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Lincoln County Indian Raids
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Lincoln County Indian Raids |
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The desperate struggle of Plains Indians to keep out white
settlers was a succession of raids and massacres. There
were several attacks in present Lincoln County. In 1864
Cheyennes on a foray through the Saline valley trapped four buffalo
hunters against a rocky ledge a little south of this marker
and killed them after a bitter fight. In 1868 three women
who had been kidnapped and maltreated by marauding
Indians were found several days later half-dead on the
prairie. In 1869 ten persons were massacred and two
women captured on the Saline river and northwest of
here on Spillman creek. Federal troops later rescued one
of the women in Colorado. A monument to the victims of
1864 and 1869 stands on the courthouse square in
Lincoln.
Erected by the
Kansas Historical Society
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