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Red Men and White Meet Again on Medicine Lodge Ground
A Medicine Lodge pageant Oct 6 7 8 reenacts the 1867 Medicine Lodge peace treaty signing. Chiefs from Cheyennes Arapahoes Kiowas Comanches and Apaches join U S delegates including N G Taylor and Kit Carson in Barber County Kansas as Fort Riley troops guard the site. The event marks a pivotal but fragile peace amid ongoing frontiers conflicts.
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Medicine Lodge
Great West
Barber County
Kansas
Elm Creek
Medicine River
Oklahoma
Seventh Cavalry
Fort Riley
Kan
Andrew Johnson
Washington
Jesse H. Leavenworth
Nathaniel Greene Taylor
Indian Affairs
Leavenworth
George Bent
Bent
Arkansas
Little Arkansas River
Thomas Murphy
Fort Larned
Kit Carson
Jesse Chisholm
Col
A. G. Boone
Daniel
William Matthewson
Buffalo Bill
Black Beaver
S. F. Tappan
Augur
W. T. Sherman
Sherman
Harney
Little Thunder
Sanborn
William Bent
Little Arkansas
Samuel J. Crawford
J. P. Root
E. G. Ross
Crawford
Nineteenth
Kansas Cavalry
George A. Custer
Washita River
Black Kettle
E. W. Wynkoop
Murphy
J. K. Rankin
Indian Department
John D. Howland
Colorado
Harper’s
James E. Taylor
Frank Leslie
Little Raven
Spotted Wolf
Yellow Bear
Storm
Powder Face
Ice
Arapahoes
Bull Bear
Tall Bull
Grey Head
Arkansas River
Congress
Texas
George Bird Grinnell
New Mexico
Arizona
Union Pacific Railroad
Santa Fe
Iron Horse
Summit Springs
Satanta
Plains
Western Newspaper Union