Wild West Podcast proudly presents Hancock's War, The Edmund Guerrier Story an unprecedented season of violence on the plains of Kansas. Settlers, overland travelers, and railroad construction crews in post-Civil War Kansas were becoming increasingly uneasy due to numerous Indian raids. The Cheyenne, Sioux, Arapaho, and Kiowa warriors had become so defiant in the early months of 1867 that they informed certain army officers that as soon as spring came, travel on the various overland routes must cease. Although the Indian agents insisted that the Kansans were overreacting to the situation, Major General Winfield S. Hancock, commander of the Department of the Missouri, decided to do something about the alarming situation. He informed the various Indian agents that he was organizing an expedition to convince the tribes that he could punish any of them who may molest travelers across the plains or commit other hostilities against the whites.  The following story is based on David Dixon's article entitled "A Scout with Custer: Edmund Guerrier on the Hancock Expedition of 1867.” You can purchase the book Trails, Forts, Treaties and Indian Wars at Amazon.com