: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 129.
According to Army manifests: Ibid., p. 137.
“restoring invalids”: Ibid.
“to secure personal knowledge”: M. Carrington, Absaraka, p. 172.
Chapter Thirty-One: High Plains Drifters
Quick with his Navy Colt: Gail Schontzler, Bozeman Daily Chronicle, January 23, 2011.
On reaching the Kansas line: Ibid.
Actually, the cagey Story: Brown and Schmidt, Trail Driving Days, p. 118.
But the remuda left: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 141.
Part V: The Massacre
Chapter Thirty-Two: Fetterman
“looked for with glad anticipation”: M. Carrington, Absaraka, p. 245.
“I hope to be yet able”: Monnett, Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed, p. 103.
“We are afflicted”: 1867 hearings, U.S. Senate, Bisbee testimony, p. 4.
Yet despite his and the others’ “disgust”: Ibid., Arnold testimony, p. 5.
“the feeling was not harmonious”: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 33.
Even relatively mundane annoyances: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 154.
“You are hereby instructed”: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 33.
Chapter Thirty-Three: Dress Rehearsal
“or return to the post”: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 33.
Carrington sputtered: 1867 hearings, U.S. Senate, Wands testimony.
a “coward or a fool”: Ibid., Bisbee testimony, p. 79.
He could hear a repulsive click: Hebard and Brininstool, The Bozeman Trail, p. 99.
Finally, he jammed the sword: F. Carrington, My Army Life, p. 134.
“I cannot account”: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 13, pp. 37–38.
“This Indian War has become”: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 166.
“deepened from that hour”: F. Carrington, p. 134.
Chapter Thirty-Four: Soldiers in Both Hands
“Your men who fought”: Vestal, Jim Bridger, p. 270.
It was filling rapidly: Hebard and Brininstool, The Bozeman Trail, p. 99.
“buffalo-lined hip boots”: Bisbee, Through Four American Wars, p. 176.
“Your brother was much esteemed”: Old Travois Trails 3, no. 3 (1942), 65.
“heed the lessons”: F. Carrington, My Army Life, p. 135.
On his way out the door: Vestal, Jim Bridger, p. 273.
When a hermaphrodite: Hyde, Red Cloud’s Folk, p. 147.
The war chief waved his arm: Brown, “Red Cloud of the Sioux,” p. 91.
When asked how many: Hyde, p. 147.
Chapter Thirty-Five: The Half-Man’s Omen
From here, with his captured: Brown, “Red Cloud of the Sioux,” p. 90.
He acquiesced: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 33.
“and never leave him”: F. Carrington, My Army Life, p. 143.
To this exchange: Wands testimony, 1867 hearings, U.S. Senate, p. 8.
“and was moving wisely”: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 33.
“perfect vantage ground”: Ibid.
“entertaining no further thought”: Henry Carrington’s testimony, in Monnett, Wild West Magazine (October 2010).
The wispy brave: Bray, Crazy Horse, p. 96.
He turned his back: Christopher Morton interview.
Chapter Thirty-Six: Broken Arrows
“continuous and rapid”: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 12.
“the largest”: Arnold testimony, 1867 hearings, U.S. Senate.
It remains on display: Smith, Give Me Eighty Men, p. 119.
The official Army report: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 33.
Chapter Thirty-Seven: “Like Hogs Brought to Market”
One of the civilians: J. B. Weston testimony, 1867 hearings, U.S. Senate, p. 5.
“There’s the men down there”: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 12.
“The silence”: Ibid., p. 186.
“Captain Ten Eyck says”: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 33, p. 46.
“The Captain is afraid”: Ibid.
Perhaps he also anticipated: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 190.
“You could have saved”: Ibid., p. 185.
He was the only trooper: Horton testimony, 1867 hearings, U.S. Senate, p. 4.
“We brought in about fifty”: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 13, p. 15.
“horrible and sickening”: F. Carrington, My Army Life, p. 149.
“bright, piercing eyes”: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 192.
“I will go if it costs”: F. Carrington, p. 149.
Then he turned and left: Ibid.
Throughout all this: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 191.
Without immediate reinforcements: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 33, pp. 49–50.
I send a copy of dispatch: Ibid.
“Good,” he said: Ostrander, An Army Boy, p. 194.
Chapter Thirty-Eight: Fear and Mourning
“If in my absence”: F. Carrington, My Army Life, p. 151.
“It was,” wrote a witness: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 197.
“Some had crosses cut”: Guthrie, “The Fetterman Massacre,” p. 717.
Someone remarked that such: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 199.
A few hundred yards: Indian Hostilities, Executive Document No. 13, p. 65.
Piles of spent Henry rifle cartridges: Bray, Crazy Horse, p. 101.
Outside the defensive circle: Ibid.
“all the honor”: Rocky Bear 1902 statement, Addison Sheldon Papers, Nebraska State Historical Society.
“horrid massacre”: Murray, The Bozeman Trail, pp. 45–46.
Epilogue
“the completeness of the massacre”: Momett, Where a Hundred Soldiers Died, p. 96.
“We must act”: Report of the Secretary of War to the Senate, Document No. 15.
“operations within my command”: National Archives and Records Administration, Papers Accompanying the Report to General-in-Chief, p. 3.
“passed over 455 miles”: Ibid.
“I know how to fight”: Wyoming Historical Society interpretive sign at Wagon Box Fight site.
“One general ominously informed”: Larson, Red Cloud, p. 115.
Major General Christopher C. Auger: Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, p. 224.
“unprecedented in the history”: Yenne, Sitting Bull, p. 50.
“As a consequence”: Paul, Autobiography of Red Cloud, p. 7.
“No one who listened”: New York Times, June 17, 1868.
“Now we are melting like snow”: Larson, p. 132.
“Red Cloud saw too much”: Ibid.
“I shall not go to war”: Ibid., p. 150.
“God made this earth”: Eli Ricker Collection.
“Shadows are long and dark”: Red Cloud Heritage Center.
“When Red Cloud fought”: New York Times, December 11, 1909.
“From the perspective”: Moten, Between War and Peace, p. 150.
“And yet the general”: Ibid., p. 151.
“My only answer”: Bisbee, Through Four American Wars, p. 166.
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