Bold Rally
Against the Odds at Fort Lancaster By Wayne R. Austerman
On December 26, 1867, Kickapoo raiders were poised to strike the old post on the Texas frontier, but the black troopers of Company K, 9th Cavalry, were ready for action... [read
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Discussion The Mountain Meadows Massacre, one of the more gruesome and controversial events in the Old West, occurred in southwest Utah Territory in September 1857. Attackers struck a wagon-train party of about 135 emigrants and later slaughtered all who were still alive, except for the 17 youngest children. Who is most to blame for the massacre? Mormon high officials including Brigham Young? Many Mormon officials but not Young? John D. Lee, the only Mormon convicted of the murders? Local Paiute Indians? Mormons and Paiutes working together? The emigrants for their flagrant anti-Mormon remarks and activities? The United States government for sending an extensive armed expedition to Utah Territory? Log onto our online Discussion Forum!
The federal expedition into Utah Territory in 1857-58, which pitted President
James Buchanan's U.S. Army against Brigham Young's Nauvoo Legion,
was largely a bloodless affair, but misjudgments, embarrassments and expenses
abounded.
Known as buffalo soldiers, though they did not use that term themselves, the black servicemen who saw duty in the Wild West generally had the same burdens and privileges as their white counterparts.
At Fort Duchesne, black 9th Cavalry troops served alongside white infantrymen while dealing with the sometimes restless Ute Indians and the wild and woolly Duchesne Strip.
A former slave and former chaplain for the black 24th infantry teamed up with a gifted black teacher named William Payne to create a colony of opportunity.
He was by Billy the Kid's side when Sheriff William Brady was killed and when Alexander McSween's house was set on fire, yet little else is known about the one-time 'Regulator.'
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