Fort Sill, located in the heart of the old Kiowa-Comanche Indian
country in southwestern Oklahoma, is known to a modern generation
as the Field Artillery School of the United States Army. To
students of American frontier history, it is known as the focal
point of one of the most interesting, dramatic, and sustained
series of conflicts in the records of western warfare.
From 1833 until 1875, in a theater of action extending from Kansas
to Mexico, the strife was almost uninterrupted. The U.S. Army,
militia of Kansas, Texas Rangers, and white pioneers and traders on
the one hand were arrayed against the fierce and heroic bands of
the Kiowas, Comanches, Cheyennes, Arapahoes, and Kiowa-Apaches on
the other.
The savage skirmishes with the southwestern Indians before the
Civil War provided many army officers with a kind of training which
was indispensable to them in that later, prolonged conflict. When
hostilities ceased, men like Sherman, Sheridan, Dodge, Custer, and
Grierson again resumed the harsh field of guerrilla warfare against
their Indian foes, tough, hard, lusty, fighters, among whom the
peace pipe had ceased to have more than a ceremonial significance.
With the inauguration of the so-called Quaker Peace Policy during
President Grant's first administration, the hands of the army were
tied. The Fort Sill reservation became a place of refuge for the
marauding hands which went forth unmolested to train in Texas,
Oklahoma, and Mexico. The toll in human life reached such
proportions that the government finally turned the southwestern
Indians over to the army for discipline, and a permanent settlement
of the bands was achieved by 1875.
From extensive research, conversations with both Indian and white
eye witnesses, and his familiarity with Indian life and army
affairs, Captain Nye has written an unforgettable account of these
stirring time. The delineation of character and the reconstruction
of colorful scenes, so often absent in historical writing, are to
be found here in abundance. His Indians are made to live again: his
scenes of post life could have been written only by an army man.
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