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Frontier Regulars

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by Robert M. Utley


  Snake Creek (Mont.), 312

  Snake Indians. See Northern Paiute Indians

  Snake River (Ida.), 177, 178, 297, 302, 308, 322 passim

  Snyder, Capt. Simon, 274, 311–2

  Society of Friends. See Quakers Soldier Spring (Okla.). See Battles Solomon River (Kan.), 138, 139, 143, 144, 162 n37

  Sonora (Mexican State), 169, 344, 356 passim. See also Mexico Sonora River (Mex.), 388

  South (region), 10, 11, 14, 62, 64

  South Canadian River, 147, 149. See also Canadian River

  South Dakota (State), 135, 237, 403 passim

  South Pass (Wyo.), 241, 410

  South Platte River (Colo.-Neb.), 95, 122. See also Platte River; North Platte River

  Southern Cheyenne Indians, 4, 114 passim, 133, 137–8, 142 passim. See also Cheyenne Indians; Northern Cheyenne Indians; and Dog Soldiers

  Southern Pacific Railroad, 375, 379, 383

  Southern Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 190

  Southern Ute Agency (Colo.), 333

  Southwest (region), 2, 4, 5, 14, 76, 163, 356 passim, 369 passim; defense system, 167–71

  Spencer, Herbert, 65

  Spencer carbine, 70, 98, 105, 148

  Spotted Bear (Sioux), 245

  Spotted Eagle (Sioux), 284

  Spotted Elk (Cheyenne), 140 n16

  Spotted Tail (Sioux), 132, 135, 245–6, 272, 282–3, 412 n14; peace mission of, 279, 290; and reservation, 237–40

  Spotted Tail Agency (Neb.), 239–40, 272, 278, 279, 281–3

  Springfield Armory, Mass. See U.S. Armory

  Springfield shoulder arms, 69—70, 71, 72, 98, 123–5

  Staff (War Dept.), and Burnside Bill, 64; and commanding general, 28 passim; composition of, 11–2, 36 n9 Staked Plains (Tex.), 154–5, 164, 207, 400; operations of 1871–72 on, 211–2; Red River War on, 221–33

  Standing Elk (Sioux), 99

  Standing Rock Agency (N.D.), 237–40, 253, 272, 288, 404

  Stanley, Gen. David S., 74, 240, 242–3, 400, 411 n7

  Stanley’s Stockade (Mont.), 252

  Stanton, Sec. War Edwin M., 10, 113, 126 n8, 131

  Starr carbine, 103

  Steamboat Frank (Modoc), 205

  Steele, Gen. Frederick, 14, 37 n14, 175

  Steens Mountain (Oreg.), 324, 325

  Steins Peak Range (Ariz.-N.M.). See Peloncillo Mountains

  Sterling, Albert D., 375, 376

  Sternberg, Lt. Sigismund, 124

  Stikine Indians, 182–3

  Stikine River (Alaska), 182

  Stinking Water River (Wyo.), 310, 39

  Stone Calf (Cheyenne), 229

  Stoneman, Gen. George, 192–3

  Storm (Arapaho), 140 n16

  Strategy of Indian warfare, 44–58, 144–5, 158–9, 251–2.

  Stumbling Bear (Kiowa), 140 n16, 210

  Sturgis, Col. Samuel D., 272, 280, 310–1, 319, 329

  Subsistence Department, 12, 15, 32, 189

  Sullivant Hills (Wyo.), 104, 105

  Sully, Gen. Alfred, 113–4, 120, 121, 126 n12, 130, 150, 236

  Summer clothing, 76–7

  Summerhayes, Capt. John W., 20

  Summerhayes, Martha, xiii, 90

  Summit Springs (Colo.). See Battles Sumner, Lt. Col. Edwin V., 405, 412 n16

  Sun River (Mont.), 121

  Superstition Mountains (Ariz.), 197

  Surgeon General, 36 n9, 87

  Sweetwater Creek (Tex.), 155, 159, 160 n40, 225, 228

  Sweetwater River (Wyo.), 241

  Sword Bearer (Crow), 402

  Tabeguache Ute Indians, 332, 340. See also Ute Indians

  Taft, Sec. War Alfonso, 30

  Taghee (Bannock), 322

  Tall Bull (Cheyenne), 116, 140 n16, 148, 159

  Taos, N.M., 174

  Tappan, Samuel F., 132–8, 145

  Tarahumari Indians, 364

  Targhee Pass (Ida.), 308, 309

  Tatum, Agent Lawrie, 207–12

  Taylor, Supt. E.B., 99, 102, 108 n15

  Taylor, Com. of Ind. Affairs N.G., 131–8, 139 n5 145

  Taza (Apache), 358

  Tecumseh (Shawnee), 402

  Teller, Sec. Int. Henry M., 381

  Ten Bears (Comanche), 140 n16

  Ten Eyck, Capt. Tenodor, 103, 105

  Tendoy (Bannock), 322

  Tenth Cavalry, 25–8, 71, 120, 148; in Jacksboro Affair, 209–11; Mexican border campaigns, 350 passim, 361–5, 387; in Red River War, 220 passim; in winter campaign of 1868–69, 147 passim

  Tenth Infantry, 122

  Terrazas, Col. Joaquin, 364

  Terry, Gen. Alfred H., 13, 48, 70, 94, 120–1, 44, 277, 288, 293 n21, 305, 318, 395 n34, 400, 411 n7; characterized, 34; heads commission to Canada, 285–6, 311; and Peace Commission of 1867, 132–8; in Sioux War of 1876, 248, 251–3, 256–8, 261, 268–70, 272, 281, 292 n10

  Teton Sioux Indians, 95; Ghost Dance among, 402–9; in 1866 war, 98–107; in 1876–81 war, 248–91. See also Sioux Indians; and specific Sioux tribes

  Texas (State), 1, 4, 14, 33, 46, 64, 67 n11, 73 76 93, 249 338, 390; border conflicts 344–56, 361–5; defense system, 163–8, 169–70, 183 n6; Indian raids in, 35, 97, 115, 127 n18, 137, 144, 164–6, 174, 207–14, 344–56; Reconstruction in, 166; Red River War in, 219 passim

  Texas Frontier Regiment, 164

  Texas Rangers, 166, 213

  Theller, Lt. Edward R., 301

  Third Cavalry, 17, 80, 149, 154, 170, 192, 215 n22; in Apache campaigns, 376, 379; in Sioux War of 1876, 248 passim, 268 passim; in Ute War, 335–7

  Third Infantry, 25, 27, 120, 126 n12, 147, 149, 286

  Thirteenth Infantry, 40 n63, 122

  Thirteenth Infantry, 122

  Thirty-eighth Infantry, 120, 137

  Thirty-fifth Infantry, 168, 183 n6

  Thirty-first Infantry, 122

  Thirty-ninth Infantry, 183 n6

  Thirty-second Infantry, 171, 186 n32

  Thirty-seventh Infantry, 116, 120, 149, 170

  Thirty-sixth Infantry, 122

  Thomas, Rev. Eleasar, 203

  Thomas, Capt. Evan, 204, 216 n33

  Thomas, Gen. George H., 34, 39 n58, 181

  Thomas, Gen. Lorenzo, 216 n33

  Thornburgh, Maj. Thomas T., 335–6, 339, 341

  Tiffany, Agent J.C., 371, 373–4

  Tinaja de las Palmas (Tex.). See Battles

  Tongue River (Wyo.-Mont.), 100, 103, 242, 249, 252, 254–5, 256, 272 passim, 284; cantonment at, 269 passim, 288, 310, 311

  Tongue River Reservation (Mont.), 284

  Tonkawa Indians, 225, 234 n9

  Tonto Basin (Ariz.), 184 n12, 376; Crook’s campaign in, 196–8

  Tonto Creek (Ariz.), 196

  Toohoolzote (Nez Percé), 297, 299, 305, 316

  Tosawi (Silver Brooch) (Comanche), 140 n16

  Townsend, Adj. Gen. Edward D., 30

  Treaties, nature of, 7, 95–6; with Bannocks (1868), 324; of Fort Laramie, 135 passim, 242, 243, 246, 272; of Medicine Lodge, 133–4 passim; with Modocs, 199; with Nez Percés (1863), 297; with Plains Indians (1865), 95–7, 170 n11; with Plains Indians (1866), 97—9; treaty system abolished, 214 n4; with Utes (1868), 332, 340

  Tres Castillos (Mex.). See Battles Trevino, Gen. Geronimo, 352, 355, 361

  Trobriand, Gen. Philippe Régis de, 17, 51, 52–3

  Tucson, Ariz., 169–70, 185 n14, 192, 358

  Tularosa Reservation (N.M.), 194, 198, 360–3, 391

  Tule Canyon (Tex.), 223, 225

  Tule Lake (Calif.), 199, 201, 203, 206, 216 n3o

  Tupper, Capt. Tullius C., 375–6

  Turner, Frederick Jackson, 410

  Turret Peak (Ariz.). See Battles Twelfth Infantry, 19, 216 n31, 217 n36, 306, 325, 372

  Twentieth Infantry, 37 n14, 175, 183 n6, 252

  Twenty-fifth Infantry, 25–8, 41 n89, 275

  Twenty-first Infantry, 192, 199 passim, 215 n22, 2r6 n31, 217 n36, 300 passim, 325—9

  Twenty-fourth Infantry, 16, 25–8, 73; Mexican border cam
paigns, 345 passim, 362–5

  Twenty-second Infantry, 122, 269 passim, 338

  Twenty-seventh Infantry, 103, 122–5, 136

  Twenty-sixth Infantry, 168, 183 n6

  Twenty-third Infantry, 175, 186 n32, 197, 204, 215 n22; in Paiute campaigns, 178–81

  Two Kettle Sioux Indians, 95, 135, 237. See also Sioux Indians; Teton Sioux Indians

  Two Moons (Cheyenne), 284

  Two Strike (Sioux), 405, 408

  Tyler, Capt. George H., 311–2

  Tzoe (Apache). See “Peaches”

  Uintah Ute Indians, 333. See also Ute Indians

  Uintah Valley Agency (Utah), 333, 339–40

  Umatilla Indians, 323–9, 330–2, 327

  Umatilla Reservation (Oreg.), 326–7, 330

  Uncompahgre Ute Indians, 332, 340. See also Ute Indians Uniforms, 73–7

  Union Pacific Railroad, 3, 95, 121–3, 135, 241, 243, 337–8

  U.S. Armory, 69–70, 77 n6

  U.S. Army, and act of 1866, 11–4, 18, 53; and act of 1869, 15; in Alaska, 181–3; amusements in, 87–8; in Apache wars, 168–74, 193–8, 344–93; attitudes of public toward, 22, 59, 65–7; attitudes toward Indians, 45, 111; bands in, 88; and Bozeman Trail war, 98–110, 172–6; brevet rank in, 13, 20–1, 37 n13, 39 n54, n57, 42 n100; chaplains in, 92 n35; command, 13–4, 32–5, 400; composition, 11–2, 15–8; concentration program, 47, 399; and Congress, 15, 17, 59 passim, desertion in, 23, 128 n32; disease in, 86–7; education, 24, 40 n77, 44–5; enlisted men, 22–5, 80–1; equipment, 75–6; esprit, 25–6; failure of appropriation for (1877), 62; fatigue labor, 83–4; foreigners in, 18–9, 23; frontier life, 80 passim, in Ghost Dance troubles, 403–9; in Hancock campaign (1867), 115–20; horsemanship, 24; humanitarian image, 399; humanitarian view, xiv, 188; and Indian Bureau, 112–3, 88–9, 382, 398; ladies in, 88–9; laundresses in, 89; logistics, 48, 158–9, 172, 175, 231–2; living conditions in, 22, 80, 82, 400; marksmanship, 24, 41 n78; medical services in, 87; Mexican border campaigns, 344–96; military justice, 84–5, 89 n15, n16; mobility, 47–8; in Modoc War, 199–207; noncommissioned officers, 23–4, 84; Negroes in, 10–1, 25–8, 36 n7, 170, 209–10; officers, 12–3, 15, 17, 18–22, 38 n40, 39 n48, 81; in Paiute wars, 178–81, 322–9; pay, 19, 22, 24, 38 n40, 39 n62; in Plains campaign (1868–69), 142–59; politics in, 13, 22, 59, 60; professionalism in, 44–5, 66; promotion, 19–21, 39 n46; punishment in, 84; rations in, 85–6; recruiting, 24–5; in Red River War, 219–33; retirement, 20, 39 n48; sanitation in, 86; self-view, xiii; in Sheepeater campaign, 329–32; significance in westward movement, 410–1; in Sioux wars (1876–81), 246–62, 267–91; social organization of, 83; staff, 11–2, 28 passim, 37 n18; staff-line relations, 28 passim; statistics of Indian combat, 410; strategies of Indian warfare, 44–58, 144–5, 158–9: strength of, 11–2, 15–8, 46–7, 61 passim, 67 n11; in Texas, 163–7, 344“56, 363: training, 24–5; uniforms, 73–4, 76–7; in Ute War, 332–42; weapons, 69–73. See also Artillery; Cavalry; Indian scouts; Infantry; Staff; and specific camps, departments, districts, forts, geographical divisions, regiments, staff departments

  U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, 8, 55, 56, 95, 35, 38, 143, 177, 96 97, 229, 240, 298–9, 339, 346, 357–8, 360, 362, 370, 372, 399, 403; and army, 112–3, 389–9; corruption, 7; and Modocs, 199 passim; and Peace Policy, 189–92, 397–8; proposed transfer to War Department, 112–3, 126 n10, 136–7, 138–9, 189–90; and Sioux War (1879), 246–7, 253

  U.S. Cavalry Association, 44

  U.S. Congress, 4, 14, 16; and army act of 1866, 10–11; and army reduction, 15–8; and attack on army, 15, 59–65; and brevet rank, 20–1; and economy, 59; and Indian Bureau transfer, 113, 126 n10, 136–7, 189–90, 399; and Mexican border friction, 353; and Negro soldiers, 10, 11, 27–8; and promotion, 19; and staff, 28, 30–2, 37 n18; and treaties, 214 n4. See also U.S. House of Representatives; U.S. Senate

  U.S. Department of Agriculture, 28

  U.S. Department of the Interior, 7, 60, 106, 189, 212, 247–8, 271, 299, 338, 341, 405

  U.S. House of Representatives, 10, 17, 136, 214 n4, 353; and army reorganization, 60 passim; and Indian Bureau transfer, 113, 126 n10, 189–90, 399. See also U.S. Congress; U.S. Senate

  U.S. Indian Commission of New York, 141 n23

  U.S. Military Academy, 15, 18, 21, 44, 63

  U.S. Senate, 10, 128, 136 n5, 214 n4; and army reorganization, 61 passim; and brevet rank, 21; and Indian Bureau transfer, 113, 126 n10, 189, 399; and treaties (1868), 136–7. See also U.S. Congress; U.S. House of Representatives

  U.S. State Department, 346, 353

  U.S. War Department, 11–2, 21, 28 passim, 56, 60, 84, 90 n4, 140 n14, 181, 183, 247–8, 309, 353, 405; Indian Bureau transfer, 112–3, 120 n10, 136–7, 138–9, 189–90, 398–9

  U.S.S. Saginaw, 182

  Upper Platte Agency (Neb.), 143

  Upton, Gen. Emory, 44, 45

  Utah (Territory), 13, 95, 122, 333, 339–40

  Ute Indians, 5, 184 n12, 322, 373; war with, 35, 332–42, 397

  Valle, Col. Adolph, 363

  Verde River (Ariz.), 170, 184 n12

  Veteran Reserve Corps, 11, 36 n7

  Victorio (Apache), 359–65, 369, 375

  Viele, Capt. Charles D., 227

  Vinegar Hill (Ida.). See Battles

  Virginia City, Mont., 95, 135, 309

  Volunteers, xiii, 11, 13, 18, 21, 53, 64, 92, 97, 117–8, 129, 144, 165–8, 172, 198–9, 267, 308

  Wade, Maj. James F., 359 Wagon Box Fight (Wyo.). See Battles

  Walapai Indians, 169, 173, 184 n12, 185 n28

  Walker, Com. Ind. Affairs Francis A., 196, 246

  Walker River Reservation (Nev.), 322

  Wallowa Mountains (Oreg.), 297

  Wallowa Valley (Oreg.), 297–300, 315

  Walpapi Paiute Indians, 178, 323. See also Northern Paiute Indians

  Walsh, Maj. J.M., 285, 287–8

  Wands, Lt. Alexander H., 109 n25

  War Bonnet Creek (Neb.). See Battles

  War Department. See U.S. War Department

  Warm Springs Apache Indians, 184 n12, 194, 359–65; in Geronimo warfare, 371 passim. See also Apache Indians; Gila Apache Indians; Chiricahua Apache Indians

  Washa Lobo (Lipan), 345

  Washakie (Shoshoni), 268, 332

  Washington (Territory), 14, 175–7, 315 35

  Washington, D.C., 14, 33, 60, 63, 76, 132, 212, 239, 245, 282, 286, 351, 352, 369, 382, 384, 386, 403

  Washington, George, 12

  Washita (Okla.). See Battles

  Washita River (Okla.), 149–51, 153, 155, 159, 221 passim

  Watkins, Insp. E.C., 247–8

  Weapons, military, 95–105

  Weichell, Mrs. Maria, 157

  Weigley, Russell, 14

  Weippe Prairie (Ida.), 305

  Wessels, Lt. Col. Henry W., 106, 110 n33, 294 n34

  Wessels, Capt. Henry W., Jr., 191, 283–4, 294 n35

  West Point Military Academy. See U.S. Military Academy

  Western Apache Indians, 184 n12, 344. See also Apache Indians; and specific Western Apache groups

  Wheatley, James, 105

  Wheaton, Col. Frank, 199, 201–2, 204, 217 n36, 321 n24, 324–7, 330

  Wheelan, Capt. James W., 280

  Whetstone Agency (S.D.), 237–40

  Whipple, Capt. Stephen G., 302

  Whipple Barracks, Ariz. See Fort Whipple White, Sarah, 162 n37

  White Antelope (Cheyenne), 228

  White Bird (Nez Percé), 285, 297, 299–300, 305, 307, 313–6

  White Bird Canyon (Ida.). See Battles

  White Bull (Cheyenne), 280

  White Clay Creek (S.D.). See Battle of Drexel Mission

  White Horse (Cheyenne), 116, 148, 157

  White Horse (Kiowa), 229, 233

  White Mountain Apache Indians, 169 passim, 184 n12, 194, 357; Natiotish outbreak, 376–7; outbreak of 1881, 370–5. See also Apache Indians; Western Apache Indians

  White River (Colo.), 332 passim; (S.D.), 239, 240, 283, 404–5, 408
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  White River Agency (Colo.), 332–42

  Whitman, Lt. Royal E., 192

  Whitside, Maj. Samuel M., 406

  Wichita Agency (Okla.), 197

  Wichita Indians, 144

  Wichita Mountains (Okla.), 153, 154, 221

  Wilcox, Gen. Cadmus, 61

  Wilcox, Agent P.P., 377, 381–2

  Willcox, Ariz., 379

  Willcox, Gen. Orlando B., 366 n26, 372–5, 377, 397, 411 n7

  Williams, Capt. J.M., 173, 174

  Williams, Lt. Col. Robert, 338, 343 n25

  Willow Creek (Calif.), 205

  Wiminuche Ute Indians, 332, 341. See also Ute Indians

  Winchester rifle, 71–2, 259, 406

  Wind River (Wyo.), 241

  Winnemucca (Paiute), 323

  Winnemucca, Sarah (Paiute), 325

  Winter clothing, 76

  Wisconsin (State), 61

  Wolf Mountains (Mont.). See Battles

  Woman’s Heart (Kiowa), 140 n16, 154, 224, 229, 233

  Wood, Rep. Fernando, 60

  Wood, Maj. H. Clay, 298, 319 n4

  Wood, Dr. Leonard, 387–92

  Wood Mountain (Canada), 285

  Wounded Knee (S.D.). See Battles

  Wovoka (Paiute), 402–3

  Wright, Gen. George, 216 n33

  Wright, Lt. Thomas F., 216 n33

  Wynkoop, Agent Edward W., 115 passim, 138, 143, 147, 152

  Wyoming (Territory), 54, 123, 135, 278, 328, 335, 337–8

  Yahuskin Paiute Indians, 178, 323. See also Northern Paiute Indians

  Yakima Reservation (Wash.), 328

  Yampa Ute Indians, 232. See also Ute Indians

  Yamparika Comanche Indians, 144, 160 n13. See also Comanche Indians

  Yanktonai Sioux Indians, 95, 122, 135, 237, 254, 274. See also Sioux Indians

  Yaqui River (Mex.), 378, 388

  Yavapai Indians, 169–71, 184 n12, 185 n28, 193, 194, 196–8, 356, 357, 370

  Yellow Bird (Sioux), 406–7

  Yellow Hair (Cheyenne). See Yellow Hand

  Yellow Hand (Cheyenne), 268, 291

  Yellowstone National Park (Wyo.), 72, 308–9, 310, 319, 328

  Yellowstone River (Mont.), 121, 122, 137, 236 passim, 267 passim, 310–1, 314, 400

  Young, Brigham, 47

  Young, Capt. S.B.M., 173

  Yreka, Calif., 199

  Yuma Indians, 184 n12, 370

  Zaragosa (Mex.), 345, 350–2

  Zele (Apache), 369

 

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