As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
John R. Cook, wrote on of the most boring of books of the American western frontier. It is so lethargic, I am surprised he did not die in his sleep at age 23.
There was one redeeming feature of the book though in this quote:
It was that summer that the then Captain, Adna R. Chaffee, who had worked his way up from a private soldier, step by step, for heroic and meritorious conduct, to the position he then held, made his famous battle-field speech, near the breaks of the Red river, when he was confronted with a horde of painted, war-bonneted red-devils under old Nigger Horse. He halted his com- pany, fronted them, right-dressed them, and said: "Forward, boys! Charge them, and if any of you are killed I'll promote you to corporal."
I always enjoy how freely the people of the 19th century used to use words that are now so taboo. Lovely thing really, that an Indian terrorist went by the name of Nigger Horse. I suspect the horse had to be more than black, but it must have been some vision of those curly coated Crow horses which have a wool like coat, instead of hair.
Seems a pity that no one ever carved a monument to old Nigger Horse like that terrorists Crazy Horse. Seems none of the bucks with cool Indian names like Plenty Coup, Pawnee Killer, Roman Nose ever got any stone carvings made for them.
BLACK HORSE [TU-UKUMAH] | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas ...
BLACK HORSE [TU -UKUMAH] (?-ca ... He was sometimes called Nigger Horse by John R ... 1959). James L. Haley, The Buffalo War: The History of the Red River Indian ...
Guess that explains it all if you can believe someone from 1959 civil rights propaganda. Only problem is no one explains the Nigger Horse name, as the Comanche called him COLT or SUN RAYS. Not hardly anything niggerly in those names.
Well any way, olde Nigger Horse almost bit the bullet by buffalo soldiers of the 10th Cav, as he was reported killed, but it was another good Indian, and Nigger Horse lived out his days in Oklahoma.......again another boring story, as everything associated with John Cook just is boring as hell.
Again it makes no sense as this was frontier and wild times, Libby Custer riding wild over the plains, George Custer in Indian fights, and ..........well the fact is Billy Dixon could write about eating boiled turkey innards on the Staked Plains and make them interesting without a mention of olde Nigger Horse.
When your life is boring........embellish it as no one will ever know as historians are full of shit and the rest of the pilgrims are dead.
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