24 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 97 



No. S3 



"In an engagement captures a government horse, and mule, and a 

 scalp." — Kimball. 



"i860. Amid a shower of bullets, which fill the air, Sitting Bull, 

 riding his famous war horse Blackie, runs off two animals from a 

 Crow camp. One of them is a branded Army mule, picked up or 

 stolen by the Crows. These animals Sitting Bull gave for Brown 

 Eyes, the girl who became his fourth wife."^ — Vestal. 



No. 34. 

 "Steals a horse." — Kimball. 



"1866, On the Montana Trail. Sitting Bull takes a horse with 

 a split ear from white men." — Vestal. 



