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I Shot My First Indian at Eleven in Kansas Plains
In 1857 N recalls leaving Iowa for Kansas with seven siblings, his father mobbed after an antislavery speech, and his later life as a youth on wagon trains. A lone rifle shot fells a war chief, guiding a perilous retreat toward Fort Kearny, with many dangers from Indians and wildlife.
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Iowa
Kansas
Salt Creek Valley
Charles Dunne
Overland
Russell, Majors & Waddell
Leavenworth
Mr. Majors
Fort Kearny
Albert Sydney Johnston
Salt Lake
South Platte
Frank McCarthy
Platte River
America
Pike's Peak
Valley Grove
Dave Phillips
Republican River
Beaver
Phillips
Dave
Rain-in-the-Face
General Custer
the Little Big Horn