The Year of Indian Violence

Captain Joe Walker no doubt knew about his brother, Joel's plans and travels.  He had many friends and contacts who would have updated him about his brother.  During this time Joe returned from California, stopped to pick up his wife, rest his horses and then set off for Missouri.  Stopping on the present day Wyoming-Colorado-Nebraska border to make buffalo jerky.

The summer of 1841 was a violent one where Indians were concerned. The Cheyenne attacked a wagon train.  The Sioux harassed a party of traders and attacked a settlement in Iowa where they took 14 Delaware scalps.  A band of Osage returning to Missouri from a hunting and fishing trip in Texas, brought back 2 white women as captives that they have purchased from the Comanche.

The white man and Indian relationship was changing - and next time we look at the two eras of their relationship.