62 ADVENTURES OF DR. ALLEN. 



CHAPTER V. 



OUSTER'S LAST BATTLE The battlefield today "Here is where Custer Fell" 

 The brave attack 360 soldiers charge 6000 Indian warriors all of the 

 soldiers killed Indian warriors Sitting Bull Gaul Rain-in-the-Face 

 the scene of the contest examined the Custer monument descrip- 

 tion of the battle and Indian customs. 



On the morning of August i8th we were camped on 

 the Little Horn River, just opposite Custer 's battlefield. 

 Our teams were exhausted after a long trip and we held 

 a council at which we decided to remain here long enough 

 to rest our weary animals. Our tents were soon pitched in 

 the valley where Sitting Bull and his warriors had camped. 

 Buffalo bones, elk heads and deer antlers were strewn over 

 the valley and along the river front, while the bent-willow 

 sweat-lodges were still standing, with the rounded pile of 

 small boulders, just as they had been left by the red man. 

 The earth still showed small trenches where the large, round 

 tepees had stood, and the stakes and picket pins were still 

 in the ground. After a careful survey of the valley we de- 

 cided to cross the river and examine the battlefield. 



On the seventh of June, 1876, General Crook had 

 struck Sitting Bull and put him to flight after a severe 

 thrashing. This so humiliated the Indian chief that he sent 

 runners to the Northern Cheyennes asking them to join 

 him at once on the Little Horn, whose waters were already 

 rising from melting snows. 



His scouts had located General Custer at the mouth of 



