The Battle of Beecher Island

The Battle of Beecher Island

In the summer of 1868 Major George A. Forsyth, under orders from General Sheridan, raised a company of fifty "first-class hardy frontiersmen" to seek out and engage hostile Native Americans. These scouts soon found themselves outnumbered and surrounded by hundreds of Cheyenne warriors as they took refuge on a little sandbar in the middle of the Arikaree river. What followed is now known as the battle of Beecher Island. Check out my website for more true stories from the wild west! Subscribe to Patreon for bonus content & to support the show! Contrary - Little Big Man List of Forsyth's Scouts Excerpt from Indian Yell, by Michael Blake - True West Mag Indian Yell: The Heart of an American Insurgency by Michael Blake The Battle of Beecher Island, by George A. Forsyth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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