Campfire Stories of Indian Qiaracter 547 



These were all that remained out of the sixty unaccounted 

 for after the fighting near Fort Robinson, excepting five 

 or six bucks, among them Chief Dull Knife, who had been 

 cut off from the main band in the first night's fight and had 

 escaped to the Sioux. 



And among the Ogallala Sioux thereafter, till he died, 

 dwelt Dull Knife, grim and silent as Sphinx or dumb man; 

 brooding his wrongs; cursing the fate that had denied him 

 the privilege to die fighting with his people; sitting alone 

 daily for hours on the crest of a Wounded Knee bluff rising 

 near his teepee, and gazing longingly across the wide 

 reaches of the Bad Lands to a faint blue line, on the north- 

 western horizon, that marked his old highland home in the 

 Black HiUs. 



