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Eastern Indians wanted their opponent to run. They figured to run them down and it was greater sport for them to do so. Sending the wife and kids to the ridge which required running out in the open was suicidal. Normally everyone would barricade the doors and window in anticipation of an assault. But like CraigC's father would say, it was in the script.
The Indian Artifacts on the Colonel's walls weren't exactly correct. The pipe tomahawk blades were bigger and wider out West and the one on the wall would fit into the 1760s era.
The second fort where they picked the prisoner was too congested. Should have been a big parade ground between the structures. Camp Verde, Laramie and other forts were like that. Now Fort Massachusetts in Alamosa, CO was an enclosed wood fort but the wood was horizontal and filled with dirt. Fort Garland which replaced it (Garland, CO), was open with a parade ground and did not have defensive walls like virtually all other SW forts. Fort Union in New Mexico didn't have a defensive structure until a star shape earth fort was thrown up 2 miles from the bluffs that overlooked Fort Union. It was well out of range of the 12 pdr mountain howitzers that Sibley had when he tried to conquer the SW for the Confederacy.
The Indian Artifacts on the Colonel's walls weren't exactly correct. The pipe tomahawk blades were bigger and wider out West and the one on the wall would fit into the 1760s era.
The second fort where they picked the prisoner was too congested. Should have been a big parade ground between the structures. Camp Verde, Laramie and other forts were like that. Now Fort Massachusetts in Alamosa, CO was an enclosed wood fort but the wood was horizontal and filled with dirt. Fort Garland which replaced it (Garland, CO), was open with a parade ground and did not have defensive walls like virtually all other SW forts. Fort Union in New Mexico didn't have a defensive structure until a star shape earth fort was thrown up 2 miles from the bluffs that overlooked Fort Union. It was well out of range of the 12 pdr mountain howitzers that Sibley had when he tried to conquer the SW for the Confederacy.
