One for you Old West history buffs

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I wonder how he felt about post Civil War politics Johnson, Grant, Benjamin Harrison?....and where's that apple? Right next to the tree?

Harrison, a Republican, was elected to the presidency in 1888, defeating Democratic incumbent Grover Cleveland. His administration is most remembered for economic legislation, including the McKinley Tariff and the Sherman Antitrust Act, and for annual federal spending that reached one billion dollars for the first time. Democrats attacked the "Billion Dollar Congress", and used the issue, along with the growing unpopularity of the high tariff, to defeat the Republicans, both in the 1890 mid-term elections and in Harrison's bid for re-election in 1892. He also saw the admittance of six states into the Union

My how times have changed..

I don't know, but my Dads Father (The outlaws nephew ) thought the sun rose and set in FDR's butt, while his FIL, (My Grand Mothers Father ) thought "Ruse-velt" was a "damned communist".  

[Timothy]

Buffalo Bill Cody Autobiography, personal account of his capture of Bill Bevins in 1872

"Bevins's flight was the most remarkable feat of its kind I have ever heard of. A man who could run barefooted in the snow through a prickly-pear patch was surely a "tough one." When I looked at the man's bleeding foot I really felt sorry for him. He asked me for my knife, and when I gave it to him he dug the thorns out of his foot with its sharp point. I consider him the gamest man I ever met.

I could not suffer a man with such a foot to walk, so I dismounted, and he rode my horse back to camp, while Green and I rode the other horse by turns. We kept a close watch on our prisoner. We had had plenty of proof that he needed it. His injured foot must have pained him fearfully, but never a word of complaint escaped him."

I was told this was a distant relative but never confirmed it...

I doubt politics mattered much..

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Good or bad they were type of tough old birds that country needed.
"Portuguese" Phillips  is an example

http://philkearny.vcn.com/phillips.htm

Following the annihilation of Capt. William J. Fetterman and his command on December 21, Phillips volunteered to ride to the telegraph office at Horseshoe Station on the North Platte with Col. Henry B. Carrington's dispatches, about 190 miles in subzero weather.  While the general story is that he rode alone on this perilous mission, Phillips was in fact accompanied by one Daniel Dixon to Fort Reno and by others along the way, including Robert Bailey.  The pay for the service was $300 apiece for Phillips and Dixon, which they received in January, 1867.

According to the telegrapher at Horseshoe Station, Phillips, Dixon, and Robert Bailey arrived about 10 a.m. on December 25, when the dispatches were wired to the headquarters of the Department of the Platte in Omaha and to Washington.  To deliver the message from Wessells to Palmer, Phillips went on to Fort Laramie, arriving at 11 p.m., where a full dress ball was in progress.   The appearance of the huge form of Phillips, garbed in a buffalo overcoat, pants, gauntlets, and cap, quieted the festivities, and his message caused preparations for a rescue party, delayed in departing by deeps snows until January 6.  In addition to receiving his pay, Phillips was given the best horse in Company F of the 2nd Cavalry.