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General George Crook: His Autobiography
General George Crook was one Civil War general who didn’t win his reputation east of the Mississippi River. To him, the Civil War was just an interlude. Before and after this great conflict, Crook was an Indian fighter.
Crook fought the greatest of the Indian chieftains; served at frontier posts from the Columbia River to the Rio Grande, from Illinois to the Pacific. Yet he ...more
Crook fought the greatest of the Indian chieftains; served at frontier posts from the Columbia River to the Rio Grande, from Illinois to the Pacific. Yet he ...more
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368 pages
Published
April 15th 1986
by University of Oklahoma Press
(first published April 1986)
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Page 77: Indians were full of supersitions. One night an Indian came to my house during the small hours, very much excited. He wanted me to hurry up to Sa-aitl, a village a couple of miles from the post. He said that some of the up-river Indians were going to kill them for being witches. Like all such beliefs, the more unreasonable and absurd they were the more difficult it was to reason them out of them. By arguments and threats I finally prevaailed on them to desist.
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