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stand. Towards evening of that day other Indians began to arrive. A 

 wagon train, carrying tlie United States fiag as a banner, was reported 

 approaching from the sonth by the Butte Creelc Agency wagon road. At 

 once the braves in war paint and feathers made a mimic raid on horse 

 back upon the train, treating it as an immigrant train. Tlie would-be 

 immigrants, on seeing the painted savages charging furiously towards 



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them from a slight rise of ground, hurriedly unhitclied their horses, put 

 them and their families in the rear and made a breastworlv of their 

 wagons. Then they waited the onslaught. This came almost imme- 

 diately. Guns were fired in all directions, and the blood curdling war- 

 whoop tilled the air. In fact it looked so much like a real battle that 

 many of the Indian women wei'e scared. For some minutes the sham 

 battle raged, then the wagon train surrendered. The wagons were again 

 hitched to, and the train was taken into cam]) by the captors. 



Nothing further of interest happened till dawn the next morning. 

 Then tlKM'c was an elaborate parade, followed by religious services con- 



