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Riding with Billy Dixon: A Whirlwind Journey through the American Wild West and the Monumental Medicine Lodge Peace Council
Riding with Billy Dixon: A Whirlwind Journey through the American Wild West and the Monumental Medicine Lodge Peace Council
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Length:
23 minutes
Released:
Jul 22, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Part one of "Trail to Medicine Lodge" describes the reasons behind forming a peace commission to end the war with the Plains Indians while describing the Medicine Lodge location in Kansas. The story progresses as Billy Dixon, a hired freighter for the Medicine Lodge expedition, explains firsthand what it was like to move freight from the trailhead forts to the Medicine Lodge location. While on this journey from Fort Harker, Dixon experiences a cholera epidemic and then joins a train of wagons from Fort Hayes to Fort Wallace. While at Fort Wallace, Dixon and his friend Frickie meet a journalist named Henry M. Stanley. Stanley, then working as a special correspondent for the Saint Louis Daily Democrat, provides a character description of each Medicine Lodge Peace Commission member.
Released:
Jul 22, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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