Leaving Civilization

By "The Cowboy" Jim Gray

Terror reigned across frontier Kansas after the shocking July 1868 raids through north-central Kansas by Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Sioux warriors.

The Aug. 21, 1868, edition of the Emporia News reported that 200 families had fled the Saline, Solomon, and Republican valleys north of Fort Harker. Gen. Philip Sheridan’s command, the Department of the Missouri, extending all the way to the foothills of the Colorado Rockies, was unexpectedly paralyzed by fear.

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