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river, as she was continually running on to sandbars. Here I saw 

 some old women belonging to the same tribe which had given 

 me so much trouble in Minnesota in 1863. It seems that after 

 the thirty-three Indians had been hung at Mankato for having 

 shared in the Minnesota massacre, a number of the Sioux 

 gave themselves up; and the Government not knowing what 

 to do with them, they were sent up to Fort Berthold, on the 

 Missouri south of Buford, where within two years they were 

 all killed off by the Sheyennes and Blackfeet, the one tribe 

 hunting to the north and the other to the south of that 

 Fort, and now only these few women remained of a party 

 numbering from seven to eight hundred. 



Two days from Buford took us to Carroll, a very small place 

 on the south bank of the river, consisting of three whiskey- 

 saloons, about five small dwelling-houses, and a big store- 

 house belonging to the Steamboat Company. Here I found 

 Colonel Clendenin waiting for me, and a pony had been left 



in his charge on which I could follow Colonel P , who had 



started two days before. 



I arrived at night, and made up my bed on the floor of the 

 storehouse, where Colonel Clendenin also slept. In the course 

 of the night we were woke by some loud yells followed by a 

 shot, and in the morning heard that a lieutenant of cavalry 

 and six men were here, who had been sent to a large Bannock 

 Indian camp, where they were to remain and see that none of 

 the hostile portion of that tribe came into the camp, but 

 finding that slow work, the lieutenant had brought his men 

 to Carroll, where they were having what they called a a good 

 time " playing cards and drinking whiskey ; and during the 

 previous night, the lieutenant being drunk had fired at one of 



