Trooper Ross And Signal Butte

Excerpt from Trooper Ross and Signal Butte There was a scene of wild excitement one summer's night at old Fort Frayne. With the exception of one company of infantry, the entire garrison was in the field. The families of some of the officers had been sent East for the time being, because every one realized that a long and arduous, probably dangerous, campaign was in the wind, and no post in all the wide North-west was in so exposed a position. It lay in the very heart of what had been the Sioux country. The Indians loved the mountains that loomed up to the southward of the old stockade, and resented it that they were forced by treaty stipulations to keep on the north side of the river that swept in grand semicircle around the bold bluff whereon stood the fort. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.