The savages broke them up and used the wheels for jewelry.

They even offered the Canadians for trade boots, hats, and clothing taken from the bodies of Custer's men.
The Modoc war against the warriors of Captain Jack in 1873 was waged in the lava beds of Oregon, and it had the distinction of being one of the first Indian wars to be well reported in the newspapers.

We heard a great deal of the long and trying campaigns waged by the Army in revenge for the murder of General Canby in his council tent.

We got small glory out of that war, perhaps, but at last we hanged the ringleader of the murderers; and the extreme Northwest remained free from that time on.
Far in the dry Southwest, where home-building man did not as yet essay a general occupation of the soil, the blood-thirsty Apache long waged a warfare which tried the mettle of our Army as perhaps no other tribes ever have done.

The Spaniards had fought these Apaches for nearly three hundred years, and had not beaten them.