I was doing a little reading last night about the Osage. I hadn't realized that they were so tall. And of course, when they chose to go over and do a little raiding, they routinely kicked Commanche and Kiowa arse.
Who knows how tall they actually were. I've read accounts of them being 7' tall and such and
think that is probably bs. I was friends with one, a half-breed admittedly, and have known a few, living where I do in the heart of the old Osage nation.
The sight of the attack by the Osages on a party of Confederate recruiting officers, lay about ten miles from where we used to live. I think only one of the party of approximately a dozen-and-a-half, escaped and that was the kinsman of Merriwether Lewis, Col. Werner Lewis.
The Osages were mortal enemies of the Comanch and probably prevented many depredations along the Kansas-Missouri border by their presence in the Cross Timbers, which the Comanche and Kiowas raided into.
