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on David Dary's Kanzana (1854-1900) bibliography.

(A) As Praire Passage Eco-Futurist/geoWIZard,

I SEEK diverse perspectives on Cimarron Cutoff ... Trails-n-Tales(cc)

Ross Marshal & Tristan Smith recycled regional thinkLets about plains people & places plus media-driven ... attitude shifts.

 

(B) Our Landscape Architecture Getty Grant

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(C) The Westport-Lawrence Road (aka California Road)

>> was traveled by people such as John Fremont who were heading to California. Although it was shorter than the Independence or Westport Routes, it was somewhat more difficult. Emigrant traffic started on the Westport-Lawrence Road in 1849 and continued in popularity for years. After 1854, it became a heavily used road from Westport to Lawrence in the Kansas Territorial period. <<

 

(D) Donated a KU Continuing Education (KUCE)

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OK-FIRST

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1889 Hornaday Extermination of American Bison

... and inhospitable country stretching southward from the Cimarron country

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The Cimarron Council was formed in the summer of 2000 through a consolidation

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[The correspondent in the next article was “N,” believed to be Professor Norton.]

 

 

The Commonwealth, April 1, 1874. 

 

 

From Our Regular Correspondent.

 

The recent delay in the confirmation of the Osage agent, and the discussion in regard to the habits of that tribe, call to mind events which came under my observation upon the plains one year ago.

 

I started, on the morning of the 26th of January, 1873, from the Apache village on the Cimarron

for the Osage camps upon the Salt Fork of the Arkansas

 

They traveled nearly ten days before they found any individual or group convenient to kill. They went down to the north fork of the Canadian, crossed the Chisholm trail, struck northwesterly across the Cimarron at the Red Hills, and finally camped in a little ravine near the “Eagle Chief” creek.

 

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BOOK REVIEWS 149

 

 

Mullis, Tony R.

Peacekeeping on the Plains: Army Operations in Bleeding Kansas.

Columbia: Univ. of Missouri, 2004. 273pp. $40.50

 

 

Tony Mullis, a serving officer in the U.S. Air Force, takes a close look at a

time when approximately 10 percent of the U.S. Army was intimately involved

in one of the most challenging and politically charged assignments ever given

to the U.S. military. Assigned occupation duties in a land where tribal loyalties

had been the primary form of government, Army officers, in cooperation

with diplomats appointed by the president, were tasked to assist a fledgling

democracy attain statehood while avoiding incipient civil war. The task

was complicated by the infusion of ideologically motivated outsiders, most

of them heavily armed. The two main local factions committed a variety of atrocities,

including the massacre  of innocent civilians. Elections, new to the area, were viewed

with open suspicion by most of the population. Local militias were often little more

than muscle for political leaders.

Many of the thornier underlying political issues had religious and economic overtones.

Several Army officers assigned to these duties were involved in scandals, and at least

one associated court-martial received national attention. Meanwhile, powerful

individuals in Washington disagreed, sometimes publicly, over tactics, strategy,

and policy in the affected region. To make matters worse, ingrained organizational barriers

and an inherent resistance to change prevented promising new technologies

from being used with maximum effectiveness.

 

 

Finally, while the Army may have portrayed its role as one of neutral

professionalism, both Democrats and Republicans were using the results of

the occupation as a key component of their respective strategies for the next

presidential election. The year was 1854, and the theater of operations was

the Kansas Territory.

 

 

Peacekeeping on the Plains clearly began life as a doctoral dissertation. In its introduction

Mullis lays out his basic premise. Debunking the perhaps popular

conception that the United States has but recently come to experience

peace operations, Mullis shows that the U.S. Army has been involved in missions

of this type since the first days of the Republic—though this historical involvement

has long been overlooked and underanalyzed. Mullis seeks to begin

correcting this omission by examining in some detail the 1855 punitive

expedition against the Lakota (of the Great Sioux Nation) as an example of

the Army’s efforts to keep peace in “Bleeding Kansas.” Chapter 1 gives an

overview of the U.S. Army’s involvement in peace operations, and chapter 2

provides background information on the issue of slavery and the creation of

the state of Kansas. Chapters 3 and 4 take a detailed look at the 1855 punitive

expedition led by General William S. Harney. Chapters 5 through 8 deal with

Army operations supporting civil actions in Kansas from 1854 to 1857.

A conclusion and epilogue complete the work.

 

 

As was often demonstrated during the 1990s, the line between peace enforcement

and war is often difficult to determine. This was no less true in 1855. The U.S. Army

used deadly force against the Lakota, took hostages, and committed various acts

that would, by the standards of today, be judged illegal. Yet, as Mullis points out,

these operations were carried out with a political objective in mind, and, in the main,

they were effective. Furthermore, Harney’s success did have a positive impact,

in that they influenced other tribes to remain peaceful. Such results would seem to

have contemporary parallels with peace operations conducted by the French in

the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the British in Sierra Leone, and the U.S.

Marines in Liberia.

 

 

The parallels between current operations in Iraq and those of the Army in

bleeding Kansas are even more strongly apparent. Faced with a unique and unwelcome

mission, the Army faced a steep learning curve. There were missed

opportunities and at least several instances of officers engaging in dubious

ethical behavior in order to take advantage of perceived business opportunities.

The initially appointed political leadership proved too vacillating and

incompetent to deal with the complex difficulties inherent in the situation.

Furthermore, the entire issue was a red-hot political football, which the

newly created Republican Party was using to excoriate the incumbent

Democrats.

 

 

Like those against the Lakota, the peace operations in Kansas were eventually

successful. Nationalizing factional militias, deploying federal forces to prevent

civil strife, and arresting infiltrating partisans all contributed to political stability

and a safe election environment. Yet, as Mullis points out, several facets

of policy either failed or were badly flawed. These included the failure to

utilize the telegraph to transmit information rapidly to and from the area of

operations. Mail was simply too slow to be operationally relevant—the telegraph

could have been a powerful tool in the hands of the administration.

 

 

Peacekeeping on the Plains helps fill a gap in the coverage of some of the formative

experiences of the U.S. Army. This is valuable in and of itself. However, the

more immediate contribution of the work is to identify lessons learned in the

mid-1800s that may be applicable in the early years of the twenty-first century.

However, as one would expect given the immense technological differences between

the eras, these lessons are rather general in nature. For example, it proved impossible to

craft orders so detailed as to cover every situation the occupying forces encountered.

Until local authorities began exercising authority they technically did

not possess, the result was a paralysis of action. In connection with the Lakota

reprisal, Mullis also makes a convincing argument for assigning older and presumably

more mature officers to positions that would in these operations,

under normal circumstances, go to younger officers.

 

 

Mullis’s work also shows that the central conundrum of peace operations

was as valid in the mid-nineteenth century as it is today. Enough troops with

the right leadership can impose a peace, and might even be able to enforce a

peace, but unless the root causes of conflict are resolved the peace has to be

pinned into place by bayonets and will not endure. The peace imposed on the

Lakota by the U.S. Army did not last long; it took a civil war and the destruction

of the Confederacy to deal with the root causes that led to bleeding Kansas.

As mentioned earlier, this work is clearly derived from a dissertation, and

for that reason, while it is intellectually stimulating, at times the writing is

somewhat ponderous, repetitive, and dry. Yet the contribution this work

makes to understanding both past and present eras of significance makes the

effort worthwhile.

 

 

RICHARD NORTON

Naval War College 

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As our dynamic Freedom's Frontier NHA Master Plan nears completion, we need to adopt practical data sharing standards that amplify our evolving Kanzana “Trails-n-Tales"(cc) blended visual learning model for effective interpretation and environmental education.   

 

Background:

 

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1. Geocaching: An adventure open to all

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