Simpson Everett Stilwell was a United States Army Scout, Deputy U.S. Marshal, police judge, and U.S. Commissioner in Oklahoma during the American Old West. He served in Major George A. Forsyth's company of scouts when it was besieged during the Battle of Beecher Island by Indian Cheyenne Chief Roman Nose and was instrumental in bringing relief to the unit.
Simpson E. Stilwell
The Battle of Beecher Island, also known as the Battle of Arikaree Fork, was an armed conflict between elements of the United States Army and several of the Plains Native American tribes in September 1868. Beecher Island, on the Arikaree River, then known as part of the North Fork of the Republican River, near present-day Wray, Colorado, was named afterwards for Lieutenant Fredrick H. Beecher, an army officer killed during the battle.
Roman nose is shot (from an 1895 book)
Defending the Island One soldier and three horses have fallen, while others continue to wage the battle.
In the pits An officer hands a wounded soldier water as another man drinks from a pool, while a third prepares to fire his rifle.
Chief Roman Nose Roman Nose, on horseback, taunts the U.S. soldiers as a group of spectators on horseback cheer him on.
