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entrance wall. There was a general sentiment of sorrow
for the old Medicine Man who had stood up so fiercely
on the left of the Apache line, we found his stiU warm corpse
crushed out of all semblance to humanity, beneath a huge
mass of rock, which has also extinguished at one fell stroke
the light of the life of the squaw and the young man who
had remained by his side." — ("On the Border with
Crook"; Bourke; pp. 196-9).
Seventy-six, including all the men, were killed. Eigh-
teen women and six children were taken prisoners. Thus
was wiped out a band of heroic men whose victorious foes
admitted that their victims were in the right.
the cheyennes' last fight, or the ending of dull
knife's band
(Condensed by permission from E. B. Bronson's
account as given in "Reminiscences of a Ranchman."
D. P. & Co. This with "The Redblood" by the same
author should be read by all who are interested in the
heroic days of the West.)
After the Custer fight, the American Army succeeded in
rounding up the Indians who could not or would not escape
to Canada, the one land of justice that was near, and
among these were Dull Knife's Cheyennes. They sur-
rendered on promise of fair treatment.
But as soon as they were in the power of the American
Government (President R. B. Hayes), they were marched
six hundred miles south into Indian Territory, where they
were crowded into a region so unhealthy that it was obvi-
ously a question of but three or four years before all would
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