Shadow Riders: The Southern Plains Uprising, 1873 (The Plainsmen Series)
Language: English
Pages: 400
ISBN: 1250038723
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Chief White Bear and his Kiowa tribe would accept no more broken promises from the white man, so they left the Indian Territory reservations and crossed the Red River to the south. But heir last desperate attempt to regain the land of their ancestors meant dead white settlers, embattled soldiers, and shaken supply routes. general Sheridan's seasoned forced were now on the move to stem the Indian tide. And crack Army Sergeant Seamus Donegan would soon find himself at the center of a vast and bloody war...
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With an avalanche of sheer numbers. “MOUNT!” Carter did not have to repeat the order a second time. In a swirl of dust the troopers jammed boots into the hooded stirrups and rose to their saddles atop the frightened, snorting animals. “Spread yourselves out!” he commanded them. “Lay along the necks of your mounts—and keep firing the best you can. Keep the bastards back from us as we make a run for it! Don’t panic! KEEP FIRING!” When he brought his jaded mount around, closing the file just as.
Comanche melted into the rocks and fissures of the ridge, most dismounting to turn and fire back at the approaching yellowlegs. Bullets whined overhead, smacking into the rocks around the soldiers, kicking up spouts of dirt all around them. Unlike many of the plains tribes, among the Comanche were many marksmen. They had long had the white man’s weapons. Among Mackenzie’s Fourth Cavalry that winter day were more than his share of green recruits asked now to fire back into the jaws of those.
Officer’s smile beneath that droopy mustache. He liked Mackenzie. “I suppose you’re right, Colonel. Jacksboro is a might close to Fort Richardson, ain’t it now?” “And a man with your reputation can’t stay hidden for long, can he?” “So, what you figure to do now, since this outfit hasn’t got a single animal left for your cavalry to ride after the Kwahadi run off their ponies, and your horses to boot?” Mackenzie slung the dregs of his coffee into the grass at his feet. “We do have one left, a.
And the Tenth Negro Cavalry while Colonel Grierson was on temporary assignment back east, Davidson had quickly proved himself a martinet. Becoming a leader of men brought out the good in some, the very worst in others. So it had been for the new commander of Fort Sill, a man clearly not popular among his white officers, and especially among the Negro enlisted who served on this Indian frontier. To attempt a sure-handed control of his subordinate officers, Davidson had tried through transfer and.
With burning cinders. The government man’s horse was nowhere to be found. Reaching down, Seamus snagged the back of Graves’s collar and dragged him across the pebbled stream bottom then up the bank as Stillwell appeared out of the thick smoke. “He dead?” “I don’t think so,” Seamus replied breathlessly. “Just a good soaking.” “Where’s his animal?” Donegan shrugged. “Looks like I’ll have to carry him meself till we reach the wagon.” “They’re covering ground. I came back when Pierce told me he.