![]() ![]() ![]() In the summer of 1864, the freight company had a wagon train leave Fort Leavenworth bound for Fort Union, and Robert was one of the teamsters working on this wagon train. Desperate for work, Robert took a job with a freight company to take supplies to Fort Union in New Mexico. Once in Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, Robert applied to join the army, but he was not accepted, because he was too young. Somewhere on the trail, Robert’s parents died, and he became an orphan. The family joined a wagon train heading to Leavenworth, Kansas. In 1864, 14-year-old Robert McGee and his family decided to migrate west, as was the custom of many emigrants of the day, to seek a better life on the American Frontier. This is the story of how Robert McGee was scalped in the summer of 1864 by Sioux Indian warriors and lived to tell the tale. Henry took this rare photograph of Robert McGee displaying his scalping scars. Robert McGee is one of the few people in American frontier history to survive having his flesh ripped from his skull. Survivor Robert McGee was scalped as a child in 1864 by Sioux. ![]()
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