mali.ert] DAKOTA WINTER COUNTS, 1827-1832. 115 



were killed. Nothing in the sign denotes number, it being only a man- 

 figure with red or bloody body and red war bonnet. 



No. III. Twenty Crow and one Cheyenne Indians killed by Dakotas 

 at Bear Butte. 



Mato Sapa says: One Cheyenne and twenty Crows were killed by Da- 

 kotas at Bear Butte. 



Major Bush says the same as Mato Sapa. 



lS31-'32. — No. I. Two white men killed by a white man at Medicine 

 Creek, below Tort Sully. 



No. II. Le Beau, a white man, killed another named Kennel. An- 

 other copy reads Kennel. Le Beau was still alive at Little Bend, 30 

 miles above Fort Sully, in 1877. 



No. III. Trader named Le Beau killed one of his employes on Big 

 Cheyenne River, below Cherry Creek. 



1832-'33.— No. I. Lone-Horn's father broke his leg. 



No. II. Lone-Horn had his leg "killed," as the interpretation gave it. 

 The single horn is on the figure, and a leg is drawn up as if fractured 

 or distorted, though not unlike the leg in the character for lS08-'09, 

 where running is depicted. 



No. III. A Minneconjou Dakota, Lone-Horn's father, had his leg 

 broken while running buffalo. 



Mato Sapa and Major Bush also say Lone-Horn's father. 



Battiste Good says: "Stiff-leg-Witk- war- bonnet-on-died winter." He 

 was killed in an engagement with the Pawnees on the Platte Eiver. 



White-Cow-Killer calls it " One-Horn's-leg-broken winter." 



In Catlin's "North American Indians," New York, 1844, Vol. I, page 

 211, the author, writing from themouth of Teton Biver, Upper Missouri, 

 site of Fort Pierre, described Ha-won-je-tah, The One-Horn, head chief 

 of all the bands of the Dakotas, which were about twenty. He was a 

 bold, middle-aged man of medium stature, noble countenance, and fig- 

 ure almost equalling an Apollo. His portrait was painted by Catlin in 

 1832. He took the name of One-Horn, or One-Shell, from a simple 

 small shell that was hanging on his neck, which descended to him from 

 his father, and which he valued more than anything else which he pos- 

 sessed, and he kept that name in preference to many others more hon- 

 orable which he had a right to have taken, from his many exploits. 



On page 221, the same author states, that after being the accidental 

 cause of the death of his only son, Lone Born became at times partially 

 insane. One day he mounted his war-horse, vowing to kill the first 

 living thing he should meet, and rode to the prairies. The horse came 

 back in two hours afterwards, with two arrows in him covered with 

 blood. His tracks were followed back, and the chief was found man- 

 gled and gored by a buffalo bull, the carcass of which was stretched 

 beside him. He had driven away the horse with his arrows and killed 

 the bull with his knife. 



