Trails, Forts, Treaties, & Indian Wars
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Trails, Forts Treaties, and Indian Wars offer quintessential depictions of the early Kansas trails from historical accounts and individual experiences. The author describes what it was like to travel along the Santa Fe Trail as a bullwhacker, Indian fighter, and freighter. The book is complete with ten chapters providing accounts of the early Cheyenne Indian culture and Kansas westward expansion from the earliest conflicts to establishing military forts along the trails. This book features legendary figures from both sides, including Roman Nose and Jack Stilwell at the Battle of Beecher Island and private Peck and First, Lt. J. E. B. Stuart in the Solomon Fork's Battle.The book is complete with ten chapters providing accounts of the early Cheyenne Indian culture and Kansas westward expansion from the earliest conflicts to establishing military forts along the trails. This book features legendary figures from both sides, including Roman Nose and Jack Stilwell at the Battle of Beecher Island and private Peck and First, Lt. J. E. B. Stuart in the Solomon Fork's Battle. The essays and short stories are formatted in chronological history, originating in 1857 and ending in 1868, covering the inception of the central plains Indian wars' during the Kansas expansion. Michael King relies on primary Kansas Historical Society referenced documents to reveal the Indian depredation claims, giving the reader a more extensive understanding of the horrors of Indian incursions, especially when experienced by new settlers to the region.
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Trails, Forts, Treaties and Indian Wars, is the first in a series of frontier books based on the historical records of individual characters and actions, although the dialogues in the short stories are a work of creative nonfiction or the verbabala of creating factual accurate narrative.
