by Dee Brown
Other sources used for background material: Brady, 224; Parry, 131; U.S. War Dept., 18th Infantry Regiment, Muster Rolls and Record of Events, April-May1866;Vestal, Jim Bridger, 224, 246.
CHAPTER III: JUNE
1. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 5.
2. M. Carrington, 59.
3. Bisbee, Through Four American Wars, 163.
4. Murphy, 383.
5. M. Carrington, 46.
6. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 3.
7. M. Carrington, 70.
8. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 3-4.
9. Ibid., 4.
10. Ibid., 5.
11. Ibid., 6.
12. Ibid., 8.
13. M. Carrington, 76.
14. Hunton, John, “History of the Old Sutler Store Coins,” Fort Laramie Scout, Dec. 12, 1918.
15. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 18; M. Carrington, 79.
16. H. B. Carrington, 3; M. Carrington, 79-80.
17. F. Carrington, 124-25.
18. Ibid., 125.
19. Birge, 181.
20. Murphy, 384.
21. Bisbee, “Items of Indian Service,” 26.
22. Glover, 239-40.
23. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 6.
24. M. Carrington, 80.
25. Dunn, 485.
26. M. Carrington, 94.
27. Ibid., 83.
28. Ibid., 84.
29. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 4-5.
30. Murphy, 384.
31. M. Carrington, 90.
32. Ibid., 91-92.
33. Gatchell, “Events of the Year 1865,” Annals of Wyoming, Vol. 27, 1955, 156.
34. Gatchell, “Life of John Ryan,” Annals of Wyoming, Vol. 31, 1959, 48-52.
35. Murphy, 384.
36. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 7; M. Carrington, 95.
37. Murphy.
38. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1stsess. Senate executive document 33.
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CHAPTER IV: JULY
1. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 16.
2. Murphy, 385.
3. Ibid.
4. M. Carrington, 25-26.
5. Bisbee, Through Four American Wars, 168.
6. J. B. Carrington, 70.
7. M. Carrington, 101.
8. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 9.
9. M. Carrington, 101.
10. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 13.
11. Ibid., 9.
12. Ibid.
13. Murphy, 386.
14. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 14.
15. M. Carrington 29, 107.
16. H. B. Carrington, 9.
17. M. Carrington, 112-15.
18. Ibid., 115.
19. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 10.
20. Hebard and Brininstool, I, 264.
21. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 12.
22. Murphy, 386.
23. Bisbee, “Items of Indian Service,” 27.
24. Murphy, 386.
25. Gatchell, “Life of John Ryan,” 49.
26. Bisbee, 27.
27. M. Carrington, 184-85.
28. Murphy, 386.
29. Ostrander, 149.
30. Murphy, 387.
31. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 11.
32. Hebard and Brininstool, II, 90.
33. Glover, 339.
34. F. Carrington, 74-75.
35. Ibid., 76.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid., 77-78.
38. Glover, 339.
39. F. Carrington, 78.
40. Hebard and Brininstool, II, 91.
41. F. Carrington, 79-80.
42. Ibid., 80.
43. Hebard and Brininstool, II, 92.
44. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 13.
45. Glover, 339.
46. Hebard and Brininstool, II, 94.
47. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 55.
48. Hebard and Brininstool, II, 93.
49. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 12-13.
50. Ibid., 13, 16.
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CHAPTER V: AUGUST
1. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 18.
2. U.S. War Dept., 18th Infantry Regiment. Muster Rolls and Record of Events, August 1866.
3. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 20.
4. Hebard, “James Bridger,” 145-48.
5. Army and Navy Journal, December 29, 1866, Vol. 4, 294.
6. Fox, 594.
7. F. Carrington, 97.
8. Army and Navy Journal, November 3, 1866, Vol. 4, 169.
9. M. Carrington, 141-42.
10. U.S. War Dept., 18th Infantry Regiment. Muster Rolls and Record of Events, August 1866.
11. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 44.
12. Boehmer, George A., Unpublished notebook. Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution.
13. U.S. Congress. 40th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 13, 36.
14. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 17.
15. Ibid., 17-18.
16. Army and Navy Journal, November 17, 1866, Vol. 4, 198.
17. Hebard and Brininstool, I, 286.
18. Glover, 367-69.
19. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1stsess. Senate executive document 33, 18, 48.
Other sources used for background material: Dunn, 487, 503; Shockley, “Fort Phil Kearny,”28; U.S. War Dept., Fort Philip Kearny, Post Returns, August 1866.
CHAPTER VI: SEPTEMBER
1. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 23.
2. U.S. War Dept., Fort Phil Kearny, Dakota Territory. Board of Survey Orders, September 1866.
3. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 22.
4. Ibid., 23.
5. U.S. War Dept., Fort Phil Kearny, Dakota Territory. Post Returns, December 1866; Hebard and Brininstool, II, 98.
6. Bratt, 87-94.
7. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 24.
8. Ibid., 28.
9. Ibid., 22.
10. Gatchell, “Life of John Ryan,” 50.
11. Hebard and Brininstool, II, 96-97.
12. Bisbee, Through Four American Wars, 170.
13. Gatchell, 50.
14. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 24.
15. F. Carrington, 85-86.
16. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 30.
17. Ibid., 23-25.
18. F. Carrington, 90.
19. U.S. War Dept., Dept. of the Platte. Letter Book No. 1, 1866.
20. F. Carrington, 121.
21. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33,
25.
22. U.S. War Dept., 18th Infantry Regiment. Muster Rolls and Record of Events, September 1866.
23. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 28-29.
24. Hebard and Brininstool, I, 99.
25. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 25.
26. Ibid., 25-27.
27. M. Carrington, 159-60.
28. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 29.
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CHAPTER VII. OCTOBER
1. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 32.
2. U.S. War Dept., Fort Philip Kearny, Dakota Territory. Board of Survey Orders, October 1866.
3. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 32.
4. Ibid., 31.
5. Ibid., 46.
6. U.S. Congress. 40th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 13, 31.
7. U.S. Congress. 50th.1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 32.
8. Story, 6-7.
9. Wellman, 95-100; Brown and Schmitt, 179-181.
10. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 32-33.
11. Ibid., 32.
12. M. Carrington, 172.
13. Murphy, 386.
14. M. Carrington, 151.
15. Ibid., 152-56.
16. F. Carrington, 116-17.
17. U.S. War Dept., 18th Infantry Regiment. Muster Rolls and Record of Events, October 1866.
18. M. Carrington, 156.
Other sources used for background material: Army and Navy Journal, Vol. 4, 214, 236; Brady, 217; Burt, 120; Hebard and Brininstool, I, 289, 293; II, 94; Ostrander, 255; Shockley, “Fort Phil Kearny,”27-32; U.S. War Dept., Fort Philip Kearny, Dakota Territory, Post Returns, October 1866; Young, 345-49.
CHAPTER VIII: NOVEMBER
1. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 47.
2. Bratt, 96-98.
3. U.S. War Dept. The War of the Rebellion … Official Records, Ser. I, Vol. 38, Pt. I, 94, 527, 558, 560, 577-78. 586-88.
4. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 34.
5. Ibid., 20-21.
6. Ibid., 21.
7. M. Carrington, 171; Hebard and Brininstool, I, 305.
8. F. Carrington, 120.
9. Ibid., 96.
10. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 33; F. Carrington, 111.
11. Army and Navy Journal, November 3, 1866, Vol. 4, 169.
12. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document, 33, 34.
13. Murphy, 391.
14. Bisbee, Through Four American Wars, 172-73.
15. F. Carrington, 122.
16. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 34-35.
17. Ibid., 36.
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CHAPTER IX: DECEMBER
1. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document33, 49.
2. Ibid., 47.
3. U.S. Congress. 39th. 2nd sess. House. Message of the President(Executive document 1) Washington, D. C, 1867.
4. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 37.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid., 38.
7. Bisbee, “Items,” 29.
8. U.S. Congress. 40th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 13, 37-38.
9. Ibid., 14.
10. Guthrie, 718.
11. Ibid.
12. Murphy, 389; Hebard and Brininstool, II, 99.
13. F. Carrington, 134.
14. M. Carrington, 194.
15. Vestal, Jim Bridger, 270.
16. Old Travois Trails, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1942, 65.
17. Bisbee, Through Four American Wars, 176.
18. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 36-38.
19. Ibid., 39; F. Carrington, 135.
20. U.S. Congress. 40th.1st sess. Senate executive document13, 38; U.S. Congress.50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 39.
21. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 39.
22. Vestal, Jim Bridger, 273; M. Carrington, 202.
23. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 40.
24. F. Carrington, 143.
25. Ibid., 143-44.
26. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 44.
27. Grinnell, 243-44.
28. U.S. Congress. 50th.1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 45.
29. U.S. Congress. 40th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 13, 64.
30. Murphy, 389-90.
31. U.S. Congress. 40th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 13, 15.
32. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 45.
33. F. Carrington, 146.
34. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 46.
35. Ibid.
36. Murphy, 390.
37. U.S. Congress. 40th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 13, 15.
38. Murphy, 390-91.
39. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 41.
40. Guthrie, 717.
41. U.S. Congress. 40th.1st sess. Senate executive document 13,15.
42. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 45.
43. F. Carrington, 146-47.
44. Hebard and Brininstool, II, 101-102.
45. J. Carrington, 71.
46. Hebard and Brininstool, II, 101-102.
47. F. Carrington, 149.
48. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 49-50.
49. U.S. Congress. 40th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 13, 35.
50. Hunton, John, Letter to Grace R. Hebard. The Frontier, Vol. II, 1931, 376.
51. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 44.
52. Shockley, “A Forgotten Hero,” 17-20; Burt, 128-30; Ostrander, 168.
53. Ostrander, 169.
54. H. B. Carrington, 8.
55. F. Carrington, 151.
56. Ibid., 152.
57. Ibid., 153-54.
58. David, 129.
59. Guthrie, 717.
60. H. B. Carrington, 16.
61. David, 127.
62. Army and Navy Journal, April 13, 1867, Vol. 4, 546.
63. U.S. Congress. 40th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 13, 65.
64. Guthrie, 717.
65. F. Carrington, 155.
66. David, 129.
67. F. Carrington, 155, 158.
68. U.S. Congress. 40th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 13, 35.
69. Ibid., 24-25.
70. Gordon, 281.
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CHAPTER X: JANUARY
1. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 49.
2. U.S. Congress. 40th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 13, 36.
3. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess.
Senate executive document 33, 42-43.
4. Ibid., 39-41.
5. F. Carrington, 164.
6. U.S. Congress. 40th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 13, 28.
7. Ibid., 29.
8. Ibid.
9. Gordon, 281-84.
10. Ibid.
11. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 44.
12. Ibid., 49.
13. F. Carrington,187-89.
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CHAPTER XI: AFTERMATH
1. M. Carrington, 220-21.
2. U.S. Congress. 40th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 13, 8-9.
3. Ibid., 16.
4. Army and Navy Journal, January 5, 1867, Vol. 4, 317.
5. U.S. Congress. 40th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 13, 40.
6. Army and Navy Journal, February 9, 1867, Vol. 4, 397.
7. U.S. Congress. 40th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 13, 7.
8. Ibid., 55.
9. U.S. Congress. 50th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 33, 50.
10. Ibid., 50.
11. Army and Navy Journal, June 29,1867, Vol. 4, 714-15.
12. U.S. Congress. 40th. 1st sess. Senate executive document 13, 61-66.
13. Army and Navy Journal, February 16, 1867, Vol. 4, 406.
14. Shockley, “Fort Phil Kearny,” 32.
15. Murphy, 392.
16. Gordon, 283.
17. David, 135.
18. Shockley, 32.
19. Hebard and Brininstool, II, 105.
20. Murphy, 392.
21. Ibid.
22. Shockley, 32.
23. Ibid.
24. Gordon, 283.
25. U.S. War Dept., Fort Philip Kearny, Dakota Territory. Post Returns, March 1867.
26. Ibid., May 1867.
27. Army and Navy Journal, February 16, 1867, Vol. 4, 406.
28. Murphy, 392.
29. Army and Navy Journal, May 2, 1868, Vol. 5, 582.
30. Hebard and Brininstool, II, 54.
31. Ibid., 66-67.
32. Army and Navy Journal, May 30, 1868, Vol. 5, 646.
33. Carrington, H. B., Letter to George Coutant, June 6, 1902. (Hebard and Brininstool, I, 340-41.)
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