The vintage account and heritage of the Taos insurrection and the Cheyenne Indians.

In the brilliant morning of his formative years, Lewis H. Garrard traveled into the wild and loose Rocky Mountain West and left us this clean and energetic account, which, says A. B. Guthrie Jr., includes in its pages “the actual article—the Indian, the dealer, the mountain guy, their gown, and behaviour and speech and the rustic and weather they lived in.”

On September 1, 1846, Garrard, then basically seventeen years previous, left Westport touchdown (now Kansas urban) with a caravan, lower than command of the recognized dealer Céran St. Vrain, certain for Bent’s castle (Fort William) within the southeastern a part of present-day Colorado. After a long stopover at on the fortress and in a camp of the Cheyenne Indians, early in 1847 he joined the little band of volunteers recruited through William Bent to avenge the loss of life of his brother, Governor Charles Bent of Taos, killed in a bloody yet short Mexican and Indian rebellion in that New Mexican pueblo. in reality, Garrard’s is the single eyewitness account we've got of the trial and putting of the “revolutionaries” at Taos.

Many amazing figures of the plains and mountains dot his pages: investors St. Vrain and the Bents; mountain males John L. Hatcher, Jim Beckwourth, Lucien B. Maxwell, package Carson, and others; numerous soldiery touring to and from the outposts of the Mexican conflict; and explorer and author George F. Ruxton.

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