| Show I DAD AND BRIDGER CO CONTINUED The Fetterman Massacre avenue of or escape He saw then he had been led into a trap and o ga the order to retreat Hut But there were Indians between them and the Fort They were wiped out almost to a aman aman aman man and when found to bury all the horses heads and all the mens men's faces were pointed back to the fort Cart they never reached That's practically in dads dad's vernacular vernacular ular ular- ularand and he was a plainsman of or long experience a bull hull whacker knew the Indians like a book from many trips back and forth through their country and and often hostile countr country at that This version of or dads dad's agrees quite closely with that used by Mr 1 Alter Dad added The next day after atter the massacre r took my bull teams and empty wagons and under military military mili mili- tary escort found bodies an and carried carried carried car car- ried them back to the fort I can remember remember remember re re- re- re member now vividly the screaming and sobbing of the women as a body of a dear one was Identified It all could have been beon avoided had Fetterman Fetterman Fetterman Fetter- Fetter man followed h. h Yes dad knew Jim Bridger Dad was an au early bird on tho the Little Blue the Republican the North and South Platte was an early marshal in the wild town of oC Cheyenne was often to Fort Kearney to Fort Phil Kearney Fort Laramie and to Echo in 1868 1568 going thru Fort gor to get there Surely somewhere In all that wandering wandering wandering wan wan- dering he ae and Jim Bridger took a of rotgut and joined in criticising crit crU- white col collar ar soldiers soldiers- may be they did the day after aCter the Fetterman Fetterman Fetter- Fetter man Massacre 1 as they were largely birds of or a feather The joy of or reading the book James Jam Jam- es Bridger r is enhanced by what I Ican Ican can throw into it it and my fa father her before before be be- fore ore one fine Requiescat In pace to the tho soul of James Bridger trapper scout fron fron- Hersman and nd mountaineer The Thelast Thelast Thelast last of at his kind |
