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Updated: June 22, 2025

That morning we pulled for Steen's Mountain, which we supposed to be about forty miles from where we were camped. Not being able to ride horseback, I rode in one of the ambulances. From here we kept guards out on each side of the trail, with orders to keep from five to six miles from the train, and if any Indians were seen to report at once. The second day in the afternoon Capt.

William F. Drannan - Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains : An Authentic Record of a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the Far West

There even are likenesses in the color-schemes of the two painters, Jordaen's silvery yellows for once meeting their match; but we find in Steen's picture a more subtle discrimination in the characters and temperaments lying beneath the physical features of the gay company.

Elisabeth Luther Cary - Artists Past and Present: Random Studies

In this engagement four of Captain Steen's men were killed and seven wounded. He took no prisoners and gave no quarters. Kerr then returned to Mecklenburg county, and soon after joined Colonel Williams' command as a spy. Captain Steen informed Colonel Williams that he might safely rely upon Kerr in this kind of service.

C. L. Hunter - Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical

"Ranaway, a negro woman named Maria has a scar on one side of her cheek, by a cut some scars on her back." Mr. Leonard Miles, Steen's Creek, Rankin county, Mi. in the "Southern Sun", Sept. 22, 1838 "Ranaway, Gabriel has two or three scars across his neck made with a knife." Mr. Bezou, New Orleans, in the "Bee" May 23, 1838.

American Anti-Slavery Society - The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4