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Roger C Griffith

The U S Army maintained the defense of the railroad, including with the help of Pawnee tribes against the Cheyenne and Lakota. There were indian raids, but they never amounted to major attacks, just hit and run on isolated parties usually surveyors and engineers.

Roger C Griffith

Also repeating rifles were rare and uncommon at this time, expensive and used by the few that could afford them!