Item - Red Cloud's Revenge; or, The Fire-Water Fiend

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Online Full Text:	Stanford Digital Repository
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 22 no. 45 — page 8
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXII, no. 45, September 26, 1867 (Issue)
Author:	Minturn, Edward (pseudonym used by Judson, E. Z. C. (Edward Zane Carroll), 1822 or 1823-1890)
Date:	September 26, 1867
Edition Description:	Includes illustration.
First Sentence:	It was when the lamented Lincoln first took the helm of the ship of state, that ship already quivering on the storm-lashed waters of the sea of treason, that Red Cloud, one of the noblest chiefs of the tribe of Sioux, whose hunting-grounds stretch along from the base of the great Rocky Mountains over the plains watered by the Yellowstone and its affluents, visited Washington in company with a half-dozen subordinate chiefs of his own and other tribes, to see their "Great Father," and ask of him the justice which had been denied them by the agent of Floyd, the robber, and Buchanan, the imbecile.