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of the United States Army that could be concentrated to 

 oppose them ; a march that struck and parted like ropes of 

 sand the five great military barriers interposed across their 

 path; the first across the Kansas Pacific Railway, com- 

 manded by General Pope; the second along the Union 

 Pacific Railroad in Nebraska, commanded by General 

 Crook; the third along the Niobrara, conmianded by General 

 Bradley; the fourth, the Bear Butte (Seventh Cavalry) 

 column, stretched east from the Black Hills; the fifth along 

 the Yellowstone, commanded by General Gibbon. 



But Dull Knife and his band of those less able to travel — 

 some one hundred and fifty — were still in the Sandhills. 

 He sent an urgent prayer to Red Cloud of the Sioux for 

 help, but the sad answer was that it was hopeless to resent 

 the President's will. Ten days later the troops located the 

 Cheyennes. 



{From this to the end is quoted from Bronson.) 



In rags, nearly out of ammunition, famished and worn, 

 with scarcely a horse left that could raise a trot, no longer 

 able to fight or fly, suffering from cold and disheartened by 

 Red Cloud's refusal to receive and shelter them, the splen- 

 did old war chief and his men were forced to bow to the 

 inevitable and surrender. 



Later in the day Johnson succeeded in rounding up the 

 last of Dull Knife's scattered command and headed north 

 for White River with his prisoners, one hundred and forty- 

 nine Cheyennes and one hundred and thirty-one captured 

 ponies. 



The evening of the twenty-fourth, Johnson camped at 

 Louis Jenks's ranch on Chadron Creek, near the present 

 town of Chadron, Neb. 



