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THE OLD WEST Fortsätter med lite indianshistoria runt Lakota indianerna ute på prärien. Det rör sig mycket om det två hövdingarna Amerikan Horse den yngre och den äldre. Jag försöker att inte

blanda in politik i mitt kåseri men jag kan inte

låta bli i detta fall. Det är för mig ofattbart att man fortfarande väljer att köra över minoritets-folken i USA. Nu rev den s.k. nya presidenten upp avtalet som var tecknat av tidigare administration och flyttade tillbaka dragningen av den nya oljeledningen över helig mark vid Standing Rock i USA. Detta hände bara dagar efter att

man sagt att nu skulle makten tillbaka till

folket och alla skall få komma till tals.

Från början var det tänkt att man skulle dra ledningen där över men protester och andra aktiviteter gjorde att man flyttade ledningen. Då kunde man visat sig stor och behållit detta beslut, men icke. Så vad som hände för 150 år sedan händer idag också. Beklagligt och mina

Howdy Citizens! tankar går till mina indianbröder där borta.

Då närmar sig en ny säsong med stormsteg och jag kan tänka mig att alla är spända på HIGH CHAPARRALL vad som hänt i den småländska vilda Naturligtvis längtar jag till första under vinterhalvåret. öppningslördagen i parken för då skall jag gå till Kates och ta kl-11 ölen som är en gammal Alltid lika spännande att se hur många sedvänja. Sitta där och insupa den härliga medborgare vi blir inför den nya säsongen. Nu öppnings-atmosfären blir en härlig start. har man justerat avgiften för medborgarna och Detta nummer innehåller ju även en hel del det kan ju påverka en del beslut. bilder på många av alla härliga medborgare och För att få till den rätta skrivar andan har jag snart så träffas vi igen, så ha en bra fortsatt satt på Western Musik med Ennio Moricone vår. // Red som gör att man får till den rätta känslan.

Jag hoppas ni alla har haft en bra start på det nya året och ni har funnit ett sätt att få till lite western känsla under de mörka månaderna. Man har ju alltid möjlighet att kolla lite film eller lyssna på en o annan westernlåt. Hoppas någon tog sig ann min utmaning från förra numret och skapat er lilla western dag.

KLÄDMODE

På klädfronten har jag väl hittat några kläder och något kul tillbehör i de butiker jag brukar besöka . Svårt annars att hitta gammalt, men ibland har man lite tur.

I detta nummer har jag kollat lite på herrmode, och då med focus på lite finare klädsel. Jag har försökt vaska fram några gamla bilder från en svunnen tid. Målet denna gång är på skjortor o slipsar, där man kan se att det finns många varianter.

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En DAG I WESTERN

SENSUR! Icke tidstypiska saker De gamla telefonstolparna plockades ner, skickades till High Chaparalls speciella

sågverk och kom tillbaka som plank o brädor till en helt ny fantastisk fasad. I förra numret var det bara rent trä, men nu har det kommit på lite färg. Fantastiskt snyggt. Detta kanske kunde blivit en plats för nästa medborgarbild med oss utspridda över hela vägen.

Movie Ranch Man får känslan av en hederlig Movie Ranch där gamla westerns spelades in.

En annan variant av den gamla härliga saloonshowen kan ses på gatan utanför Kates. Skönsjungande damer som även kan sprattla med benen. Jag lyckades även fånga dom när dom var på turné i parken. Lika fagra från alla håll o vinklar.

Utanför Medborgarstugan är det oftast välbesökt. Här kan man ju ta sig en kopp kaffe eller kolla in lite kläder o prylar som medborgare säljer. Finns alltid något att hitta.

Då har jag lyckat hitta en kamera som lägger in krutrök i mitten på bilderna, eller är det andar från en svunnen tid jag lyckats fånga på bild. Många westernhjältar trotsade den lite regniga dagen under rendezvous. Denna nya grupp av ”Red Banners” ser man lite då och då smyga fram längs med gatorna, undrar om dom är besläktade med dom ökända ”Red Legs” från inbördeskriget. Runt 1862 skapade general Thomas Ewing organisationen Kansas ”Red Legs” för att bevaka gränsen mellan Missouri och Kansas mot konfederationens gerilla förband som

gjorde räder in i Kansas. Styrkan var som

mest 100 man. Man hade röda eller

ljusbrunfärgade leggings av läder.

En våffla i Kristinastugan är aldrig fel, men som jag sagt innan, håll huvudet lågt.

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Stuart

Whitman

Stuart Whitman född 1-februari 1928 i . En skådespelare känd för sina robusta roller I filmerna. Han började med en

mängd biroller i flera filmer och man såg efter hand hans förmåga och han fick en rad framstående roller.

Han spelade med i en av de första western äventyren som jag såg som liten. Det var serien Simmaron Strip

som kom 1967. Kommer ihåg att det kommenterades han sätt att rida då han hade en

bakåtlutande stil och inte upprätt eller framåtlutande. Har bara valt ut dom westernfilmer där han haft en framträdande roll och

hoppat över dom filmer med bara en mindre biroll. Denna såg man i svart vitt.

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John Wayne som alltid är bra naturligtvis, är med i denna bra rulle om dom ökända Comancheros. ( Comancheros var namnet på oftast vita som handlade med indianerna och sålde både vapen och sprit). Stuart spelar den tvångs värvade

Texas Rangern Paul Regrett

En bra Rulle : Här även med som den hämndlystne gamle sydstataren, vars fru och barn blivit dödade av indianerna.

En film jag inte sett så jag kan inte kommentera den. Den finns upplagd på

You Tube så jag tänkte se den en dag framöver. WESTERN HEROS FROM THE SCREEN

Sheriff Jim Crown råkar ut för allehanda olika händelser i staden Cimarron. Man gjorde 23 avsnitt som vardera varade i 72 minuter.

Klart sevärd serie och jag

blev själv såld på hans

revolver som ter sig blank som om den var kromad och pipan ser ut att var längre än 7,5 tum

Filmen Cimarron med Glen Ford, som inte är lika action fylld som denna serie, är

också baserad på samma landområde.

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Cimarron Strip is a lavish American Western television series starring Stuart Whitman as Marshal Jim Crown. The series was produced by the creators of Gunsmoke and aired on CBS from

September 1967 to March 1968. Reruns of the original show were aired in the summer of 1971. is one of only three 90-minute weekly Western series that aired during the (the others are The Virginian and, for one season, Wagon Train), and the only 90-minute series of any kind to be centered primarily around one lead character in every episode. The series theme and pilot incidental music was written by Maurice Jarre, who also scored Lawrence of Arabia and

Doctor Zhivago.

The series is set in the late 1880s in the Cimarron Territory, which would become the Oklahoma Panhandle in 1890. For complex historical reasons, this rugged strip of land existed as a virtually ungoverned U.S. territory for several decades. It was sometimes called No Man's Land, with a reputation for lawlessness and vigilante activity. On the show, Marshal Jim Crown is trying to bring

order to the region before its political status is finally resolved.

The Cherokee Outlet across the Cimarron River was the last free homestead land in America. It was leased and controlled by cattlemen, and the newly arriving farmers were expecting authorities in Washington to send news that they would be given rights to the land, for which they had been campaigning. U.S. Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman), who led a rather wild life and had cleaned

up Abilene, was assigned to the town of Cimarron. He arrives to find that the sheriff has resigned, leaving Crown on his own to settle the increasing unrest caused by the news he brings, that the cattlemen's leases have been revoked and a final decision on the land is postponed indefinitely. With no sheriff and no support from Army troops, Crown is on his own to keep law and order in this borderland between the Kansas Territory and Indian Territory.

Dulcey Coopersmith (Jill Townsend), born in England in 1869, arrives in Cimarron City on the

same train as Marshal Crown, two months after her mother's death in Providence. Dulcey worked as an upstairs maid and traveled to Cimarron to be with her father she had not seen since the age of five, only to discover he had been killed by a beer wagon. Her father's partner was MacGregor (Percy Herbert), a Scotsman, who had let the Wayfarer's Inn fall into disrepair. He was a retired Colonel in Her Majesty's (Queen Victoria) forces. Another friend of Dulcey's father was Francis

Wilde (Randy Boone), born in St. Louis and trying to make his way in the world as a reporter and photographer.

Från filmen Comancheros där

Texas Rangers försöker avvärja en attack från dessa banditer. Inget klår väl när

John Wayne skall uttala det franska ordet monsieur

Det blir ungefär missör. Stuart ses här i röd kavaj o krås skjorta. En sån skjorta jagar jag själv. Tycker dom e riktigt fräcka.

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Fagra damer i härliga kreationer lyfter alltid atmosfären i parken.

Köper ni era kläder eller syr ni själva? Skulle vara intressant att veta.

Kvinnor har ju en stor möjlighet att hänga på sig många olika tillbehör som å andra sidan kan vara

svåra att få tag på.

Man kan hitta en del i välsorterade second hand butiker.

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Vad har dessa härliga trappers gemensam med det fräna loket nedan?

Jo det kan komma en rejäl rökpuff ur pipan. 

En fantastisk dag på HC med lagom värme, såna dagar är få, men just denna dag var perfekt.

Det gröna loket ännu utan front-guard tuffar

fram i den härliga

western solen.

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I väntan på att stugan skall öppna

så man kan få sig en kopp kaffe. Det går natu rligtvis att ta sig en kopp med tidsenlig mugg på något annat cool ställe som Kates där jag nu

har kommit upp mig lite

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Passar på att ta mig en tur med hjulångaren till Mexico, och på båten

träffar jag både Kapten Jens och fagra

Maria som jag språkar en stund med. Mycket trevligt.

México: År 1521 erövrade och koloniserade Spanien territoriet och administrerade det som vicekonungadömet Nya Spanien som så småningom skulle bli Mexiko då kolonin blev självständig år 1821. Efter självständigheten präglades den

följande perioden av ekonomisk instabilitet, territoriell utbrytning och inbördeskrig, inklusive utländska interventioner av två imperier och två långa inhemska diktaturer.

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Den sista helgen i parken är det ju fest och dags för artisternas avslutnings shower, vilka alltid brukar vara väldigt bra.

Många medborgare och

anställda samlas för att ta del av arenans show, och den krönes med ett fantastiskt stunthopp från högre höjd än vanligt. Själv hade jag knappt dykt från 2 meter.

Vill ni se meeer?

Det annars 12m höga fallet är nog närmare 20 nu.

Westerngatan ligger öde så här sista dagen och vemodet sprider sig bland många och hur skall man klara sig till nästa säsong.

Men det går fort och i mellan perioden får man hitta egna sätt att bibehålla westernkänslan. Adventskalendern från parken är ju ett sätt. Läsa Gazetten är ett annat. Man kan också

börja tälja på en revolver i trä vilket nog kan ta sin tid om man börjar med ett rejält träd  Virka en sjal går också bra.

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Här fortsätter storyn om lakota Indianerna och då främst om de två hövdingarna .

Fortsättningen här kommer att handla om American Horse den äldre som mötte sitt öde i ett av slagen efter Little Big Horn. Luta er tillbaka och läs om en av alla de mörka perioderna i erövrandet av en hel kontinent. Hoppas det går bra med lite engelska.

The Smoke People Chief American Horse was a son of Old Chief Smoke. Old Chief Smoke was an Lakota

head chief and one of the last great Shirt Wearers , a highly prestigious Lakota warrior society. The Smoke People were one of the most prominent Lakota families of the 18th and 19th centuries. Old Chief Smoke was one of the first Lakota chiefs to appreciate the power of the whites, their overwhelming numbers and the futility of war. He appreciated the need for association and learned the customs of the whites. Old Chief Smoke had five wives who bore him many children.[1] Old

Chief Smoke’s sons carried the Smoke People legacy of leadership in Oglala Lakota culture into the early 20th century. The children of Old Chief Smoke were Spotted Horse Woman, Chief (1822-1869), Chief Blue Horse (1822 -1908), Chief (1822-1909), Chief American Horse (1830-1876), Chief Bull Bear III, Chief Solomon Smoke II, Chief No Neck and Woman Dress (1846-1920

Treaty of Ft. Laramie 1868 Chief American Horse was one of the principal war chiefs allied with and Red Cloud during Red Cloud's War (1866-1868). American Horse was a signatory to the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, along with Chief Red Cloud and Chief Blue Horse, his brothers. The treaty was an agreement between the and the Lakota Nation guaranteeing the Lakota ownership of

the “Paha Sapa“ and land and hunting rights in , Wyoming and Montana. The Powder River Country was to be henceforth closed to all whites. The Treaty ended Red Cloud's War. A month or so after the Treaty of 1868, four "Ogle Tanka Un" (Shirt Wearers, or war leaders) were chosen: Crazy Horse, American Horse, Young-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses and Man That Owns a Sword.

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Crook’s Horsemeat March Crook’s "Horsemeat March” marked the beginning of one of the most grueling marches in American military history. Crook’s command consisted of about 2,200 men: 1,500 cavalry, 450 infantry, 240 Indian scouts, and a contingent of civilian employees, including 44 white scouts and packers. Crook’s civilian scouts included Frank Grouard, Baptiste “Big Bat” Pourier, Baptiste “Little Bat” Garnier, Captain Jack Crawford and Charles “Buffalo Chips” White. News of the defeat of at the Battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25 and 26, 1876, arrived in the East as the U.S. was observing its centennial. The American public was dismayed and called to punish the . On August 26, 1876, with his men rationed for fifteen days, a determined General Crook departed from the Powder River and headed east toward the Little Missouri pursuing the Indians. Crook feared that Indians would scatter to seek game rather than meet the soldiers in combat after the fight with Custer. All other commanders had withdrawn from pursuit, but Crook resolved to teach the Indians a lesson. He meant to show that neither distance, bad weather, the loss of horses nor the absence of rations could deter the U.S. Army from following its enemies to the bitter end. War correspondents with national newspapers fought alongside General Crook and reported the campaign by telegraph. Correspondents embedded with Crook were Robert Edmund Strahorn for , Chicago Tribune and the Rocky Mountain News; John F. Finerty for the Chicago Times; Reuben Briggs

Davenport for New York Herald and Joe Wasson for the New York Tribune and Alta California (San Francisco).

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Chief American Horse at Slim Buttes

The Battle of Slim Buttes was fought on September 9 and 10, 1876, in the between the and the Sioux. The Battle of Slim Buttes was the first U.S. Army victory after Custer’s defeat at the Battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25 and 26, 1876, in the -1877. Brigadier General George R. Crook , one of the U.S. Army’s ablest Indian fighters led the “Horsemeat March”, one of the most grueling military expeditions in American history destroying Oglala Chief American Horse’s village at Slim Buttes and repelling a counter-attack by Crazy Horse. The American public was fixed on news of the defeat of General George Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn; and war correspondents with national newspapers fought alongside General Crook and reported the events. The Battle of Slim Buttes signaled a series of punitive blows that ultimately broke Sioux armed resistance to reservation captivity and forced their loss of the Black Hills “Paha Sapa“.

The Village

Following the Battle of the Little Big Horn , Lakota leaders split up, each doing what they thought best for their people. Most were heading back to the reservations. On September 9, 1876, Chief American Horse’s camp of 37 lodges, about 260 people, of whom 30 to 40 were warriors, was attacked and destroyed by General at the Battle of Slim Buttes [

Chief American Horse’s camp was a rich prize. “It was the season when the wild plums ripen. All the agency Sioux were drifting back to the agencies with their packs full of dried meet, buffalo tongues, fresh and dried buffalo berries, wild cherries, plums and all the staples and dainties which tickled the Indian palate.” he lodges were full of furs and meat, and it seemed to be a very rich village. Crook destroyed food, seized three or four hundred ponies, arms and ammunition, furs and blankets. In a dispatch written for the Omaha Daily Bee, Captain Jack Crawford described the cornucopia he encountered: “Tepees full of dried meats, skins, bead work, and all that an Indian’s head could wish for.” Of significance, troopers recovered items from the Battle of Little Bighorn, including a guidon from Company I, fastened to the lodge of Chief American Horse, and the bloody gauntlets of slain Captain . “One of the largest of the lodges, called by Grouard the “Brave Night Hearts,” supposedly occupied by the guard, contained thirty saddles and equipment. One man found eleven thousand dollars in one of the tipis. Others found three 7th Cavalry horses; letters written to and by 7th Cavalry personnel; officers’ clothing; a large amount of cash; jewelry; government-issued guns and ammunition."

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Chief American Horse’s Defiance On September 9, 1876, Chief American Horse 's village at Slim Buttes was assaulted in a dawn attack by Captain Anson Mills and 150 troopers. At the onset of a stampede of Indian ponies and cavalry charge, Chief American Horse with his family of three warriors and about twenty-five women and children retreated into one of the ravines that crisscrossed the village amongst the tipis.

The winding dry gully was nearly 20 feet deep and ran some 200 yards back into a hillside. Trees and brush obstructed the view of the interior. “We found that some of the Indians had got into a cave at one side of the village. One of the men started to go past that spot on the hill, and as he passed the place he and his horse were both shot. This cave or dugout was down in the bed of a dry creek. The Indian children had been playing there, and dug quite a hole in the bank, so that it made more of a cave than anything else, large enough to hold a number of people.” Troopers were alerted about the ravine when Private John Wenzel, Company A, Third Cavalry, became the first army fatality at Slim Buttes when he ill-advisedly approached the ravine from the front and a Sioux bullet slammed into his forehead. Wenzel’s horse was also shot and killed. An attempt was made to dislodge the Indians and several troopers were wounded. “Grouard and Big Bat Pourier crept close enough to the banks of the ravine to parley with the concealed Indians in endeavors to get them to surrender. But the savages were so confident of succor from Crazy Horse and his much larger force, who were encamped only a dozen miles to the west, and to whom they had sent runners early in the morning, that they were defiant to the last.” The Souix felt no urgent need to surrender, for they defiantl y yelled over to the soldiers that more Sioux camps were at hand and their warriors would soon come to free them. Chief American Horse, anticipating relief from other villages, constructed a dirt breastworks in front of the cave and geared for a stout defense.

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General Crook at the Ravine

On September 9, 1876, General Crook’s relief column endured a forced march of twenty-miles to Slim Buttes in about four hours and a half hours arriving at 11:30 a.m.

The whole cheering command entered the valley, and the village teemed with activity like an anthill which had just been stirred up. Crook immediately established his headquarters and set up a field hospital in one of the Indian lodges. Crook inventoried the camp and the booty. The camp hel d thirty-seven lodges. A three- or four-year-old girl was discovered, but no bodies were found. Over 5,000 pounds of dried meat was found and was a “God-send” for the starved troopers. Troopers separated the stores to be saved from the greater number to be destroyed, and the remaining tipis were pulled down. General Crook then turned his full attention to Chief American Horse and his family in the ravine.

While General Crook had been an adversary in the field of combat, he had also been a man of honor and an advocate for Indians.

“Crook, exasperated by the protracted defense of the hidden Sioux, and annoyed at the casualties inflicted among his men, formed a perfect cordon of infantry and dismounted cavalry around the Indian den. The soldiers opened upon it an incessant fire, which made the surrounding hills echo back a terrible music.” “The circumvalleted Indians distributed their shots liberally among the crowding soldiers, but the shower of close-range bullets from the later terrified the unhappy squaws, and they began singing the awful Indian death chant. The papooses wailed so loudly, and so piteously, that even not firing could not quell their voices. General Crook ordered the men to suspend operations immediately, but dozens of angry soldiers surged forward and had to be beat back by officers. “Neither General Crook nor any of his officers or men suspected that any women and children were in the gully until their cries were heard above the volume of fire poured upon the fatal spot.” Grouard and

Pourier, who spoke Lakota, were ordered by General Crook to offer the women and children quarter. This was accepted by the besieged, and Crook in person went into the mouth of the ravine and handed out one tall, fine looking woman, who had an infant strapped to her back. She trembled all over and refused to liberate the General’s hand. Eleven other squaws and six papooses were taken out and crowded around Crook, but the few surviving warriors refused to surrender and savagely re-commenced the fight.

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"Rain of Hell"

Chief American Horse refused to leave, and with three warriors, five women and an infant, remained in the cave. Exasperated by the increasing casualties in his ranks, Crook directed some of his infantry and dismounted cavalry to form across the opening of the gorge. On command, the troopers opened steady and withering fire on the ravine which sent an estimated 3,000 bullets among the warriors. Finerty reported, “Then our troops reopened with a very ‘rain of hell’ upon the infatuated braves, who, nevertheless, fought it out with Spartan courage, against such desperate odds, for nearly two hours. “Such matchless bravery electrified even our enraged soldiers into a spirit of chivalry, and General Crook, recognizing the fact that the unfortunate savages had fought like fiends, in defense of wives and children, ordered another suspension of hostilities and called upon the dusky heroes to surrender. Strahorn recalled the horror of the ravine at Slim Buttes. The yelling of Indians, discharge of guns, cursing of soldiers, crying of children, barking of dogs, the dead crowded in the bottom of the gory, slimy ditch, and the shrieks of the wounded, presented the most agonizing scene that clings in my memory of Sioux warfare.”

Surrender of Chief American Horse

When matters quieted down, Frank Grouard and Baptiste “Big Bat” Pourier asked American Horse again if they would come out of the hole before any more were shot, telling them they would be safe if they surrendered. After a few minutes deliberation, the chief, American Horse, a fine looking, broad-chested Sioux, with a handsome face and a neck like a bull, showed himself at the mouth of the cave, presenting the butt end of his rifle toward the General. He had just been shot in the abdomen, and said in his native language, that he would yield if the lives of the warriors who fought with him were spared. Chief American Horse had been shot through the bowels and was holding his entrails in his hands as he came out and presented the butt end of his rifle to General Crook. Pourier recalled that he first saw American Horse kneeling with a gun in his hand, in a hole on the side of the ravine that he had scooped out with a butcher knife.

Two of the squaws were also wounded. Eleven were killed in the hole. Grouard recognized Chief American Horse, but you would not have thought he was shot from his appearance and his looks, except for the paleness of his face. He came marching out of that death trap as straight as an arrow. Holding out one of his blood -stained hands he shook hands with me. When Chief American Horse presented the butt end of his rifle, General Crook, who took the proffered rifle, instructed Grouard to ask his name. The Indian replied in Lakota, American Horse.” Some of the soldiers who lost their comrades in the skirmish shouted, “No quarter!’, but not a man was base enough to attempt shooting down the disabled chief. Crook hesitated for a minute and then said,‘Two or three Sioux, more or less, can make no difference. I can yet use them to good advantage. "Tell the chief,“ he said turning to Grouard, "that neither he nor his young men will be harmed further.This message having been interpreted to Chief American Horse, he beckoned to his surviving followers, and two strapping Indians, with their long, but quick and graceful stride, followed him out of the gully. The chieftain’s intestines protruded from his wound, but a squaw, his wife perhaps, tied her shawl around the injured part, and then the poor, fearless savage, never uttering a complaint, walked slowly to a little camp fire, occupied by his people about 20 yards away, and sat down among the women and children

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Crazy Horse Attacks

Crazy Horse attempted to rescue American Horse and his family. Indians who escaped Mills’ early morning assault spread the word to nearby Lakota and Cheyenne camps, and informed Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull and other leaders they were attacked by 100-150 soldiers. Crazy Horse immediately assembled 600-800 warriors and rode about ten miles northward to rescue Chief American Horse and recover ponies and supplies. During the afternoon Chief American Horse and some of the squaws informed Gen. Crook, through the scouts, that Crazy Horse was not far off, and that we would certainly be attacked before nightfall. In anticipation of that afternoon tea party which was promised to be given by Crazy Horse, Crook deployed his forces to give that chieftain the surprise of his life.

Concealing the major portion in the ravine in up-to-the-minute readiness and eagerness for an attack, he deployed just enough of the boys in plain sight to carry out the impression, which the Indian couriers had conveyed to Crazy Horse, that only about a hundred soldiers would be found to oppose his eager and confident large reinforcements. As a grave was being dug for Private Wenzel, and the starved troopers were ready to dine on captured bison meat, rifle shots were heard from the bluffs above and around the camp. Crook immediately ordered the village to be burned. Then followed the most spectacular and tragically gripping and gratifying drama of the whole Sioux War, enacted with a setting and view for those of us in the ambushing corps that could not be improved upon. The huge amphitheater, leading from our position in the front orchestra row, up over a gradually rising terrain to the rim of the hills which surrounded on three sides, was not unlike the situation which Crazy Horse had chosen for his Battle of the Rosebud . Finerty tells how the Indians attacked. “Like the Napoleonic cuirassiers at Waterloo, they rode along the line looking for a gap to penetrate. They kept up perpetual motion encouraged by a warrior, doubtless Crazy Horse himself, who, mounted on a fleet, white horse, galloped around the array and seemed to possess the power of ubiquity. Strahorn reported, “Suddenly the summits seemed alive with an eager, expectant and gloating host of savages who dashed over and down the slope, whooping and recklessly firing at every jump.”

Crazy Horse was surprised to find American Horse’s village massed with Crook's main column of over 2,000 infantry, artillery, cavalry and scouts. Crazy Horse so little dreamed of the heavy reinforcements of Captain Mills’ small band that, in the utmost confidence of

‘eating us alive’ he launched his followers right down upon the front and flanks of our splendid defensive position. They were permitted to approach with blood curdling whoops and in a savage array within easy and sure -fire rifle range before the order to fire was given. They reacted to the deadly shock in a manner that was the real beginning of the end of the Sioux War, so far as any major performance of Crazy Horse was concerned. Bewildered and demoralized by the well-aimed volleys of our two-thousand guns, they dashed for cover in every direction, closely followed by details of our boys who were allotted that much-sought privilege. Failing to break into that formidable circle, the Indians, after firing several volleys, their original order of battle being completely broken, and recognizing the folly of fighting such an outnumbering force any longer, glided away from our front with all possible speed. As the shadows came down into the valley, the last shots were fired and the affair at Slim Buttes was over.

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Casualties Captain Mills reported the assault: It is usual for commanding officers to call special attention to acts of distinguished courage, and I trust the extraordinary circumstances of calling on 125 men to attack, in the darkness, and in the wilderness, and on the heels of the late appalling disasters to their comrades, a village of unknown strength, and in the gallant manner in which they executed everything requited of them to my entire satisfaction.” U.S. Army casualties were relatively light with a loss of 30 men: 3 killed, 27 wounded , some seriously. Because the Lakota and Cheyenne warriors maintained a distance of five to eight hundred yards, and consistently fired their weapons high, casualties were few. Those who died in the field were Private John Wenzel, Private Edward Kennedy and Scout Charles “Buffalo Chips” White.” Private Kennedy, Company C, Fifth Cavalry, had half the calf of his leg blown away in a barrage, and throughout the night medical personnel labored to save his life. Private Kennedy and Chief American Horse died in the surgeons’ lodge that evening. Lt. Von Luettwitz had his shattered leg amputated above the knee and Private John M. Stevenson of Company I, Second Cavalry, received a severe ankle wound at the ravine. “The Indians must have lost quite heavily. Several of their ponies, bridled but riderless, were captured during the evening. Indians never abandon their war ponies, unless they happen to be surprised or killed. Pools of blood were found on the ledges of the bluffs, indicating where Crazy Horse’s warriors paid the penalty of their valor with their lives.” Reports of Indian casualties varied, and many bodies were carried away. Sioux confirmed casualties were at least 10 dead, and an unknown number wounded. About 30 Sioux men, women and children were in the ravine with Chief

American Horse when the firefight began, and 20 women and children surrendered to Crook. Ten individuals remained in the ravine during the “Rain of Hell” and five were killed; Iron Shield, three women, one infant and Chief American Horse who died that evening. The rest were made prisoners. Charging Bear resisted most desperately and was finally dragged out of his lair at the bottom of the deep gully with only one cartridge left. Taken prisoner, he soon after enlisted with General Crook, exhibiting great prowess and bravery on behalf of his new leader and against his former comrades.

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Death of American Horse Chief American Horse was examined by the two surgeons. One of them pulled the chief’s hands away, and the intestines dropped out. Tell him he will die before next morning,” said the surgeon. The surgeons worked futilely to close his stomach wound, and Chief American Horse refused morphine, preferring to clench a stick between his teeth to hide any sign of pain or emotions, and thus he bravely and stolidly died. Chief American Horse lingered until 6:00 a.m. and confirmed that the tribes were scattering and were becoming discouraged by war. He appeared satisfied that the lives of his squaws and children were spared.” Dr. Valentine McGillycuddy, who attended the dying chief, said that he was cheerful to the last and manifested the utmost affection for his wives and children. American Horse’s squaws and children were allowed to remain on the battleground after the dusky hero’s death, and subsequently fell into the hands of their own people. Even “Ute John” respected the cold clay of the brave Sioux leader, and his corpse was not subjected to the scalping process. Crook was most gentle in his assurances to all of them that no further harm should come if they went along peacefully, and it only required a day or two of kind treatment to make them feel very much at home.

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Något som ofta är uppe för diskussion är klädmodet och typ av kläder. Idag har jag tittat lite på modet runt finskjortor o slipsar. Det är ju en del diskussioner emellanåt hur såg skjortorna ut, och hur såg slipsarna ut . Jag har här hittat lite bilder på gentlemän i olika kreationer som jag här visar och man kan väl säga att det fans en hel del variationer.

Bilden på den här

gentlemannen är från 1865. Skjortan är en mer traditions lik modell med nedvikt krage och slipsen ser ut att vara lite randig o rutig.

Vad jag också tycker är spännande är att det är lite olika material på kragen på lång kavajen, vilket jag ibland har hittat på vanliga lite kortare kavajer i sekond hand

affärer. Det ena materialet är lite glansigare.

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Här ett foto på en man från 1865 som hette Verney Lovett. Han har en typ randig skjorta med antingen fluga eller kravatt. Skjortkragen är en nedvikt krage. Här kan man också se en krage på kavajen med dubbla material.

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Det fans till och med modekataloger på den gamla goda tiden här ca 1865. Man ser även modet på de ritade personerna med väldigt små händer o fötter. Bilden på nästa sida är från 1870 och visar skjorta både nedvikt och stående krage med snibb. Både medel långa kavajer och något kortare fanns att köpa. Både randiga o rutiga brallor. Polisonger verkar vara ett hett mode vid denna tid. THE OLD WEST

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Senator Powell 1872

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Här kommer ett antal bilder som visar olika skjortor och mode på slipsar och olika typer av halskreationer. Bilderna är från 1873. Man hade även gigantiska polisonger på en del håll.

Man ser också tidens mode att inte titta in i kameralinsen. Om man kastar ett getöga (vilka kan vara svåra att få tag på) på de olika kavajernas slag så ser man här massor med variationer.

Men vi kan ju konstatera att det fans en hel del olika skjortalternativ att ha till lite finare tillställningar eller vid ett besök i stan. Man såg också ganska allvarlig ut och det berodde väl på den tidens fototeknik mm. Det är dyrt så var stilla och allvarlig. THE OLD WEST

Med mitt norra öga ser jag också ett antal slipsnålar vilket jag skall kolla om jag inte kan hitta mig några. Detta kan ju vara ett kul tillbehör för oss män. Man har också olika västar i förhållande till kavajerna. I någon tidsperiod kom det ju att kavaj o väst skall vara av samma tyg o snitt, men här ser man både enfärgat o mönstrat. Vi kan också se på västarna att det är olika typer med hög o låg skärning. Vad man kan konstatera i alla fall är att herrmodet har hållit sig ganska likt under många år. Till nästa gång skall jag hitta lite kvinnliga varianter, kanske dyka på djupet bland hängslen o livremmar. Kanske vardagsklädseln som man hade då man inte stilade som på dessa bilder. Men det är svårt att hitta vardagskläder då få fotografer jobbade på fältet. THE OLD WEST

Den här krulliga gentlemannen fastnade på bild 1875 och jag gillar stilen på hans glasögon vilket är ett av de svåraste tillbehören att hitta. Man skall ju helst kunna se genom glasen och lämna in gamla bågar för att glasa om är inte heller lätt. Klänningen på nästa sida är från1870 får avsluta modesektionen och bli en liten treat till våra kvinnor. THE OLD WEST

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