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Audiobook CHAPTER 3: Dawn on the Smoky Hill
Audiobook CHAPTER 3: Dawn on the Smoky Hill
Send us Fan Mail On the cold, frosty morning of September 11, 1874, the German family's journey across the windswept flats of Logan County, Kansas, was violently cut short. As John and Lydia led their canvas-topped wagon toward Fort Wallace alongside their older children, a raiding party of seventeen Cheyenne warriors from Grey Beard’s band suddenly descended upon them from a nearby ravine. The attack unfolded with brutal speed, leaving John, Lydia, Stephen, Jane, and Joanna dead and scalped ...