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Bat Masterson & the Red River War: German Family Ambush

May 11, 2022 Michael King/Brad Smalley/Scott Dean
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Bat Masterson & the Red River War: German Family Ambush
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Show Notes

On September 11, 1874, the John German family, consisting of his wife and seven children, were attacked by a band of Cheyenne east of Ft. Wallace, Kansas. Only four of the children, Catherine, Sophia, Julia, and Adelaide, were spared and taken captive. The two youngest, Julia and Adelaide (aged 7 and 5), were subsequently abandoned on the prairie in what is now the Texas panhandle. Catherine and Sophia were kept by their Cheyenne captors. Wild west Podcast proudly presents the story of the German Family ambush with our special guest afterwords - Mr. Scott Dean. 

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