September 13

Battle of Turkey Springs (Cheyenne)

This battle occurred three days into the Northern Cheyenne Exodus, in which 353 Cheyenne people escaped Darlington Agency Oklahoma where they had been forcibly relocated from their homelands in Monta…

Oberlin-Wellington Rescue

On this day in 1859, John Price, who had recently escaped enslavement, was kidnapped by a US Marshall (Federal Police) who sought to return him to his enslavers under the Fugitive Slave Act in Oberli…