Captive at Custer's Washita Fight: Clara Blinn 

It was not uncommon for Native Tribes to trade around white captives amongst themselves. Due to the proximity of these camps, it would not be unreasonable to believe Clara was seen in all 3 camps on the Washita. What gets me is the different descriptions of the dead body of Clara. One says she was nude, one describes Native garb & the third says she was wearing her own dress.

This is a stunnin Liberia analysis of the whole Clara bin story. You're researchers have done their job admirably. I am not familiar with other than the most superficial aspects of the story . You have turned it into an epic that brought tears to my eyes.

Great job Siobhan, very well researched!

This is very well researched and narrated! A+

Very very enjoyable. They were hard times back then . It's great research, and your narration is always fantastic. I love your voice . Love and respect from Dublin Ireland 🫶🇮🇪☘️

Had me almost biting my nails!!!!!! What an amazing storyteller!!!!!!

Thanks for bringing us this story. Heartbreaking. To be so close to freedom and reunion with her husband and yet to be so far. If this was a movie, people would say..."That's Hollywood", but it was real life.

Superb as always 👏👏👏 Keep up your excellent work 👍

Great job! I live 40 minutes from Perrysburg. I am reading Nathaniel Philbrick's "The Last Stand". On page 132-139 he covers The Battle of the Washita. Philbrick makes no mention of Clara and her son. There is nothing in the notes in the back of the book either. I felt like the book was pretty even handed till I got to this chapter (chapter 8). Allegations of dishonorable troop behavior concerning Monahsetah and the Cheyenne women gets attention, but there is not one word about the Blinn family. I also saw an recent interview of Nathaniel Philbrick on the Chris Hedges report concerning Custer. Based on the interview it seems Philbrick has lost any semblance of fair treatment concerning Custer. He has adopted the opinion that Custer is "a monster" used as a poster boy for American Impirialism and perpetuation of systemic racism. 🙄

Hi ! Thank very much for your hard work in all your presentations ! I love history ! ❤

This one was tough to get through. Almost went into tears listening to you very skillfully resurrect these folks. Hemingway sais that every true story ends in death. I believe you may have proved that point.

For months, I thought I was the last person to ever care for Mrs. Clara Blinn and her son. I never known what happned to her husband, now I can rest well with the knowledge of what happned. Ms./Mrs. Fallon, thank you! You have helped answer my prayers for knowledge. If ever you see this, how exactly did you come to learn of Mrs. Blinn?

Hey Siobhan, Aces! Presentations keep getting better and better, and more scholarly (in a good way). And heartrending, e.g. your reading of Richard Blinn’s journal. … IMHO, as you become accomplished historian right before our eyes, with novelist’s touch, may I dare expect arrival of our new Evan S. Connell Jr. ?😁 👍

Bless you for your research.

Well done nice to see a story showing why the 7th was there to begin with.

Ms. Fallon would have made a great history teacher at any level. A disturbing similarity to Jeff Broome's book entitled Dog Soldier Justice: The Ordeal of Susanna Alderdice in the Kansas Indian War. A compelling read.

Excellent Video. I could´nt imagne how many times this happend during this times.

Really enjoying your you tube series on LBH, please keep it up, your enthusiasm makes them even more interesting, compared to some of the 'staid' lectures that are on here.

That was amazing. In reality, we cannot be sure who is in those two graves

I would think most people would not expose their families to the Indian raids at that time in history

Very good video.

Very informative. You present stories not much known in Europe. My US relatives have told me about what happend with some of their ancestors and family that arrived from 1850 - 1900. So in my family three we have persons killed by indians and during the Civil War. I need to do some research on them. Thank's for sharing these stories.

I know what it's like. I'm researching a wagon train "massacre" in SW Alberta reportedly involving people from one of the Fisk wagon trains from Minnesota to Montana. Same thing where the dates given and the events don't match up. So frustrating knowing it will never be clear.

The photo on the right is most often is attributed to Rachel Plummer, captive of the Sioux.

PEOPLE NOWADAYS CAN'T FATHOM THE SCRIFICES MADE BY THE WOMEN OF THE OLD WEST!!!!!

It’s interesting that this is the soldiers all went past your body to identify her. But if you look at the Wikipedia story they say her body wasn’t found till 2 weeks later. Dead body would be unrecognizable I would think

Your history, presentation and references are all so good and enjoyable to learn. I am puzzled why so many people who were involved and wrote their own narratives differed so much in detail. Satanta may or may not have been recognized and may or may not have been present during the attack and abduction of Clara and Willie. It is not inconceivable that, being an ally of the Cheyennes, he and some Kiowas participated. It does seem evident that Clara and Willie were captured and kept by Cheyennes. Her statement in the initial note that "We are with them" seemed out of place unless she was being specific that she was not with another tribe that may have been along for the attack (re Satanta and Kiowas). Black Kettle not turning Clara over at the fort could have understandably been Black Kettle holding his Ace card for a strategic trade or concession later. It is fun to speculate some, but only when you have the best information available. A tragic fate for a beautiful pioneer family. Thanks for the history lesson and keep them coming!

At around 45 secs, the third photo on right is, I think, Rachel Plummer. Came across inadvertently while scrolling similar topics on RU-vid

There are stories of the scout in this book.

This was not an easy account to watch--especially where she is taken captive. A trip with 8 wagons and 10 men was a dangerous undertaking at that time. With the understanding that anything can go wrong in battle, I still have serious issues with how she was taken captive. Each man should have had two pistols and a rifle and ready for attack at any moment. Even in mostly open country, the Indians may have used a ridge or something to help surprise the wagon train. Keeping the wagons together(even if it meant shooting panicked horses) was the key. Even outnumbered 75 to 10, they had a real chance to stop the attack before everything went south if they had laid down heavy rifle fire from the beginning. Lack of planning, not taking taking extreme action without regard for their own lives--they failed this woman and her young son.

Today or recently the Fort Hays Kansas Facebook showed a photo of Cheyenne captives that were brought to Ft Hays, after Washita. Among the Cheyenne was a two years old White Child. Could this be Clara’s little boy? They showed a photo and I think I can see a White child. Your thoughts,

Thats a very heartbraking story...my first thoughts are: how can Cara Blinn be sure to be in a Cheyenne Camp...she is captured...departed from her hasband...a 2 year old child...i dont want to imagine what they done to her...maybe she was confused...dont understand the language...maybe the Native American Indians spoke a bad English...a great missunderstanding of languages and Cultures...i think that Black Kettle wanted to protect his Peoble...its very tragic what happened to her...i think that she is in a better world now with her shield... Did you know that the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Kiowa and Comanche build a great Peace Treaty in 1840...i think that their cultures are melted over the years...a very difficult situation for the white culture to understand everything back in the days...

Cbs did a "based on truth" movie covering Anna Brewster Morgan and other true Indian captives, and in typical modern style totally lied just for some political agenda. These women were brutally gang raped repeatedly and beaten. Anna Bewster Morgan + Mrs White had a value of 15 horses at first, but after they were raped and passed around so much their value went do to two horses. Its just horrible when you think about it. And the poor husband who finally got his wife back and she was pregnant with who knows who's child he was forced to raise. Their marriage obviously failed after that and Anna went crazy and died at mental institution. According to CBS tho Anna loved the Indian Chief and just wanted to be back with him and not her actual real husband. I so applaud anyone telling the real truth about real history. Only thru understanding the past can we help the future. Our schooling systems have intentionally done tremendous damage to our kids by lying to them about what really happened for a political agenda and inverted reality. How can we confront the complexities of modernity while we dumb down the past to "good guy vs bad guy" and cover up what really happened? 🤔

Its an interesting narrative. I wish that anthropology wash already an academic pursuit at this time because, in my opinion, these tribes were the last of pre history people. We. Always view them as westerners, not that its wrong; we just.lose sight of their world.

Nice! But the background music is very distracting

Sad story, seemingly not uncommon in Native and white interaction. God rest them

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That photo is not of clara blinn not the one youre talking about at least. Not even close to looking like her.

This was a very sad story, but had the white people stayed out of Native Americans land, then so many white lives would have been saved. I feel sorry for the people who were killed, on both sides, I have blood of the Native Americans I also have Irish, Scottish and Dutch blood, so I believe you can see it is hard to take a certain side.

I’m blown away by the tenacity and grit of your ability to unravel all the different components of these narratives and deliver solid research in your video. Well done!