Old times on the upper Mississippi : the recollections of a steamboat pilot from 1854 to 1863 (1909)
Merrick, George Byron, Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Cleveland, Ohio : A.H. Clark Co. · leaf 226
ator ofthe embarkation of Shermans Battery. He there listened to thetalk of the braves who were already planning what they woulddo when the soldiers should all be withdrawn to fight the whitemans war in the South. Standing Bears own father took partin the massacre, as we called it. Standing Bear… … AT FORT RIDGELY 219 Tecump said, and the distinctions that we draw after all makelittle difference in the results. We do not have to seek very farthrough the pages of history to find instances where white menhave massacred helpless Indian women and children. A talk with Henry Standing Bear, or any…
Merrick, George Byron · River life · River boats · Pilots and pilotage · Steam-navigation · Frontier and pioneer life
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