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Having not renewed my subscription of Wild West Magazine, I was delighted to stumble across this super rare vintage issue of Sisters in Arms magazine!

Anthropologists still argue among themselves who produced this obscure 19th century magazine. One theory says that it was produced by Cherokee indians in Oklahoma in the decades after the Trail of Tears. Others believe that Cheyenne Indians who had been educated in missionary schools played an important part in it. No academic consensus has been reached yet as to why the magazine focused on such a relatively small readership as plains indian woman warriors. Some have claimed that the magazine was a hoax since only very few woman warriors would have been able even to read it. No satisfying explanation has been given yet about the unusually high quality of the printwork, especially the multy-colored magazine cover. Inside, the print is black-and-white but also here the frequent use of early photography material continues to puzzle experts.

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Bountiful DaysThe do’s and don’ts of homestead raiding


Horses, Mules and Cattle

Let’s face it: War is all about reaping glory and horses at the expense of your enemies. And not necessarily in that order. Actually, sticking to just the horses is often just fine. Many respected veterans have even made an art-form out of just stealing horses - without ever having killed an enemy. If we keep our birth rates in mind and the fact that everyday life on the prairie is already dangerous enough, that doesn't sound like a bad idea. Going for your enemy’s horses maximizes your wealth and prestige and minimizes lethal risks for you. Sorry, we're using lots of big words here to say but one simple thing: It’s way better to be alive with many horses than dead with no horses at all.

A word on four-legged animals in general might be appropriate here: As our readers will be well aware, Whites tend to have more kinds of animals than just horses. They often use mules instead of packhorses or oxen instead of draught horses. It’s a matter of personal taste if you would want to take such animals with you. Mules, let’s be honest, may be sturdy little pack animals but they are also butt-ugly and make unnerving sounds. Quite understandably, many warriors won’t expose themselves to the ridicule of their fellow warriors by adding such creatures to their herds. It should also be noted that these mules mate very eagerly and might give you even more mules than you had bargained for in the beginning. Oxen are a typical example of the soulless breeding activities of the equally soulless Whites. They are much slower than the buffalo, yield inferior hides and, what’s worst, way inferior meat. In short, a herd of oxen slows you down and gives you very little in return. Our advice is to drive off oxen only if you are reasonably sure that you won’t be attacked on your further way and if there is no better meat source at hand. If these requirements aren’t in place, you better shoot the animals on the spot.

So, the natural point of attack when dealing with a settler’s home is the corral where the settlers’ horses may be found. Experience teaches us that slow and careful sneaky action serves the purpose usually much better than brazen gallop attacks with lots of whooping and shooting. That will only unnecessarily stir up the horses and, worse still, any Whites inside their houses who will very likely take potshots at you

Weapons – a word of caution

Which brings us to the second-most important thing to grab in an attack on a homestead. But be warned, we are entering unhealthy territory here!
Most contact with settler weapons during homestead raiding will be made from the receiving end of such weapons. They won’t give you their fancy weapons – they will shoot at you with them! Even a quick search in the magazine archive illustrates what most raiding veterans have known all along: whenever horse gatherers get peppered with lead, things are going to get really ugly. That’s probably so because horse- and cattle raiding is, generally speaking, a surprisingly bloodless business. Approximately nine out of ten corral emptying actions are carried out without any incident at all. And that’s surely the chief reason why warriors tend to get a bit mad when suddenly one of their fellows gets shot out of the saddle over nothing more than a stupid little untasty cow. Our Cheyenne and Arapahoe readers have some deeply etched memories of what came off such an unnecessary loss of life thirteen years ago outside Denver City in what the Whites then quickly labeled the „Hungate Massacre“. In fact it was just the entirely understandable retributive act of smoking a trigger-happy settler and his family out of their ugly log-house and carving them up in the customary fashion afterwards. But a few moons later the Whites, under the rallying cry "remember the Hungates!" perpetrated the Sand Creek massacre.

Therefore, be warned! Settlers will shoot at you whenever they get a chance to do so. They believe they have the right to build their ugly dwellings on your very hunting grounds and they will act like people attacked in camp by the cavalry. Since bullets and arrows usually won’t go through the walls of their dwellings, only extreme caution will prevent loss of life among your war party. Settlers usually shoot through narrow holes in the walls of their dwellings and those holes are the only openings to shoot through back at them. There is absolutely no use riding to and fro in front of those small holes, hoping to place a lucky shot right through them. That’s how you lose battles.

Instead, you should carefully spot those holes from cover first and look for areas at which they can’t see from inside. Those are the areas through which you have to sneak up to the dwelling in order to get close enough to finish the settlers off. Point blank shots through those holes are as effective as dangerous. Often, more indirect tactics will be more promising. If the dwelling is built against a hillside, one should always try to get on the roof and break into the dwelling from there. Herding cattle onto the roof to make it collapse should always be given a try if the location permits. Otherwise, laying fire and smoking the inhabitants out is usually a good fallback option. However, many warriors dislike this tactic because it is likely to destroy any possible loot inside. Therefore, often more straightforward ways of breaching the walls are employed such as using your pony for kicking in the door. However, the steeply heightened risk of losing warriors in the process should always be weighed against the prospect of a quick victory.

Sometimes none of these options is feasible, especially when attacking a free-standing dwelling surrounded by open fields of fire. In such cases hard decisions have to be made. Either your war warty should try to rush the enemy with a massed assault by all warriors at the same time or you should rather abandon the raid. The intuitive way of rather cautiously approaching the dwelling while looking for whatever cover there may be on the way will probably just cause even more deaths and ultimate failure. Settlers often spend crazy amounts of ammunition on target practice and that makes them often annoyingly good shots. The second battle of Adobe Walls in the Texas Panhandle two summers ago is a telling reminder of how not to do such a raid.

Guns – be picky!

Especially the young and inexperienced ones among war parties who are often still without firearms tend to believe that any captured gun is a good catch. That’s a serious mistake. To believe that snatching a musket with a bag of lead and a powder horn turns you into a deadly gunwoman means courting disaster. Let’s be clear about this: Any gun that needs a powder horn is just totally seventeen-hundred and absolutely out of fashion. There is a reason the Whites don’t use these any more, and it’s not money (see below). They aren’t just excruciatingly slow to load, they are also cumbersome with their ramrod and require you to stand upright while reloading. That means that you can’t reload on horseback at all but only when on foot and will always make a fine target while doing so. Enough said. This may be alright for target practice outside camp or hunting but it’s nothing for war. The only advantage these old muskets have is that you can make your own bullets if you have a mold and enough lead, but there is another, much better model where you can do that also.

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The Sharps
The Sharps has been around for a generation already. It pioneered breech-loading, has tremendous punch, shoots accurately - and works with homemade cartridges (see advertisement p. 52). While older versions use paper cartridges, the newer ones use metal cartridges. We suggest you look for a metal cartridge version since the paper cartridges are a fiddly thing and turn into a complete mess whenever they should get wet. The Sharps was the gun with which the filthy buffalo hunters drove the southern herds underground.
SiA sez: Get one and perforate some buffalo hunters!


The Springfield Trapdoor

The Springfield is at present probably the most overrated gun on the prairies. It entered our world as the mother of all nasty surprises in the Hayfield an Wagonbox fights nine summers ago when we fought the “War over the Trail of Thieves”. Although we won the war in the end, we badly lost those two battles against a bunch of seemingly timid Whites who had just unwisely fired all at the same time and would still be reloading their rifles while being overrun by our charging warriors. Or so we thought. The Springfield trapdoor was our first and quite bloody encounter with fast firing breech-loading rifles. So, it's true that the Springfield caused us a bloody nose or two, but that was at a time when firing twice per minute was considered fast and most of our warriors didn't even have a gun. We live in a different world today with different guns, and the Springfield should neither be dreaded nor coveted any more. It is said to be very accurate at even 450 steps but, honestly, how many people do you know who are good enough to make use of this? When reloading, the trapdoor of the Springfield has to be opened and closed each time which makes firing slower than with the much older Sharps. And every now and then, a spent cartridge will get stuck in the chamber, usually in moments of acute danger. The gunner will then, instead of fighting his enemies, be cursing this sorry excuse of a breechloader and poking around in the chamber with a knife. Last news from the east is that this piece of junk has been made the standard weapon of the cavalry. We think that's great news. If you should ever face a cavalryman in battle, may he be armed with a Springfield - and you not!
SiA sez: Trade it for something that actually works!


The Spencer

Where the Springfield gets too much accolade, the Spencer gets too little. Much of the mayhem attributed to the Springfield in the Hayfield and Wagonbox fights actually came out the muzzles of Spencer carbines. The Spencer isn’t just a breechloader, it’s also a repeater. That means, it can fire many shots without reloading! No less than seven rounds are fed through the butt of the carbine and can then be fired off quickly. All you have to do is to quickly move the repeater back and forth at the right side between shots. The only drawback we can find with the Spencer is that the repeater is a bit heavy to operate. But for any sister who is used to butchering animals and clubbing enemies with her bare hands, that shouldn’t be a real problem. Several of us own a Spencer carbine, and we all love it! It has a good punch, sufficient accuracy and a high rate of fire.
SiA sez: Go get it, Girl!


The Henry

The Henry carbine is at least as old as the Spencer but we think it’s even better! Not only does it fire off a whooping 16 rounds without reloading, it also has a wonderfully smooth repeater. So, were some girls might find Spencer a little rough, Henry turns out to be a girl’s best friend! Just make sure to get lots of ammo, this little friend seduces you to spray lead like in a rush!
SiA sez: Henry is everybody's darling!


The Winchester

This one is the successor to the Henry, made by the same people. As you probably know, the 1866 Yellow Boy has been the most sought-after item of the last few trading seasons. If you can get one for free, consider yourself a lucky girl! There is an improved version of this, the Winchester 1873. If you grab this one, be aware that you can't use the well-known 44-40 cartridges for this one. The makers of this wonderful gun keep cranking out ever new kinds of it. As we're told, there is a brandnew one called Winchester 1876 (more on this in the tradegun review of this issue).
SiA sez: Red girl and yellow boy are the perfect match!


Shotguns

Settlers are often poorly armed which comes in handy when fighting them but not so much when looting them afterwards. Chances are, you often won't find any of the nifty rifles and carbines we have described above. Quite often, settlers are armed with double-barrel shotguns. Although they are breechloading they are more suitable for hunting than for fighting, especially because they usually lack rifled barrels. Again, if you don't own a gun yet, this is better than nothing. The barrel part needs to be snapped off the breech and bent down to reload the gun which looks as if the gun is broken. Don't let yourself be fooled by this as so many warriors in the past were who threw these guns away because of that.
SiA sez: A shotgun is better than no gun.


Ammunitions

Long gone are the days when our grandparents and parents could use any arrow with any bow and any ball with any musket. Modern bullets come in an annoyingly large number of sizes. Chances are that the bullets you find won't fit into the gun you already happen to own. But even if the bullets you find are of no use for you, why not keep them to barter them later with someone who actually can use them? Bullets are small, therefore highly portable, and valuable. In fact, that makes them pretty much like money.


Money

Speaking of which, there are still too many warriors and warrior sisters out there who are entirely oblivious to the nature and the usefulness of money. To wit, money is something small the Whites use to trade against. There are two kinds of money: Small flat circle-shaped metal pieces called „coins“ and bigger rectangular talking paper pieces, usually greenish, which are called „banknotes“. The talking paper pieces are more valuable than the metal pieces.

It is important to know the value of the different talking papers. The one with the balding Whiteman is worth one dollar. You will get about fifty bullets of the 44-40 caliber for just one of these talking papers!
The better ones have women in blankets on them. The one with the blanket woman on the left is worth five dollars- that's no less than two-hundred-fifty bullets for just one of those talking papers! There is another talking paper which has the blanket woman stripped to the waist and standing on the right. Although she is half-naked and looks rather poor, the paper is worth even more, ten dollars! That means, each of these blanket-down talking papers will get you fivehundred bullets! Now, be prepared that agency stores and gun peddlers will try to force a bad deal on you, but even if they only give you half the bullets for these talking papers, it is obvious that with just a handful of crumpled green papers you could be awash with ammunition.

We know, by now you will be biting your lips, thinking full of remorse of all those times when you played confetti with the funny green papers, gave it to the kids to adorn their mudcakes with or used it for pillow or war shield stuffing. Now, before you rush off to rip apart all the pillows in your tipi looking for those green papers, keep on reading, sister! We have got a few more handy tips for you!

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Household items – another word of caution

Once you have reached the point of grabbing a gun from the cold, dead hands of a settler, you will most likely have already forced your way into his wooden square dwelling. This is always and inevitably a moment of great exitement. A Whiteman-dwelling, with its square, non-translucent walls is a dark, unfamiliar and altogether creepy place. Indeed, apprehension or even fear might be by no means misplaced feelings at this moment since surviving Whites might still be hiding inside, and the chances are that they are armed and dangerous like a cornered coyote in its den. Therefore, before you get all distracted by the sight of lots of shiny and unfamiliar things that are just there for the taking, you always have to make sure that the place is has been cleared from dangerous aliens! But once the place is secure, the fun may begin!


Doing things in the right order

The first things all warriors do when they have killed an enemy is to count coups on his dead body, then to scalp him and finally to apply the tribal cut-marks. Additionally, it is highly advisable to disable the dead enemy befor his entry into the afterworld so that he will pose no threat to your deceased relatives. That's usually achieved by cutting off the trigger finger of his right hand and rendering him permanently immobile by cutting the sinews at the knees and ellbows. Less refined fellows will go further by severing hands, feet or whole limbs, but we think that's uneccesary butchery.

The scalping and the cut-marks are the sole privilege of the one who killed the enemy. Comversely, between three and five coups - depending on which tribe you are from - may be counted on any dead enemy on a first-come-first-served basis. Since coups render great prestige, the coup thing usually creates quite a rush and often quite prematurely so, even before the area is clear. Speaking from experience, we can say that those who make it a habit always to count coup first, are either very famous or very dead and in the long run usually both of that. Therefore, be brave but don't be foolish! Running into a Whiteman-dwelling first is something you may want to leave to the cocky male warriors around you. Going in second or third is by any means quick enough.

Assuming that your dead Whitemen lie close to the door, your next choice is whether to deal with them first or rush further to rummage among the contents of the dwelling. Here is our advice: Dead bodies usually stay in place and won't disappear in a few moments. But household goodies will! Therefore, leave the dead meat to the guys and have the guys leave the shopping to you! A coup can be counted on the run in passing, not time lost here. Yet, if you've killed an enemy, it's best just to anounce your claim to his body with a loud voice, and then to head on straight for the next shelf, trunk or wherever those Whites store they good stuff. The bodies can wait. What you have to do now is to tell the junk from the precious things and grab them before someone else does.


Little Goodies

While it's the big things that usually attract our eye first, the small things are the ones you can always take away with ease. We suggest you keep your eyes open for hand mirrors, combs and jewellery. And even if you aren't sure if you like some piece, it will almost certainly make for a nice present for someone at your homecoming. A set of wooden teeth may look like a crazy joke to you. But your toothless grandmother will probably look differently at it. A dead white child, spiked with arrows, may be without interest for you, safe for its scalp. But wouldn't your niece be pleased to play with its fancy-looking doll?


Iron tools

Yes, we know, it's bad to become dependent on tools we cannot make ourselves. No, we haven't seen a flintstone knife in a long time, and no, we also can't readily remember anyone younger than sixty who can still make them. But still, iron tools are just so... neat! And we're not just talking about knifes. Look out for those nifty small tools like pincers and little things to let your fingernails look pretty!
Cooking and eating stuff

We would like to draw your attention to a wonderous new thing most warriors don't even notice when looking at it: it's called "canned food". The Whites prepare food, mostly some kinds of fruits or vegetables and then somehow put it into a little metal barrels with fixed metal lids. These little barrels indeed look like solid pieces of metal without any sowing or glue seams and no normal person would readily assume that someone managed to put food inside. But, believe us, it is there. The little metal barrels are about two or three handwidths high and they are called "cans". The wonderous thing about them is, the food doesn't spoil inside even though it's not dry food! If you see those, grab a few and save them for later. You will need a knife or a hatchet to open the cans.

We suggest you don't waste your time and energy with Whiteman dishes, spoons, forks and the like. Many dishes and cups are made of a stuff called porcellain. It is mostly white, often painted neatly and looks like polished stone. But don't let yourself be fooled by the tough look of it. Because the only reliable thing about it is that it will break from merely using it. Sometimes even a hard stare might suffice to break it. It is, hands down, the most ridiculously useless thing the Whites have ever made, and that says a lot. We suggest you have some fun with smashing these things on the spot. But by no means should you weigh yourself down with this junk.
Metal spoons may look funny but it just feels wrong in the mouth. We suggest you stick to traditional horn and wood spoons and leave it where it is.

The same thing applies to forks (see illustration). Nobody needs a fork. It doesn't hold broth like a spoon and it doesn't spike meat as a knife does.
As for metal plates, they can be useful because you can put them into the fire without burning them. Be careful though, they get very hot when you do that.

You might also come across plates with holding sticks attached to their side. These are called pans. Some people swear they are great for making fry-bred. So, if you are into fry-bred, you might want to grab one.
Iron kettles, we know, are all the rage nowadays. Contrary to leather cooking sacks, they never get torn by camp dogs and you can also put them directly into your camp fire without worry. And, contrary to cooking sacks and water bladders, you can just put them on the ground without spilling everything. Every whiteman's house has at least one of those. But before you rush off to grab one from the homestead hearth, we ask you to think twice.

Life is dangerous. If you're old enough to be a warrior we assume you haver at least once in your life lived through a surprise attack on your camp which had you and your family running for your lifes, grabbing just a few household items on the run. Whenever the hated cavalry overruns an indian village, guess what the camp ground is always littered with afterwards. Kettles. Kettles everywhere. Kettles are made of iron. They are heavy. Worse, kettles are unwieldy. Ever tried to fold a kettle like a cooking sack or a water bladder and stuff it into a saddle bag? That's what we're talking about. Kettles are made for people living in fixed dwellings. Have you ever taken a table, a chair or an iron bed with you? We suggest you do the same thing with iron kettles.


Cloth and clothing

Whites hide their bodies under layers upon layers of clothing. That's why many of them have quite a lot of clothes. Some of those are usable, but, once again: be picky!

White clothing is dead and soulless, usually made from tiny spiderwebs instead of animal hides. But even where animal hides are used, whites always fail to recognize and honor the life energy of the animal it came from and, shamefully, they never leave any visible tail or leg parts on it, just as if it wasn't from an animal at all. Although they sometimes try to imitate our fringes, it never looks quite as good as the real deal.

Their women's dresses are generally useless, both ugly and impractical. Above the waist, they allow for way too little movement and below the waist they use way too much cloth. Often, the skirt is draped over some crazy kind of fish bone cage which makes a white woman look like growing out of some bell or a ball cut in half. They can neither work nor ride in these, they can't even sit on the ground in these. You really have to see it with your own eyes to believe it! However, the dresses are sometimes made from cloth with pretty and coloful patterns. Therefore, you might want to grab one and use the cloth for something useful later on.
Their men wear leggings which are sown together with some kind kind of rump sack inbetween instead of a breechcloth, a terribly ugly and unappealing design with, once again, very little room to move freely. Predictably, the things often rips open in the butt area. However, if you cut out the rump sack in the middle, you might get some decent leggings out of these. What's more, the better ones have have some pretty shiny cloth on the inside. Thus, they often look way better when you turn the inside out.

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As for shirts, vests or jackets, some of those might even be wearable right away. Some have beautiful shiny buttons whereas some of the shirts and jackets for women are just as body-hugging on the upper body as many of our leggings are on the legs. Combining the two can look quite spectacular! Embroidering these with quillwork, studs or beadwork will turn a piece of soulless whiteman cloth into a one-of-a-kind individual piece of loot fashion with a high trophy factor!

Whiteman footwear, on the other hand, is altogether useless. It is mostly made of whiteman-leather which isn't soft at all and a pain to wear. What's more, whiteman moccasins don't distinguish between right and left foot, guaranteeing that they won't fit any foot, ever! The whiteman leather is, however, quite water resistant. Therefore, you might want to grab a boot or two, cut the shaft off at the ankle, sow the bottom together and, voilá, you have a useful little necessities bag. Adorning it with some nice beadwork will make it even look nice.


Thinking outside the box

Whether you can read these lines on your own or need to have them read out loud to you by someone else, let's face it: The talking paper medicine may be powerful, but it's not our kind of medicine. We don't write stories down, we tell and paint them. Yet, pen and paper may still be welcome loot for the latter. Look out for ledger books with empty pages and pencils. If you look thorougly, maybe there are even crayons somewhere!

Every whiteman's dwelling has at least one wooden barrel, sometimes inside, sometimes just outside the building, the latter often for collecting rainwater. We suggest you make it a matter of routine to smash such barrels with a club or hatchet and take the iron barrel rings with you. They make for great arrow tip material.

In case the singing wire aka telegraph runs to the dwelling you are looting, you might want to take the time and climb up the poles to collect the little insulators the wire is twisted around. The ones made of green glass make for great arrow tip material as well.

Whites don't sleep beneath cozy fur hides but use white bedlinen. That can be useful for a number of purposes, i.e. tipi linings if you shouldn't have enough skins or large floor covers for open-air feasts. And, after all, by this time you will need something to tie up a rather big bag of loot, don't you?

Before you leave the place with your scalps and all the loot, singing merry war songs in unison, don't forget to raze the place! You are at war, and while all this may be fun, you're not doing it for fun! These dwellings pockmark mother earth. They scare away the game and make the land unusable for the people. Destroy what destroys you! In practice that means that you will smash whatever you haven't taken with you and then set the place on fire.

We sincerely hope these lines will be of some use for you in your further war exploits. May you become rich and famous and live long! We wish you bountiful days!

© 1876 Sisters in Arms magazine

Anovaoo’o (Falcon Woman), Sutai band, Norhern Cheyenne
Muts-i-mi-u-na (Buffalo Calf Road Woman) Omehese band, Northern Cheyenne
James Cornstalk, (editor), Cherokee

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Skalpieren war erst ein Ritual weniger Stämme das die Kolonialregierungen und später die Regierung der USA und ihre Goverments zum Geschäft gemacht haben.Halte ich auch für bedenklich.

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Original von Morning Star
Hallo Flashman,

es liegt mir nichts daran, hier eine Endlos – Diskussion zu führen, aber in den letzten Beiträgen sind doch wieder einige Dinge erwähnt, welche jeglicher Realität widersprechen bzw. falsch interpretiert werden.

Rädern der Weißen, bitte nenne mir ein kongretes historisches Beispiel, wo Weiße von den Cheyenne gerädert wurden .

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Weiterhin der Victory -Dance der Cheyenne mit aufgehangenen, abgehackten Händen nach Custer`s Niederlage. ( siehe den von dir eingestellten Link )

Die Cheyenne hatten nach der Schlacht keinen ausgedehnten Siegestanz,aufgrund der vielen eigenen Toten und Verwundeten – und Frauen haben speziell nach Little Big Horn nicht an diesem
Tanz teilgenommen ( Aussage von Wooden Leg ) Von Aufhängen abgetrennter Hände habe ich bislang noch nichts lesen können. Ferner der Begleittext unter der Zeichnung :

„ Cheyenne male two-spirits led the scalp dance, the tribe’s most important ceremony“

Der Skalptanz wird hier als die wichtigste Zeremonie der Cheyenne dargestellt- ein Witz

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Deine Darstellung des Überfalles auf die Draisine und den Zug ist ebenfalls sehr oberflächlich und unrichtig geschildert.

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Deine Beschreibung meint die Ereignisse der Nacht vom 06. zum 07. August in 1867, westlich der Plum Creek Station, Kansas. Richtig ist, die Draisine wurde zum Entgleisen gebracht und fünf der sechs darauf befindlichen Männer getötet. Der einzig Überlebende war William Thompson, ein Engländer. Nach eigenen Angaben wurde Thompson niedergeschlagen und anschließend, da für tot geglaubt, skalpiert. Thompson sagte aus, er hätte sich trotz der Schmerzen während des Skalpierens tot gestellt. Der Krieger band den Skalp an seinem Pferd an, verlor ihn aber sofort wieder, ohne es zu bemerken. Etwa zwei Stunden später wurde ein nachfolgender Zug ebenfalls zum Entgleisen gebracht, die vier Männer dieses Zuges konnten in der Dunkelheit die Gleise zurücklaufen und erreichten einen weiteren, nachfolgenden Zug nach etwa drei Meilen.
Was die Plünderung der Wagen des Zuges betrifft, die Krieger fanden Waren von Gebrauchsgütern, Werkzuge, Stoffe usw. Einige junge Krieger haben sich am frühen Morgen des nächsten Tages ( die Attacke geschah ja in der Nacht ) einen Spass daraus gemacht, einige Tücher oder Stoffe an die Pferde zu binden und damit zu reiten. Ein allerdings eher kurzes Vergnügen, weil man in der Folge beschäftigt war, die erbeuteten Waren fortzuschaffen. Von einem Trinkgelage ist nichts überliefert, aber die damalige Propagandapresse hat seinerzeit schon entsprechend berichtet.
William Thompson konnte damals ebenfalls in dieser Nacht entkommen und überlebte.

Ich vermisse bei deiner Darstellung eine kurze historische Darstellung des historischen Hintergrundes des Jahres 1867,

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stattdessen werden die Indianer hier die Cheyenne, als blutrünstige Wilde hingestellt, trinkend, mordend und plündernd.

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Was die Kriegerfrauen betrifft, bei den Cheyenne gab es nur eine wirkliche Kriegerfrau, diese war Buffalo Calf Woman ( wird oft mit Buffalo Calf Road Woman verwechselt ) Letztere war für mich keine typische Kriegerfrau, sie führte ein normales Familienleben und hat an lediglich drei Tagen selbst gekämpft, wobei die ersten zwei „Kampfeinsätze“ nicht vorsätzlich, sondern aus der jeweiligen Situation heraus entstanden.

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Original von FeelingCrowWoman

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Original von Flashman
Du glücklicher, ich bin wohl immer noch nicht reich genug, um mir mal den Powell zu leisten, der ist ja wirklich ne Vermögensverschiebung, wenn man den sich mal antiquarisch besorgen will...

Hallo,

hier gibt es das Buch für £60.25 ----- allerdings gebraucht

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/00645…TF8&me=&seller=

LG
FeelingCrowWoman