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Rocky Mountain Editorial Excursion at Fort Kearney
The narrative recounts arrival at Fort Kearney on October 16, meeting Lt. J. A. Sheetz, and preparations for a buffalo hunt. The party travels by army wagons across the Platte, camps on the fort’s grounds, and stages a detailed but humorous account of the hunt with multiple buffalo felled, a near-miss by a surgeon, and camaraderie with Postmaster Snyderham and others before returning to the train for Columbus and a Pawnee dance.
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Fort Kearney
Grand Island
Platte
Council Bluffs
Prairies
Terra Firma
J. A. Sheetz
8Th Illinois
80Th Regulars
C. A. Sheetz
Sheetz
A. J. Dallas
Sam
Platte River
Samuel
Sheets
Bluffs
Parrellel
Bradley
Taylor
Sterl
Rounds
Davidson
St. Paul
Worthington
Sterling
New ‘York
Mr. Buffalo
Nik
Byu
Snydenham
Post
Odies
Kinsley
Emery
Prairie Farmer
Sterling Gazette
Shelitz
Dalas
Dru Bradley
Snyderham
Columbus