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THE GHOST-DANCE RELICION 



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miles southwest of the agency and Fort Yates, and couriers were at 

 once dispatched to these and to others in that direction to concentrate 

 at Sitting Bull's house, ready to make the arrest in the morning. It 

 was then sundown, but with loyal promptness the police mounted their 

 ponies and by riding all night from one station to another assembled a 

 force of 43 trained and determined Indian police, including four volun- 

 teers, at the rendezvous on Grand river before daylight. In perform- 

 ing this courier service Sergeant lied Tomahawk covered the distance 

 of 40 miles between the agency and the camp, over an unfamiliar road, 



I'h. 7t'i— Red Tomahawk. 



in four hours and a quarter; and another, Hawk .Alan, made 100 miles, 

 by a roundabout way, in twenty two hours. In the meantime two 

 troops of the Eighth cavalry, numbering' 100 men, under command of 

 Captain E. (!. Kechct, and having with them a Hotchkiss gun, left Fort 

 Fates at midnight, guided by Louis Primeau, and by a rapid night 

 march arrived within supporting distance near Sitting Hull's camp just 

 before daybreak. It was afterward learned that Sitting Bull, in antici- 

 pation of such action, had had a strong guard about his house for his 

 protection for several nights previous, but on this particular night the 



