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In September 1868, a desperate overnight engagement unfolded at Little Coon Creek, located approximately thirty miles east of Fort Dodge along the dry route. Fred Hagsby—an Englishman stationed at Fort Dodge at the time—wrote the accompanying song, which commemorates a small band of four men who marched out from the post with supplies for their comrades and fought valiantly through the night against overwhelming odds.
While the lyrical verses state that the attacking party consisted of fifty Native Americans, this number was adjusted by the author strictly to fit the rhyme scheme of the song, as historical accounts confirm that the actual force was significantly larger. Nearly half a century earlier, the tune used for this frontier ballad was the same melody associated with the historical song "Sherman's March to the Sea".
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Step back into the raw, untamed reality of the Kansas frontier and listen to the true story of Fort Dodge—stripped of Hollywood gloss. Scan to hear how a windswept outpost born in April 1865 along the Arkansas River survived brutal blizzards, disease-ridden sod dugouts, desertion, and illicit whiskey and arms trafficking to become a critical military lifeline along the Santa Fe Trail. Follow General Philip Sheridan and Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer as Fort Dodge served as the staging ground for their relentless 1868–1869 winter campaign—culminating in the devastating dawn attack on Black Kettle’s village at the Washita River that forced Southern Plains tribes onto reservations—before the railroad arrived in 1872, the Army marched away in 1882, and the historic limestone post was reborn in 1890 as the Kansas Soldiers' Home, where it continues to serve veterans today.
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The Starter | Music, Memory & the Songs We Keep
You hear a song, and a memory opens up. Personal audio essays by Stephen Hollowell.
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Picture the summer of 1843, heat shimmering off the prairie. Jacob Snively, a surveyor with a score to settle, gathers a band of Texas volunteers and heads north along the Santa Fe Trail. Their mission? Intercept Mexican trade caravans and settle old debts with whatever goods they can haul away. Sam Houston gave his blessing, but only on paper and behind closed doors. The Texas Invincibles, as they called themselves, rode out looking for payback along the Arkansas River, where the border was more rumor than fact. They found it, too—a quick, lopsided fight with Mexican scouts. But the real trouble started when Captain Philip St. George Cooke and his U.S. Dragoons showed up at Jackson's Grove, rolled out their artillery, and told the Texans to hand over their guns. Suddenly, three nations were staring each other down on the prairie, and nobody wanted to blink first. What happened next nearly rewrote the map. And as for Snively? He kept chasing fortune all the way to Arizona's gold fields, never quite finding a place to land.
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In Ida Ellen Rath’s book The Rath Trail (1961), Chapter 18 ("Where the Rath Trail Led”) covers the trail's physical establishment and history. This chapter focuses directly on the southern extension of Charles Rath and Robert M. Wright’s freighting and buffalo hunting operations into the Texas Panhandle and Double Mountain country. It details the heavy ox trains heading south out of Dodge City, passing Fort Elliott, and blazing the supply and hide corridor down to Rath City (Reynolds City) in Stonewall County, Texas.  
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This audiobook preserves, honors, and brings to vivid life a vital yet often-overlooked chapter of 19th-century American frontier history: the harrowing September 1868 Battle of Little Coon Creek along the Santa Fe Trail. While grand military strategies and high-ranking generals frequently dominate historical accounts, the daily perils, sacrifices, and extraordinary valor of common soldiers and non-commissioned officers often slip into obscurity. This book was written to ensure that the remarkable courage of defenders like Medal of Honor recipient Corporal Leander "Lee" Herron and the desperate midnight ride of Corporal Patrick "Patty" Boyle are permanently recorded, remembered, and made accessible to modern readers. By drawing upon primary accounts—including Robert M. Wright’s 1913 memoirs, rare historical songs, expert historical analysis by Dr. Jeff Broome, and a newly rediscovered 1930 radio broadcast featuring Corporal Herron himself—the book captures the raw, human reality of the Kansas frontier.
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