Abstract

The lure of the Army’s newest post for Indian peoples was irresistible as the following three stories illustrate. In the first instance, a party of well-armed Indians spied a rural farmstead located not far from Fort Riley, and they advanced toward the cabin alarming the occupants.

Keywords:

• Fort Riley,
• American Indians,
• military,
• army,
• buffalo hunt,
• George Catlin,
• Comanche,
• rural,
• farmstead,
• cabin,
• bison,
• hunting,
• tradition,
• Kaw Indians,
• Kansa,
• Junction City,
• tribe,
• Confederate,
• soldiers,
• Civil War,
• Custer,
• Black Kettle's Camp,
• Fort Lyon,
• Colorado,
• wives,
• Smoky Hill River,
• First Dragoons,
• Ogden,
• Charles Schreyvogel,
• Cheyenne Expedition,
• Kiowa,
• Sioux,
• Samuel R. Curtis,
• Fort Leavenworth,
• Kansas,
• Indian Territory,
• Dog Soldiers,
• Potawatomis,
• Shawnee,
• Delaware,
• treaty,
• Arapaho,
• government,
• horses,
• captured,
• raid,
• territorial