Squaw Man
Description
Fort Laramie's Captain Lee Quince must make a hard choice after Will Granby, who lives with the Indians, tells him that hungry Arapaho warriors plan to attack a wagon train for supplies. Quince hopes to work things out with words, but his commanders ordered him to protect the settlers and push the Arapaho back to their reservation. The situation gets more dangerous as Quince tries to stop a deadly fight.
Captain Lee Quince of Fort Laramie faces a tough call when Will Granby, a squaw man, warns of starving Arapaho planning to raid a wagon train for food. Quince wants to talk, but his orders are to escort the train and force the Arapaho back to their agency. Tensions rise as Quince hopes to prevent bloodshed.
Will Granby, a squaw man, reports that the Arapaho are off the reservation, seeking buffalo or food of any kind.
Fort Laramie was a significant 19th-century trading post, diplomatic site, and military installation located at the confluence of the Laramie and the North Platte Rivers. They joined in the upper Platte River Valley in the eastern part of the present-day US state of Wyoming. The fort was founded as a private trading post in the 1830s to service the overland fur trade; in 1849, it was purchased by the United States Army. The site was located east of the long climb leading to the best and lowest crossing over the Rocky Mountains at South Pass and became a popular stop for migrants on the Oregon Trail. Along with Bent's Fort on the Arkansas River, the trading post and its supporting industries and businesses were the most significant economic hub of commerce in the region.
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