Last of the Dogmen Page #2

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another bounty hunter

Zip!

Sorry.

Are you always this persistent?

I got half way home

before turning back

Call it gut instinct

And what is this gut instinct

of yours telling you?

You're not telling me everything

You want something to drink?

Thought you'd never ask!

Well, I'm not hiding anything

You wouldn't eventually uncover

Give me that. Let go!

So I'm willing to

satisfy your curiosity

If you promise not to

bother me again

Yep

Mineral water.

It's good for you

Here we are

By late1864,

Many tribes

were raiding settlements, stealing horses.

Making a general nuisance of themselves

But one of the few Cheyenne chiefs

Really trying to make peace

Was Black Kettle

He and his people were instructed to

make camp at Sand Creek, near Ft. Lyon

They'd been promised protection.

So that night they had a

feast with dancing and games

To celebrate peace

The following dawn,

November 29th was freezing

A group of Colorado volunteers known as

the Bloodless Third surrounded the camp

They were instructed to

take off their coats

Strange, huh?

Black Kettle immediately raised the

American flag and the white flag of peace

People rushing around in great panic

and fear and he kept calling out

Not to be frightened, they'd been

promised protection, there was no danger

Suddenly, the troops attacked!

Now, two thirds of these

Indians were women and children

It was total chaos.

It was a massacre

Blood froze instantly on the bodies

Then looting began

Scalps were taken. Fingers,

ears, noses cut off

Babies were cut out of the wombs.

Women had their uteruses cut off

and the soldiers were

them on their hats

As a matter of fact, when they

put their clean coats back on,

they paraded through Denver with body

parts decorating their uniforms and horses

Among the few that escaped Sand Creek

were 20 men, women and children led by

Lone Wolf,

leader of the Dog Men

The soldiers chased them

northward, through 2 states

Right up into the mountains

of northwestern Montana

The blizzard force them to turn back

and they left the Indians for dead

Here, Lone Wolf

There

Now you know every thing

there is to know

It's late.

I'm tired. Good night

Wait a minute. Don't

you see? It all adds up

What?

Just suppose...

What if by a fluke,

or a miracle

What if Lone Wolf and

those Cheyenne did survive?

Isn't it possible their descendents

could of remained hidden in the Oxbow?

They didn't survive

How do you know?

They were starving in a hostile

environment, winter, only the clothes

on their back. They didn't survive.

You sure of that?

If there were Indians in the Oxbow don't you

think someone would have seen them by now?

Not necessarily

You are a nut case

Look at the wolf

Now we know wolves exist

in the Oxbow, ok?

I've found their tracks. I've heard

their howls. I've even found the spot

where one watched my camp for half a day

- But I've never seen one

- It's not the same

It is the same

It's not the same

Look, Elvis is dead

The government is hiding UFO's and there are

no Cheyenne Dog Soldiers living in the Oxbow

Why are you being so

goddamed pigheaded?

Because I'm goddamed good at it

I know you saw something out there

you can't explain. I do believe that

But I can't invest all this time and

energy into your fantasy, I rely on facts

Now, we're both tired.

I'm going to bed.

You're welcome to the couch

I should warn you, I tend to

walk around naked in the morning

Oxbow Quadrangle

These files contain copies of

every issue we ever published

93 years worth

There you are son

Happy hunting

Lost hunter

Friday, March 16, 1935

Search Suspended

Oxbow Claims 6 Lives

Wild Boy Captured

'A half-starved"...

"Nicknamed Jacko"

"Didn't speak a word of English"

Retirement home

How you doing today Mr. Hollis?

When will they put some

goddam fish in this river?

I talked to the game warden and he

assures me this river is full of fish

Well he's a liar. Why when I

was a kid we'd come down here...

Mr. Hollis, this is Mr. Gates

He's going to visit with

you for a while

Full of fish, my ass

Who the hell are you?

Wonder that myself sometimes

Hand me one of them

night crawlers, will ya?

So I understand you used

to work for the railroad

Not just any railroad son

The Great Northern Pacific.

53 years

Mr. Hollis, tell me about Jacko

Well I'll be damned!

- You remember that?

- Remember

I caught the little runt!

What happened?

Been a hell of a lot of years

since I thought of that

35 I think it was

Me and old Ed Vallee, we

was heading up to Kootenay

Spur line needed some work

Sometime past noon, We spotted

something run across the track

First I thought it was a deer

Then I seen it was a boy

Well Ed stopped the train

We lit out after him

There he is!

We chased him a ways

and finally cornered him

down along the river

Soon as we got close, we seen he was

an Indian. He didn't speak English

- Just sort of grunted

- What did you do with him?

Well, me and Ed didn't

know what to do with him

He was cold and tired and

so I wrapped him in my shirt

We brung him down to Sheriff Case,

He stuck him in a cell

cause he didn't have no

other place to put him

We nicknamed him Jacko

Cause his face kinda looked

wide eyed and scared

Like a jack-o-lantern

Next morning,

he was gone

We figured he squeezed out

through the bars during the night

Well, that was the end of it.

Nobody ever seen him again

Course the Sheriff contacted some

of the local Reservations,

but nothing ever come of it

Seems like nobody knew who the

boy was ner where he come from

Where do you think he came from?

Hell, I don't know

But you tell me,

what's a Indian boy who don't

speak a word of English doing way

out in the middle of nowhere?

60 miles from the nearest town?

This photo was taken just

after these Cheyenne girls arrived

At the Indian School in

Carlisle Pennsylvania

The same a girls, 14 months later

Their hair was cut, they

were give Christian names

and forbidden to speak

in their native tongue

So began the Government's

policy in dealing with

the plains tribe

The policy of...

The policy of assimilation

Religious and cultural

We need to talk

Look at this

17 people disappeared

In the Oxbow since 1898. 17 people,

doesn't that seem a little odd?

Do you always where that hat?

There's more

In 1935

A young Indian boy was found

on the edge of the Oxbow

Didn't speak a word of English

I talked to the man who caught him

An Indian boy who doesn't speak

English and vanishes without a trace

Explain that one

You rely in facts, isn't

that what you told me?

Well these are the facts

What do you want from me?

I'm going back in

If my hunch is right I don't

want to end up on that list

I need someone along who speaks

Cheyenne. One of your students?

No... oh no

All I'm asking for is a few days.

We ride, we take a look around.

We ride back out. Three days

If they're out there I have to know

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