A successful War Party Celebrating Victory - The Scalp Dance From the Book ' Our wild Indians; thirty-three years' personal experience among the red men of the great West ' by Richard Irving Dodge, Richard Irving Dodge (May 19, 1827 – June 16, 1895) was a colonel in the United States Army. Dodge was born in North Carolina[1] and died after a long and successful career in the U.S. Army. He began as a cadet in 1844 and retired as a Colonel May 19, 1891. Published  A. D. Worthington and Company, 1883, Hartford, Conn. Stock Photo