| Show custer disaster messenger FN N gray ray twilight of if the dawn of 0 june 29 08 1870 the men on oil the steamer far west tied up on the banks of nt the little ilig horn clorn river in montana were awakened by it a splutter of rifle tire As they rushed on oil deck they saw aw a horseman galloping furiously up or the valley turning now and then in ills saddle to lire fire back at the whoop ing indians who were pursuing him when the redskins red skins saw the steamer they gave up tip the pursuit and the lotte lone horseman dashed up springing from his saddle paddle he staggered on to the far west und and rapped out I 1 lister custer and all his men inon have been wiped out by tile tho sioux 1 ile he was taylor tin lor a scout attached atta clied to general gibbons com coin mand on tits ills way to fort rills p 1113 dispatches from his dis dig covered by the indians lie had hwn been forced to run for ills his life and only tile the lucky cli chance tince of his finding the ho par west where he did saved him from death nt at the hands of the sit sac v ages to the men on briard the boat he pare gave the first authentic account of the disaster that had befallen tile the drishing leader of the seventh cavalry two lays dava later taelor left the par far west when it steadied nied tin dait of the ilia flig horn into tho the yellowstone an and set olt on hla his long lonely ride of miles to fort illis A hundred miles from his starting tar ting place he reached tin nn old tation station on the yellowstone yel where lived horace countryman in old scout and indian lighter deliler dR liler taylor was so exhausted that he was unable to KO go on but the next day accompanied hy by countryman ile he fet out ot on oil a fresh horse and deac reached ii ed fo fort r t kills eills where he ngali lot told his tragic traffic story to a group of hor rifled listeners in the meantime countryman hat had continued continue on to IS azeman ozeman where lie expected expect ed to be able to spread the tad ings of 0 custers fate over a govern ment telegraph wire hut but on his arrival there he found tile the govern ment wire down and useless SO 0 o lit he continued continue on to helena wh which I 1 ch lif he reached about noon on july 4 there he told the news to andrew 3 djs ask on an associated press correspondent and that afternoon ilsk fisk flash lashed etl to tile the world the first news of the disaster on tile the little ilig horn florn a feat lande possible by the daring ride of muggins taylor after the indian wars were over taylor became a pence peace officer lo in lilon ajon tana and was killed in tile the town of coul coulson son in october 1 by a drunken neer do well named lump or lemp who shot taylor down when the deputy sheriff attempted to arrest him e Q 1111 1933 western Nii tw liz I 1 |
