Hunting at High Altitudes 



established June 22, 1867, by Companies H and I, 

 Thirty-first Infantry, under the command of Major 

 N. G. Whistler. It was abandoned August 31, 1883, 

 and was afterward used by the Indian Department 

 for school purposes until about 1903. 



5. Fort Berthold, a trading post, established in the 

 year 1845, an ^ sa id to have been named for Bartholo- 

 mew Berthold, a Tyrolese, one of the officials of the 

 American Fur Company. 



6. Ankara Indians. The history of the Arikaras 

 is a long one. 



The French fur traders knew them as long ago 

 as 1770. Lewis and Clark met them in 1804, when 

 they were friendly and kindly disposed, but in 1823 

 some of them attacked the boats of the fur trader 

 Ashley, killing thirteen men and wounding others. 

 Colonel Leavenworth was sent to punish them, and 

 after some trouble a peace was finally concluded. This 

 fighting, the attacks of the Sioux, and two years of 

 crop failures, led them to abandon their villages on 

 the Missouri, and to go south and join the Skidi, or 

 Pawnee Loups, on the Loup Fork in Nebraska. They 

 did not get along well with the Skidi, and after two 

 years were requested to leave them. Some of them 

 did so, but probably not all. 



In 1835 the Arikara better known as Rees or 

 some of them, were camped near the forks of the 

 Platte. These people, whether a wandering war party 

 from the Missouri, or a section of the tribe living 

 far from their own home, were apparently at enmity 



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