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Portugee Phillips Hero of Fort Phil Kearney Ride
The narrative honors John Phillips known as Portugee for riding 236 miles through a blizzard to Fort Laramie to warn of Red Cloud’s siege on Fort Phil Kearney. It recounts the Fetterman massacre, Phillips’s solitary midnight journey, the dispatches filed at Horseshoe Station, and later efforts in Congress to recognize his heroism with compensation to his widow.
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John
Portugee
Phillips
Fetterman
Phil Kearney
Little Piney
Red Cloud
Big Horn
Fort Phil Kearney
Bozeman Trail
Fort Laramie
Colonel Carrington
John Phillips
Powder River
Carrington
George W. Grummond
Grummond
Fort Leavenworth
Horse Shoe Station
Cheyenne
Laramie ‘River
Evry
Reno
Fort Smith
Spencer
Henry B. Carrington
18Th Infantry
John C. Friend
Rawlins
Wyoming
Horseshoe
Friend
George Dillon
Bailey
Fort Reno
Omaha
A. B. Ostrander
John C. Brough
James Hi. Cook
Agate
Sioux County
Nebraska
Niobara River
Cook
Mercury
Bedlam
Philips
John Hunton
Lving
Island
Fayal
America
Pacific
Ater
F. E. Warren
F. W. Mondell
Relef
Mrs. Phillips
Fort Fetterman
Secretary of the Interior
Congress
Court of Claims
Committee On War Claims
House of Representatives
House
Ig Horn Mountains
Tongue River
Hardy
John Pulps
United States
John Phillins
Fort Metterman
United States Army
Eighteenth
United States Infantry
Rocky Mountain District
Fort Philip Kearney
Fort Laramila
Iis
G. W. Grummond
Indies
U.S. A
Frances C. Carrington
Hyde Varke
Massachusettes
Phat
Ife
Yiderrao
Condh
Old Pioneers
Great Western Frontier
Johnson County
W. J. Fetterman