Ab-sa-ra-ka, land of massacre / by Margaret Carrington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carrington, Margaret Irvin, 1831-1870.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 18th.

United States.

United States. Army--Military life.

Frontier and pioneer life--Wyoming.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Indians of North America--Wars--1866-1895.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Wyoming.

Crow Indians.

Fetterman Fight, Wyo., 1866.

Wyoming--History.

Wyoming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (397 p.)

Place of Publication:

Scituate, Mass. : Digital Scanning, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

AB-SA-RA-KA is Margaret Carrington's first-person account of westward expansion alongside her husband, Col. Henry B. Carrington. In 1866 Col. Carrington was ordered to build and defend forts along the Bozeman Trail. Margaret's detailed journals give us an eyewitness description of the fateful incidents that finally erupted in the Fetterman Massacre of 1866. The Black Hills gold rush combined with military infighting and arrogance served as the spark that set off the explosive and bloody defense of their lands by the Indian tribes. This edition of AB-SA-RA-KA is revised and expanded. It includes maps and drawings and has an Introduction by Col. Henry B. Carrington, written after his wife's death.

Contents:

Intro

FRONTIS

DEDICATION.

PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

ABSARAKA, HOME OF THE CROWS.

CHAPTER II.

ABSARAKA DESCRIBED.

CHAPTER III.

THE NATURAL HISTORY AND CLIMATE OF ABSARAKA.

CHAPTER IV.

ORGANIZATION OF THE EXPEDITION TO ABSARAKA.

CHAPTER V.

FROM FORT KEARNEY TO CROSSING OF UNION PACIFIC RAIL-ROAD

INCIDENTS OF THE PLATTE RIVER TRAVEL

REUNION OF THE OFFICERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH INFANTRY

CROSSING THE RIDICULOUS PLATTE

CHAPTER VI.

REMINISCENCES OF RANCHING, AND OLD TIMES ON THE ROUTE FROM LEAVENWORTH TO SEDGEWICK.

CHAPTER VII.

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD TO LARAMIE

COURT-HOUSE ROCK

CHIMNEY ROCK

FORTIFICATION ROCK

SCOTT'S BLUFFS

WONDERFUL FISHING

VISIT OF STANDING ELK

CHAPTER VIII.

FORT LARAMIE COUNCIL OF 1866

ITS RESULTS FORESHADOWED

THE ABORIGINES IN THE MART OF TRADE

HOW THE INDIANS DID AND DID NOT

CHAPTER IX.

LARAMIE TO RENO

CAMP PHISTERER CANON

LARAMIE PEAK

WILD FLORA

PUMPKIN BUTTES

CHAPTER X.

FORT RENO

INDIAN RAID

FORT LARAMIE TREATY TESTED

FOURTH OF JULY IN ABSARAKA

ORGANIZATION OF MOUNTAIN DISTRICT

ONWARD MOVEMENT

MORE RATTLESNAKES

MERCURY ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN DEGREES ABOVE ZERO

WHAT IT DID

CHAPTER XI.

RECONNOISSANCES

INDIAN MESSENGERS

WARNINGS

LOCATION OF FORT PHILIP KEARNEY

CONDUCT OF THE TROOPS, AND ITS CAUSE

CHAPTER XII.

ARRIVAL OF INDIANS

THE CHEYENNES IN COUNCIL

BLACK HORSE THE RABBIT THAT JUMPS, RED SLEEVE, DULL KNIFE, AND OTHERS HAVE MUCH TALK AND "HEAP OF SMOKE."

CHAPTER XIII.

MASSACRE OF LOUIS GAZZOUS' PARTY

INDIAN RAID AND GREAT LOSS OF MULES

THE CHEYENNES AGAIN

FORTY HOSTILE DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE "PEACEABLE TRIBES"

THE LARAMIE TREATY INCIDENTALLY TESTED

MASSACRE OF LIEUTENANT DANIELS

A FIGHTING PARSON

CHAPTER XIV.

CONDUCT OF THE CROW INDIANS

WHAT BRIDGER AND BECK-WITH SAY

CHAPTER XV.

VISIT OF INSPECTOR-GENERAL HAZEN

REINFORCEMENTS ON THE WAY

MOUNTED INFANTRY COMPARED WITH SIOUX LIGHT CAVALRY

UNITED STATES MAILS

CORRAL SYSTEM

TIMBER AND LUMBER SUPPLIED TO ORDER

CHAPTER XVI.

FORT PHILIP KEARNEY AND SURROUNDINGS

A PICNIC

ASCENT OF THE MOUNTAINS

LAKE SMEDT

FINE SCENERY

PLAN OF THE FORT

CHAPTER XVII.

TWO HOLIDAYS

OCTOBER INSPECTION AND REVIEW

FIRST GARRISON FLAG HOISTED IN ABSARAKA

INCIDENTS OF THE DAY

INDIAN RESPONSE TO A NATIONAL SALUTE

LOOKING-GLASSES IN ABUNDANCE

EVENING LEVEE

CHAPTER XVIII.

A DAY OF INCIDENTS

HOSTILE SIOUX AND FRIENDLY CHEYENNES

ARROW ESCAPE OF THE LATTER

OUR PICKET MIMICKED

MORE MASSACRES

CROQUET INTRODUCED INTO ABSARAKA

CHAPTER XIX.

NIGHT SCENES

CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL VISITORS

AURORA

LUNAR RAINBOW

METEORITES

INDIANS ALL IN THEIR WAR-PAINT

CHAPTER XX.

DOMESTIC, SOCIAL, AND RELIGIOUS LIFE, WITH THE EPISODES THEREIN OCCURRING

CHAPTER XXI.

INDIAN WARFARE

THINGS A WOMAN CAN LEARN WHEN SHE HAS SEEN THEM TRIED

CHAPTER XXII.

INDIAN ARMS, HABITS, AND CUSTOMS

THE ARROW BEATS THE REVOLVER

CHAPTER XXIII.

MASSACRE OF LIEUTENANT BINGHAM

ACCOUNTS GIVEN BY OFFICERS

EXTRACTS FROM JOURNAL

CHAPTER XXIV.

FETTERMAN 'S MASSACRE

ITS LESSONS.

CHAPTER XXV.

THE FUNERAL, AND BURIAL OF FOURSCORE AND ONE VICTIMS OF THE MASSACRE

COLD AND SAD HOLIDAYS

EXPEDITIONS ABANDONED

REINFORCEMENTS OF AUGUST YET BEHIND

CHAPTER XXVI.

COMEDY OF ERRORS

ENTERPRISE OF THE PRESS

TRANSACTIONS IN ABSARAKA MYSTERIOUSLY KNOWN TO THE PUBLIC BEFORE THEY HAD INFORMATION OF THE SAME

CHAPTER XXVII.

NEW YEAR'S CHANGES

MARCH TO FORT RENO

FORTY DEGREES BELOW ZERO

HOW IT FELT AND WHAT IT DID.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

FORT RENO TO FORT CASPAR

THENCE TO THE UNITED STATES

COURTESIES OF THE ROUTE

VISIT OF DIGNITARIES, MILITARY, CIVIL, AND INDIAN, AT M'PHERSON

MORE CHANGES

CHAPTER XXIX.

IN MEMORIAM

CHAPTER XXX.

OMAHA TO VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA.

CHAPTER XXXI.

INDIAN AFFAIRS ON THE PLAINS

INCIDENTS OF 1865 -7.

CHAPTER XXXII.

INCIDENTS OF 1867

INDIAN CONFERENCES.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

INDIAN AFFAIRS ON THE PLAINS-INCIDENTS, 1867 -1873.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

INCIDENTS FROM 1874 TO 1877.

CHAPTER XXXV.

INCIDENTS OF 1877

THE NEZ PERCES WAR.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

HONOR TO WHOM HONOR.

APPENDIX

APPENDIX I.-Special Senate documents on Phil Kearney massacre

APPENDIX II.-Officers killed on the Plains,1865-78

APPENDIX III.-Troops on the Plains, and disposition of the Army, May, 1878

ILLUSTRATIONS.

CROW CHIEFS

HE-HA-KA-A-NA-ZIN, STANDING ELK (DACOTAH SIOUX)

EAST VIEW OF THE NORTH PLATTE

LARAMIE PEAK, FROM THE NORTH

BATTLE DECORATION OF BUFFALO ROBE

PLAN OF FORT PHIL KEARNEY

TEPEE, OR TEPAH (INDIAN LODGE)

SURROUNDINGS OF FORT PHIL KEARNEY

LA-HIC-TA-PA-LA-SHA, PIPE CHIEF (PAWNEE)

PE-TA-LA-SHA-RA, PAWNEE CHIEF (CHOWEE BAND)

CIN-TE-GI-LE-SKA, SPOTTED TAIL AND HIS SQUAW (BRULÈ SIOUX)

RED CLOUD AND MR. BLACKMORE, OF LONDON.

Notes:

Originally published: Ab-sa-ra-ka, land of massacre: being the experience of an officer's wife on the plains. With an outline of Indian operations and conferences from 1865 to 1878. Philadelphia [etc.]: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1879.

ISBN:

1-58218-381-3

OCLC:

70768163