Jumat, 13 Oktober 2017

Ute Chief Walker—or Walkara— Traded in Both Horses and Slaves

Capturing Paiutes and Goshutes was profitable business. Ute Chief Walkara,better known as Chief Walker, may have been the Old West’s greatest horse rustler. During one raiding campaign against the California horse ranches in 1840 he and his specially trained light cavalry of Ute warriors stole hundreds of horses (perhaps as many as 3,000), reportedly without …

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