Conflicts

Yclepted

"On August 22 [1849] the Missouri Republican correspondent 'Nebraska' told of a fiasco 'of our last Indian war, in which the chivalry of Missouri, yclepted the Oregon Battalion [out of…

Mile 258: Liberty Farm Station

"The sun reflected pleasantly from the white knoll at the site of the old Liberty Farm Station and struck diamond points of light from the rain-soaked masses of trees behind…

Grattan Fight

"The casus belli was a lame cow! The Mormons, whose cow had been taken, complained at Fort Laramie, and a rash young officer, Lieutenant John Grattan, rode out [to the…

Indian Difficulties in the mid-1860s

"Overland staging had met some Indian difficulties previously, but not until the sixties did these become chronic. The isolated depredations of the fifties were but preliminaries of the general uprisings…

Grattan Massacre

"On August 18 [1854] a lame cow wandered away from Mormon emigrants hurrying westward. When the stray cow reached the Sioux encampment it was quickly butchered. From this trivial occurrence…