With Sully Into the Sioux LandA.C. McClurg & Company, 1910 - 407 ページ |
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ahead Al's Annie answered army Arrow Rock asked bank battle began Belle Peoria Bill Cotton boat boys Brigade Briscoe brother bullets bushwhacker camp Captain Feilner Captain Lamont Captain Miner carbines Chippewa Falls Colonel column command Confederate Confederate States army Coyotes creek cried Dakota Cavalry deck hand dians exclaimed face father feet fight fire flank followed Fort Rice Fort Ridgely Fort Sully Fort Union front galloped glance guerilla guns head heard Heart River hills horses Indians Island City killed Knife River Lieutenant Dale looked Louis miles Minnesota Missouri mother musket officers prairie ravine replied revolver Ridgely riding rifle river rode savage scout seemed Sergeant shot shouted Sibley Sioux soldiers soon sprang steamboat steamer Sully Sully's Tahkahokuty Te-o-kun-ko Tommy troops turned wagon wagon train Wallace Wallace Smith warriors Yanktonais yawl Yeager Yellowstone
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234 ページ - It passes successively from the walk to the trot, from the trot to the gallop, and from the gallop to the charge. The three other platoons break in their turn, when the preceding one has halted.
168 ページ - Report to the General that we are in sight of the Indians and without I have a positive order to return I purpose to take them." We pushed on at gallop, for we could see the Indians on a hill a short distance ahead in a patch of mullen stalks,"" the first and only ones I have seen in Dakota, and in the condition of the atmosphere we mistook the stalks for Indians, several hundred in number, but nothing...
99 ページ - It is with the deepest regret that I am obliged to inform you that thus far our efforts to recover your young son from his Indian captors have been unsuccessful.
88 ページ - Governor and the first Governor of the State after its admission to the Union.
310 ページ - City struck a snag a couple of miles below the mouth of the Yellowstone on the evening we were entering.
185 ページ - what on earth are you doing here? I had no idea you were within a thousand miles.
257 ページ - It would have been the most natural thing in the world for an Indian to do, for they seldom show mercy, especially in the heat of battle.
313 ページ - I can use my right arm perfectly and feel as well as I ever did in my life, I...