(1903 reminiscence by a “former trooper,” perhaps faulty in certain details, of the recovery some 30 years earlier of four sisters taken captive by the Indians who killed their parents and brothers)

Ottumwa Courier / August 13, 1903

AN INDIAN CAMPAIGN

GENERAL MILES’ PURSUIT OF CHEYENNES IN TEXAS.

Former Trooper Tells of Frontier Experience in 1874-75 -- An Indian Massacre and Miles’ Expedition to Pursue the Guilty Indians.

The recent retirement of General Nelson A. Miles calls to mind the expedition against the Cheyenne Indians in the fall and winter of 1874-5 and the spring of 1875 in the Indian Territory and northern Texas. A participant in the expedition who at present lives in Omaha, tells the following story.

“The causes leading up to that expedition were the outbreaks of the southern Cheyennes along the Kansas border. A number of persons were killed and large numbers of livestock were run off into the territory by the Indians. The buffalo were gradually but surely disappearing. The troops then in that section of Kansas

An Oglala Sioux Indian camp, consisting of tipis and wagons, sits in front of a government building at the United States School for Indians at Pine Ridge, South Dakota in 1891.

This detail from the image above shows women standing in the camp.

A Posse of Twelve Men Fails to Capture Nine Robbers.

New-York Times / March 25, 1899

CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 25 — Information has been received here of a battle fought Thursday evening in the Book Cliff Mountains, south of Green River, Wyo., between a posse of Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado officers and a portion of the "Robbers' Roost" band of outlaws.

Captured in the Mountains on the Wyoming-Colorado Boundary

New-York Times / March 7, 1898

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, March 7. — Meagre details were received here to-night of the lynching in the Henry Mountains near the Wyoming-Colorado boundary of three members of the "Robbers' Roost" band of outlaws which has been terrorizing that region for several years. The men lynched are Louis P. Johnson, F. Bemret, and an unknown man.

Two weeks ago Johnson murdered a boy named William Strong at Valentine Hoy's ranch, Wyoming. Hoy headed a posse to pursue Johnson and was ambushed and killed Monday last.