In this letter to Kansas City Star editor Charles Cecil Howes, S. Shlesinger addresses an article on the Battle of Arickaree that appeared in the January 30, 1927 edition of the Kansas City Star. Shlesinger states that he was not familiar with many of the details mentioned in the story by a man named H.A. Williams. According to Shlesinger, he was a participant at the Battle of Arickaree, and that his friend Jack Stillwell did not kill Roman Nose.