Capture My Heart Quotes

“Colonel, my ass. That rotten Indian hater will only cause more problems out here for the real Army. If the man kept harassing and murdering innocent natives, there would be more Indian attacks and unrest at a time when the Army had few enough men in Colorado or anywhere else in the West to take care of such problems. Even the half-Indian Bent brothers, successful traders and friends to the Army and whites, were growing restless and resentful.”
― Rosanne Bittner, Capture My Heart: prequel to A Warrior's Promise

“Colonel John Chivington, a vicious Indian-hater who committed uncalled-for atrocities against peaceful Southern Cheyenne villages, including the killing and mutilating of women and children. To create excuses for such attacks, gangs of white men began committing raids on their own kind, dressed and behaving as Indians, using”
― Rosanne Bittner, Capture My Heart: prequel to A Warrior's Promise

“Governor Evans had himself given the order that citizens could “shoot on site” any Indian who trespassed”
― Rosanne Bittner, Capture My Heart: prequel to A Warrior's Promise

“white raiders attack their own kind just so it can be blamed on the Cheyenne.” Ansley”
― Rosanne Bittner, Capture My Heart: prequel to A Warrior's Promise

“Colonel, my ass. That rotten Indian hater will only cause more problems out here for the real Army. If the man kept harassing and murdering innocent natives, there would be more Indian attacks and unrest at a time when the Army had few enough men in Colorado or anywhere else in the West to take care of such problems. Even the half-Indian Bent brothers, successful traders and friends to the Army and whites, were growing restless and resentful. Through”
― Rosanne Bittner, Capture My Heart: prequel to A Warrior's Promise

“Chivington and his Third Colorado Regiment wear uniforms and fight the Indians only as an excuse to stay out of the real war going on back East, so they don’t want peace because they won’t have an excuse to stay out of that war.” “Evans”
― Rosanne Bittner, Capture My Heart: prequel to A Warrior's Promise