Join George Hoodoo Brown and Jack Stilwell in the retelling of the Battle of Beecher Island, also known as the Battle of Arikaree Fork. The battle was an armed conflict between the United States Army elements and several of the Plains Tribes in September of 1868. (You can purchase the book Trails, Forts Treaties, and Indian Wars now on sale for a limited time at Amazon.com.) In part one of the Battle of Beecher Island, George Hoodoo Brown arrived in Hays City on September 29, 1868. George enters a saloon where he meets Jack Stilwell, an army scout at the Battle of Beecher Island. Over a few drinks at the bar, Stilwell describes how he and 50 other scouts participated in a special mission out of Fort Harker. The mission was under the command of Major Forsyth, who received information that Indians had attacked a freighter's train 13 miles east of Ft. Wallace, near the railhead of the Kansas Pacific Railroad. The mission was to counter the Indian attack by trailing and punishing the raiding Party.
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