Comments - Mountain Man Thomas Fitzpatrick: Legendary 'Broken Hand' - The Wild Geese2024-03-29T08:19:04Zhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=6442157%3ABlogPost%3A215275&xn_auth=noYes as we look back on histor…tag:thewildgeese.irish,2017-04-28:6442157:Comment:2161002017-04-28T11:58:31.066ZThat's Just How It Washttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/MaryThorpe
<p>Yes as we look back on history, there is so much injustice -... It is nice to see it highlighted hereon the wonderful forum taht we have .. Teh Wild Geese </p>
<p>Yes as we look back on history, there is so much injustice -... It is nice to see it highlighted hereon the wonderful forum taht we have .. Teh Wild Geese </p> Thanks, Mary. Fitzpatrick sho…tag:thewildgeese.irish,2017-04-28:6442157:Comment:2163172017-04-28T02:45:38.077ZJoe Gannonhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/JoeGannon
<p>Thanks, Mary. Fitzpatrick should be far more well known in the US than he is. The failure of the Treaty of Laramie reminds me of the failure of the Treaty of Limerick. Both held the possibility of a just peace within them, but were broken.</p>
<p>Thanks, Mary. Fitzpatrick should be far more well known in the US than he is. The failure of the Treaty of Laramie reminds me of the failure of the Treaty of Limerick. Both held the possibility of a just peace within them, but were broken.</p> My Brother who lives in Calga…tag:thewildgeese.irish,2017-04-27:6442157:Comment:2162652017-04-27T11:42:14.111ZThat's Just How It Washttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/MaryThorpe
<p>My Brother who lives in Calgary... has a lot of these painting, that highlight what the native peoples ha dto endure... Lovely piece </p>
<p>My Brother who lives in Calgary... has a lot of these painting, that highlight what the native peoples ha dto endure... Lovely piece </p> "The Greeting," by Alfred Jac…tag:thewildgeese.irish,2017-04-13:6442157:Comment:2156462017-04-13T13:51:33.684ZJoe Gannonhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/JoeGannon
<p>"The Greeting," by Alfred Jacob Miller. A rendezvous of old friends, mountain style. Miller's patron William Drummond Stewart, on white horse, wears a Scots bonnet in this picture. </p>
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<p>"The Greeting," by Alfred Jacob Miller. A rendezvous of old friends, mountain style. Miller's patron William Drummond Stewart, on white horse, wears a Scots bonnet in this picture. </p>
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<p>“The Trapper's Bride” by Alfred Jacob Miller. A mountain man negotiating a price for an Indian bride.</p>
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<p>“The Trapper's Bride” by Alfred Jacob Miller. A mountain man negotiating a price for an Indian bride.</p>
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<p>"Breaking Up Camp at Sunrise," Alfred Jacob Miller. One of about 200 sketches and watercolors Miller made for his patron, William Drummond Stewart, on the trail and in the mountains the summer of 1837. He later fashioned many into finished oil paintings. Walters Art Museum.…</p>
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<p>"Breaking Up Camp at Sunrise," Alfred Jacob Miller. One of about 200 sketches and watercolors Miller made for his patron, William Drummond Stewart, on the trail and in the mountains the summer of 1837. He later fashioned many into finished oil paintings. Walters Art Museum.</p>
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Friday…tag:thewildgeese.irish,2017-04-13:6442157:Comment:2157192017-04-13T02:47:08.218ZJoe Gannonhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/JoeGannon
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<p>Friday, the Arapaho boy that Fitzpatrick found on the Santa Fe tail in 1831, grew to be quite a fascinating figure of the American west. His Arapaho name was Warshinun, “Black Spot” and he was probably not much more than six in 1831. He recalled later that he had wandered from his village and gotten lost and was nearly starved to death when he saw…</p>
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<p>Friday, the Arapaho boy that Fitzpatrick found on the Santa Fe tail in 1831, grew to be quite a fascinating figure of the American west. His Arapaho name was Warshinun, “Black Spot” and he was probably not much more than six in 1831. He recalled later that he had wandered from his village and gotten lost and was nearly starved to death when he saw Fitzpatrick’s party approaching. Still, his fear of the white men was so strong it caused him to try to hide, but he was seen and taken by Fitzpatrick. He was educated for a time in St. Louis, learning to read, write and speak English during the five years he was in St. Louis. When he returned to live with the Arapaho, after his parents found out he was alive and in St. Louis, his education made him unique among the members of the tribe.</p>
<p>He and Thomas Fitzpatrick met several times during the following decades, and people in whatever group Fitzpatrick was with were always amazed to see the reticent Irishman suddenly greeting an Arapaho warrior like a son.</p>
<p>Friday rose to be prominent warrior. He was involved with numerous battles against the Arapahos tribal enemies, but during the turbulent years of conflict with the US Army that followed, he always resisted the calls to fight them, which may have prevented him from rising higher in the ranks of the tribe. He eventually led a small band of the tribe that he kept out of the catastrophic final battles of the northern plains in the 1870s, when many Arapaho fought with their Sioux and Cheyenne allies. When the tribe was settled on the reservation on the Wind River in Wyoming, he served as the interpreter there for the government. He died in May 1881 of heart decease.</p>
<p>Below, some of chiefs who went to Washington with Fitzpatrick. Friday is on the left.</p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/57440767?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-left" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/57440767?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="350"></img></a> Among the group of “Ashley’s Hundred” who were also engaged in Fitzpatrick’s first Indian fight on June 2, 1823 was Hugh Glass. Glass was wounded in that fight, but was sufficiently recovered in August to accompany a group led by Ashley’s partner, Andrew Henry, headed overland to the upper Missouri. His mauling by a grizzly, abandonment by Jim Bridger and John Fitzgerald, and…</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/57440767?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="350" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/57440767?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="350" class="align-left"/></a>Among the group of “Ashley’s Hundred” who were also engaged in Fitzpatrick’s first Indian fight on June 2, 1823 was Hugh Glass. Glass was wounded in that fight, but was sufficiently recovered in August to accompany a group led by Ashley’s partner, Andrew Henry, headed overland to the upper Missouri. His mauling by a grizzly, abandonment by Jim Bridger and John Fitzgerald, and subsequent harrowing journey back to civilization at Fort Kiowa during that expedition was retold, with several major fictitious additions, as is often the case, in the movie, “The Revenant.”</p>
<p>In some of the accounts years later they named Fitzpatrick as the man who abandoned him rather than Fitzgerald, but Fitzpatrick was many miles away with the group headed by Jedidiah Smith that would later find the south pass through the Rockies.</p>
<p>A few of the major inaccuracies: Glass had no Indian son with him; many accounts say he traveled 350 miles to get to Fort Kiowa, but it was probably closer to 80 miles. Also, he didn’t kill Fitzgerald later. He did track him down, but Fitzgerald had by then enlisted in the U.S. Army, and Glass knew he’d have been tried for murder if he killed him. He did get his rifle back from him though.</p>
<p>Glass was killed by the Arikara in the spring of 1833 while trapping on the Yellow Stone River.</p>