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Pawnee

Pawnee Morning Star Sacrifice

Now as the children died and their parents wailed among the huts, the Skidis knew that they had sinned; they were no better than apostates. So they decreed a tribal…

Pawnee Reputation

"On the other side of the camp—a curious contrast—guns and ammunition were being distributed, as there were reports of the Pawnees being collected some twelve miles in advance. The Pawnees have the name of…

Pawnee Reputation

The view of the Pawnee as a treacherous and predatory people was inculcated in the 1840s with the publication of Fremont's journals and Hastings's and Ware's guidebooks for emigrants. In…

Pawnee Missionaries

The Pawnee came under the influence of the missionary frontier after 1833. The Reverend John Dunbar and Samuel Allis served as mis- sionaries to the Pawnee from 1834 to 1846.…

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Scott AlumbaughIn early March 2020, I decided to bikepack the length of the Pony Express Trail in Summer 2021, following the Pony Express Bikepacking Route, a nearly all off-road route created by Jan Bennett. You can learn more here >

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