In the winter of 1866-67, Lt. Keene led cavalrymen from Fort Sedgwick, Colorado, on a mission to rescue government wood cutters.
After 21 hours without fire or a drink of water, the men marched on. By daybreak, the lieutenant, stopping at a wood chopper’s cabin, learned of a camp farther up with plenty of water and started out again.
Frederic Remington chose to illustrate this moment, recounted in W.J. Carney’s “With Troop M on the Frontier” in the June 1899 McClure’s Magazine:
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