This Day…
1877 – Charlie Reed and Billy Bland shot up a saloon and two deputies in Fort Griffin, Texas. Bland was killed in the gunplay but Reed stole a horse and left Texas. On this day in 1891 – tensions continued to mount at Wounded Knee. General Nelson A. Miles, commander of the US troops at the massacre at Wounded Knee in December 1890, announced that the Sioux were finally returning to their reservation. Ghost Dancers had appeared from as far away as Oklahoma, and Indians from Montana had joined the camping Sioux – who made the last successful attack on a wagon train on 6 January – but by the 19th all the Sioux would be back at the Pine Ridge Reservation. The Ghost Dance movement would survive there throughout the year, and continue to cause some concern.
