WATERBURY EVENING DEMOCRAT, SATURDAY, OCTOBER -20. 1900.
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Riding at ease in the lazy afternoon
sunshine, a single troop of cavalry was
threading its way in long column of
twos through the bold and beautiful
foothills of the Big Horn. Behind them,
glinting in the slanting rays, Cloud
peak, snow-clad still, although it was
late in May, towered above the pine
crested summits of the range. To the
right and left of the winding trail bare
shoulders of bluff, covered only by the
dense carpet of bunch grass, jutted out
Into the comparative level of the east
ward plain. A clear, cold, sparkling
stream, on whose banks the little com
mand had halted fcr a noontide rest,
went rollicking away northeastward,
and many a veteran trooper looked
longingly, even regretfully, after it,
and then cast a gloomy glance over
the barren and desolate stretch ahead.
Far as the eye could reach in that di
rection the earth waves heaved and
rolled in unrelieved monotony to the
very sky line, save where here and
there along the slopes black herds or
scattered dots of buffalo were grazing,
unvexed by hunters, red or white, for
this was 30 years ago, when, in
countless thousands, the bison covered
the westward prairies, and there were
officers who forbade their senseless
slaughter to make food only for the
worthless, prowling coyotes. No won
der the trooper hated to leave the foot
hills of the mountains, with the cold,
clear trout streams and the bracing
air, to take to long days' marching over
dull waste and treeless prairie, covered
only by sagebrush, rent and torn by
dry ravines, shadeless, springless, al
most waterless, save where in un
wholesome hollows dull pools of stag
nant water still held out against the
sun, or, further still southeast among
the "breaks" of the many forks of the
South Cheyenne, on the sandy flats
men dug for water for their suffering
horses, yet shrank from drinking it
themselves lest their lips should crack
and bleed through the shriveling touch
of the alkali.
Barely two years a commissioned of
ficer, the young lieutenant at the head
of the column, rode buoyantly along,
caring little for the landscape, since
with every traversed mile he found
himself just that much nearer home.
Twenty-five summers, counting this
one coming, had rolled over his curly
head, and each one had seemed bright
er, happier, than the las.t a but the
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F. Tennyson Neely.
one he speni as a nara-worKea -pieDe"
at the military academy. His gradua
tion summer two years previous was a
glory to him, as well as to a pretty sis
ter, young and enthusiastic enough to
think a brother in the regulars, just
out of West Point, something to be
made much of, and Jessie Dean had lost
no opportunity of spoiling her soldier
or of wearying her school friends
through telling of his manifold perfec
tions. He was a manly, stalwart, hand
some fellow, as young graduates go,
and old ones wish they might go over
again. He was a fond tmd not too teas
ing kind of brother. He wasn't the
brightest fellow in the class by thirty
odd, and had barely scraped through
one or two of his examinations, but
Jessie proudly pointed to the fact that
much more than half the class had
"scraped off" entirely, and therefore
that those who succeeded in getting
through at all were paragons, especial
ly Brother Marshall. But girls at that
school had brothers of their own, girls
who had never seen West Point, or had
the cadet fever, and were not im
pressed with young officers as painted
by so indulgent a sister. Most of the
girls had tired of Jessie's talks, and
some had told her so, but there was
one who had been sympathetic from
the start a far western, friendless sort
of girl she was when first she entered
school, uneouthly dressed, wretchedly
homesick and anything but compan
ionable, and yet Jessie Dean's kiad
heart had warmed to this friendless
waif and she became her champion,
her ally, and later, much to her genu
ine surprise, almost her idol. It pres
ently transpired that "the Pappoose,"
as the girls nicknamed her, because it
was learned that she had been rocked
in an Indian cradle and had long worn
moccasins instead of shoes (which ac
counted for her feet being so much
finer in their shape than those of her
fellows), was quick and intelligent be
yond her years, that, though apparent
ly hopelessly behind in all their studies
at the start, and provoking ridicule and
sneers during the many weeks of her
loneliness and home-longing, she sud
denly began settling to her work with
grim determination, surprising her
teachers and amazing her mates by
the vim and originality of her meth
ods, and before the end of the year
climbing for the laurels with a mental
strength and agility that put other ef
forts to the blush. Then came weeks
of bliss spent with a doting father at
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Niagara, the seashore and the jroint
a dear old dad as ill at ease in eastern
circles as his daughter had been, at
first at school, until he found himself
welcomed with open arms to the offi
cers' messrooms at the Point, for John
Folsom was as noted a frontiersman
as ever trod the plains, a man old offi
cers of the cavalry and infantry knew
and honored as "a square trader" in
the Indian country a man whom the
Indians themselves loved and trusted
far and wide, and when a man has won
the trust and faith of an Indian let
him grapple it to his breast as a treas
ure worth the having, great even as
"the heart love of a child." Sioux,
Shoshone and Cheyenne, they would
turn to "Old John" in their councils,
their dealings, their treaties, their per
plexities, for when he said a thing was
right and square their doubts were
gone, and there at the Point the now
well-to-do old trader met men who had
known him in bygone days at Laramie
and Omaha, and there his pretty
schoolgirl daughter met her bosom
friend's big brother Marshall, a first
classman in all his glory, dancing with
damsels in society, while she was but
a maiden shy in short dresses. Oh, how
Jess had longed to be of that party to
the Point, but her home was in the far
west, her father long dead and buried,
her mother an invalid, and the child
was needed there. Earnestly had old
Folsom written, begging that she who
had been so kind to his little girl should
be allowed to visit the seashore and
the Point with him and "Pappoose," as
he laughingly referred to her, adopt
ing the school name given by the girls;
but they were proud people, were the
Deans, end poor and sensitive. They
thanked Mr. Folsom warmly. "Jessie
was greatly needed at home this sum
mer" was the answer; but Folsom
somehow felt it was because they
dreaded to accept courtesies they could
not repay in kind.
"As if I could ever repay Jess for all
the loving kindness to my little girl in
her loneliness," said he. No, there
was no delicious visiting with Pappoose
that summer, but with what eager in
terest had she not devoured the letters
telling of the wonderful sights Jhe
little far westerner saw the ocean, the
great Niagara, the beautiful Point in
the heart of the Highlands, but, above
all, that crowned monarch, that
plumed knight, that incomparable big
brother, Cadet Capt. Marshall Dean.
Yes, he had come to call the very even
ing of their arrival. He had escorted
them out, papa and Pappoose, to hear
the band playing on the plain. He
had made her take his arm, "a school
girl in short dresses," and promenaded
with her up and down the beautiful,
shaded walks, thronged with ladies,
officers and cadets, while some old
cronies took father away to the mess
for a julep, and Mr. Dean had intro
duced some young girls, professors'
daughters, and they had come and
taken her driving and to tea, and she
had seen him every day, many times a
day, at guard mounting, drill, pontoon- '
ing or parade, or on the hotel piazzas,
but only to look at or speak to for a
minute, for of course she was "only a
child," and there were dozens of so
ciety girls, young ladies, to whom he
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had to be attentive, especially a very
stylish Miss . Brockway, from New
York, with whom he walked and danced
a great deal, and whom the other girls
tried to tease about him. Pappoose
didn't write it in so many words, but
Jessie; reading those letters between
the lines and .every which "way, could
easily divine that Pappoose didn't fancy
H, nude her tko hi aim.
Miss Brockway at all. And then had
come a wonderful day, a wonderful
thing, into the schoolgirl's life. No
less than twelve pages did sixteen-year-old
Pappoose take to tell it, and
when a girl finds time to write a twelve
page letter from the Point she has more
to tell than- she can possibly contain.
Mr. Dean had actually invited heir
her, Elinor Merchant Folsom Wino
na, as they called her when she was a
toddler among the tepees of the Sioux
Pappoose as the girls had named her
at school "Nell," as Jessie called her
sweetest name of all despite the ring
of sadness that ever hangs about it
and Daddy had jactually smiled and ap
proved her gqijbg to the midweek hop
on a cadet captain's broad chevroned
arm, and she had worn her prettiest
white gown, and the girls had brought
her roses, an(J Mr. Dean had called for
her before aji tbejbig girls, and she
had gone off with him, radiant, and he
had actually j mtde out her card for
her, and takri Three dances himself,
and had presented such pleasant fel
lows first claS'smenr and "yearlings."
There was Mr. Billings, the cadet ad
jutant, and Mr. Kay, who was a cadet
sergeant "cut on furlough" and kept
back, but such a beautiful dancer, and
there was the first captain, such a
witty, brilliant fellow, who only
danced square dances, and several ca
det corporals, all hop managers, in
their red sashes. Why, she was just the
proudest girl in the room! And when
the drum beat and the hop broke up
she couldn't believe she'd been there
an hour and three-quarters, and then
Mr. Dean escorted her back to the
hotel, and Daddy had smiled and
looked on and told him he must come
into the cavalrywhen he graduated
netx June, and he'd show him the
Sioux country, and Pappoose would
teach him Indian dances. It was all
simply lovely. Of course she knew it
was all due to Jessie that her splendid
big brother should give up a whole
evenimr from his ladv friends. (Miss
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Brockway spoke so patronizingly to
her in the hall when the girls were all
talking together after the cadets had
scurried away to answer tattoo roll
call.) Of course she understood that
if it hadn't been for Jessie none of
the cadets would have taken' -the
slightest notice of her, a mere -chit,
with three years of school still ahead
of her. But all the same it w-as some
thing to live over and over again, and
dream of over and over again, and the
seashore seemed very stupid after the
Point. Next year next June when
Marshall graduated Jessie was to go
and see that wonderful spot, and go
she did with Pappoose, too, and though
it was all as beautiful as Pappoose
had described, and the scene and the
music and the parades and all were
splendid, there was no deliriously
lovely hop, for in those days there
could be no dancing in the midst of
examinations. There was only the one
great ball given by the second to the
graduating class, and Marshall had so
many, many older girls to dance with
and say good-by to he had only time for
a few words with his sister and her
shy, silent little friend with the big
brown eyes to whom he had been so
kind the previous summer, when there
were three hops a week and not so
many hoppers in long dresses. Still,
Marshall had one dance with each, and
introduced nice boys from the lower
classes, and it was all very well, only
not what Pappoose had painted, and
Jessie couldn't help thinking and say
ing it might all have been so much
sweeter, if it hadn't been for that odious
Miss Brockway, about whom Mai ..hall
hovered altogether too much, but, like
the little Indian the girls sometimes
said she was, Pappoose looked on and
said nothing.
All the same, Mr. Dean had had a
glorious graduation summer of it,
though Jessie saw too little of him,
and Pappoose nothing at all after the
breaking of the class. In September
the girls .returned to school, friends
as close as ever, even though a little
cloud overshadowed the hitherto un
broken confidences, and Marshall
joined' the cavalry, as old Folsom had
suggested, and took to the saddle, the
prairie, the bivouac and buffalo hunt
as though native and to the manner
born. They were building the Union
Pacific then, and he and his troop,
with dozens of others scattered along
the line, were busy scouting the neigh
borhood, guarding the surveyors, the
engineers, and finally the track-layers,
for the jealous red men swarmed in
myriads all along the way, lacking
only unanimity, organization and lead
ership to enable them to defeat the
enterprise. And then when the whist
ling engines passed the forks of the
Platte and began to climb up the long
slope of the Rockies to Cheyenne and
Sherman Pass, the trouble and disaf
fection spread to tribes far more nu
merous and powerful further to the
north and northwest; and there rose
above the hordes of warriors a chief
whose name became the synonym for
deep-rooted and determined" hostility
to the whites Machpealota (Red
Cloud) and old John Folsom, he' whom
the Indians loved and trusted, grew
anxious and troubled, and went from
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post to post witn words of warning on
his tongue. '
. . "Gentlemen,' he said to the commis
sioners who came to treat with the
Sioux whose hunting grounds adjoined
the line , of the railway, "it's all "very
well to have peace with these people
here It is wise to cultivate tbe friend
ship of such chiefs as Spotted Tail and
OldMan-Afraid-sf - His -Horses, but
there are irreconcilables beyond them,
far more numerous and powerful, who
are planning, preaching war this min
ute. Watch Red Cloud, Red Dog, Lit
tle Big Man. Double, treble your gar
risons at the posts along the Big Horn;
get your women and children out of
them, or else abandon the forts entire
ly. I know those warriors well. They
outnumber you twenty to one. Re
enforce your garrisons without delay
or get out of that country, one of the
two. Draw everything south of the
Platte while yet ' -re is time."
But wiseacres at Washington said
the Indians were peaceable, and. all
that was needed was a new post and
another little garrison at Warrior Gap,
in the eastward foothills of the range.
Eight hundred thousand dollars would
build it, "provided the labor of the
troops was utilized." and leave a good
margin for the contractors and "the
bureau." And it was to escort the
quartermaster and engineer officer and
an aide-de-camp on preliminary survey
that C troop of the cavalry, Cr.pt.
Brooks commanding, had been sent on
the march from the North Platte at
Fetterman to the headwaters of the
Powder river in the Hills, and1 with it
went its new first lieutenant, Marshall
Dean.
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Promotion was rapid in the cavalry
in those days, so soon after the war.
Indians contributed" largely to the gen
eral move, but there were other causes,
too. Dean had served, little over a year
as second' lieutenant in a troop doing
duty along the lower Platte, when va
cancies occurring gave him speedy and.
unlooked-for lift. He had met Mr.
Folsom only once. The veteran trader
had embarked much of his capital in
business at Uate City, beyond the Rock
ies, but officers from Fort Emory, close
to the new frontier town, occasionally
told1 him he had won a stanch friend in
that solid citizen.
"You ought to get transferred to
Emory," they said. "Here's the band,
half a dozen pretty girls, hops twice a
week, hunts and picnics all through
the spring and summer in the moun
tains, fishing ad lioitum, and lots of
fun all the year around." But Dean's
ears were oddly deaf. A classmate let
fall the observation that it was be
cause of a New York girl who had jilt
ed him that Dean had foresworn so
ciety and stuck to a troop in the field;
but men who knew and served with the
young fellow found him an enthusiast
in his profession, passionately fond of
cavalry life in the open, a bold rider, a
keen shot and a born hunter. Up with
the dawn day after day, in saddle long
hours, scouting the divides and ridges,
stalking antelope and black-tail deer,
chasing buffalo, he lived a life that
hardened every muscle, bronzed the
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toeven monotonous existence a "verve
and zest the dawdlers in those old-time
garrisons never knew. -
All the long summer of the year after
his graduation, from mid-April until
November, he never once slept beneath
a wooden roof, and more often than
not the sky was his only canopy. That
summer, too, Jessie spent at home, '
Pappoose with her most of the time,
and one year more would finish them
at the reliable old Ohio school. By
that time Folsom's , handsome new
home would be in readiness to receive
his daughter at Gate City. By that
time, too, Marshall might hope to hay)
a leave and come in to Illinois to wel
come his sister and gladden his moth
er's eyes. But until then, the boy had
said to himself, he'd stick to the field,
and the troop that had the roughest
work to do was the one that suited him,
and so it had happened that by tho
second spring of his service in the regi
ment no subaltern was held in higher
esteem by senior officers or regarded
with more envy by the lazy ones among
the juniors than the young graduate,
for those, too, were days in which grad
uates were few and far between, except
in higher grades. Twice had he ridden
in the dead of winter the devious trail
through the Medicine Bow range to
Frayne. Once already had he -been
sent the long march to and from the
Big Horn, and when certain officers
were ordered to the mountains early in
the spring to locate the site of the new
post at Warrior Gap, Brooks' troop, as
has been said, went along as escort and
Brooks caught mountain fever in the
hills, or some such ailment, and made
the home trip in the ambulance, leav
ing the active command of "C troop
to his subaltern. ; r
With the selection of the site Dean
had nothing to do. Silently he looked
on as the quartermaster, the engineer
and a staff officer from Omaha paced
off certain lines, took shots with f.heir
instruments at neighboring waters of
the fork. Two companies of infantry,
sent down from further posts along the
northern slopes of the range, . had
stacked their arms and pitched their
"dog tents," and vigilant vedettes" and
sentries peered over every command
ing height and ridge to secure the in
vaders against surprise. Invaders they
certainly were from the Indian point
of view, for this was Indian Story
Land, the most prized, the most beauti
ful, the most prolific in fish and game
in all the continent. Never had the red
man clung with such tenacity to any
section of his hunting grounds as did
the northern Sioux to this, the north
and northeast watershed of the Big
Horn range. Old Indian fighters
among the men shook , their heads
when the quartermaster . selected a
level bench as the site on which to be
gin the stockade that was to inclos
the officers quarters and the barracks,
storehouse and magazine, and omin
ously they glanced at one another and
then at the pine-skirted ridge that rose,
sharp and sudden, against the sky, not
400 yards away, dominating the site en
' tirely.
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