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He reportedly learned of the massive Lakota and Cheyenne encampment and rode off to warn General Crook but did not arrive in time to prevent the massacre at the Battle of Little Bighorn. He continued to work for Crook as a courier, guide, and scout.
In his full account of his adventures he indicates Professor Henry Newton first hired Henry “Ranger Hank” Wormwood and later Faucett as guides as he continued to study the mines and mountains of the Black Hills in 1877 accompanied by his assistant Zechariah Chafee. He notes that Chafee hunted and fished during the expedition and once got lost after going out to hunt deer and was rescued by Ranger Hank and Faucett. Wolves reportedly surrounded their camp hoping to get some of the venison which the men fought off with their revolvers and Faucett’s “King patent Winchester rifle” (Winchester Model 1866 or 1873). Coyotes then came and ate the dead wolves.
The next day, Faucett claims “a hundred or more wolves followed us” and indicates Chafee used
his own Winchester to wound several which
were then attacked by the remaining wolves.
He notes that Newton complained of feeling ill shortly after this time but continued on for a
week or more until he was convinced to return
to Deadwood for medical attention. Ranger Hank and Faucett remained at the camp as Newton and Faucett returned to Deadwood. While they were away, Ranger Hank led a party of men to help an immigrant train that was attacked by Indians near Spear Fish Stockade and helped them drive off the attackers and guided them back to safety before returning to the camp two miles from the stockade where Faucett remained with the livestock. On August 5, 1877, Ranger Hank went to Deadwood and learned of Newton’s death the same morning. They then returned the government livestock to Deadwood and purchased two horses and wagon to take Newton’s body 300 miles east across the Badlands and plains to Sydney, Nebraska, so that
it could be sent to his family in New York for burial. Chafee joined them for the journey during which they were again beset by wolves and feared being attacked by Native American raiders but made it safely to Sydney, Nebraska, without any serious issues. From there, Chafee and Newton’s body went East while Ranger Hank and Faucett headed back across the badlands.
Faucett worked with a partner named Holden
as Faucett & Holden Freight running freight between Bismarck and Fort Pierre later in 1877 while Wormwood went to Miles City and became a city marshal and died in 1882 from pneumonia. In 1878, Faucett became an Indian trader at the Red Cloud Agency and worked for the Indian Department until the spring of 1879. In 1870, he headed to Leadville, Colorado, to prospect for silver. There he joined the 3rd Colorado Volunteers as a lieutenant and later became the captain of F Company. They were involved in the miners’ strike in Leadville. He soon became a special policeman
and later a detective in Leadville under the gunfighter Mart Duggan who served as the town’s marshal. In 1880, he became a full-time policeman. The following year, he became the city marshal
of the nearby town of Robinson with William
G. Milner as his deputy. In 1882, he was elected
as constable of the 1st Ward and married Mary Young of Leadville. In 1884, he was appointed
city marshal in Leadville and became known as a tough lawman that helped clean up the town and was presented the gold badge of the following lot on July 11th.
Mark Boardman on the True West Magazine blog wrote on January 13, 2022,: “Harvey Faucett is little remembered—and that’s a shame. He was a lawman in Colorado, Montana, Seattle, and even Indiana. Faucett was known as a tough but fair officer, and the towns in which he served cleaned up, fast. He’s probably best known for his work in Leadville. In August 1884, Faucett arrested Doc Holliday in the shooting of Billy Allen. It was the last gunplay for Doc. He was tried and found not guilty by reason of self-defense. For Faucett, it was just another day’s work in a remarkable career.”
He was also a Deputy U.S. Marshal and owned
a produce business in Leadville. In 1887, he was made Deputy Sheriff of Lake County. In 1888,
he was appointed City Marshal of Virginia City, Montana, and then moved to Seattle, Washington, in 1890 and worked as a U.S. Deputy Marshal, Detective for the Seattle Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad Co., and Seattle police department, including capturing Kid Donnelly in 1891 after a pistol duel with Donnelly and his partner during
a burglary attempt and wounded Donnelly and sent him to prison. In 1895, he left Seattle, visited Colorado, and moved back to Elwood, Indiana and worked as Superintendent of Police until 1896 when he moved with his family to Kansas City, Kansas, and was mostly retired although he sold produce at the city market.
By that time, he was well-known. A more fantastic version of the Professor Newton tale was reported in a newspaper on December 19, 1913. Faucett sent his friend Chafee the clipping and noted that if he knew it was going to be published, he would have provided the “proper data.” The newspaper account has the three men fighting for their lives against numerous Native American warriors in a prolonged running fight over the course of nearly 200 miles with Faucett and Wormwood firing
on their assailants with their rifles and revolvers, killing many of their ponies and some of the warriors, including a deadly shot by Faucett at 500 yards before U.S. troops came to their rescue. It notes “When the college ‘kid’ and the long haired scout parted there the ‘kid’ pledged Fawcett his lifelong friendship.
Arapahoe Harvey Faucett dressed in his buckskins and armed to the teeth with a 45- 70 cartridge belt, knife, triple lined cartridge holster, and this rifle presented across his legs
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