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erable affluents of the South fork, la Fourche aux Castors, (Beaver 
fork,) heading off in the ridge to the southeast.” (Fremont, (1), pp. 
29-30.) This would have been near the eastern boundary of the 
present Morgan County, Colorado, a region approaching the western 
edge of the great prairie, in the midst of the range of vast herds of 
buffalo. The entire description of the events of the day as prepared 
by Fremont reads more like fiction than fact and is one of the clear- 
est and most concise accounts extant of a buffalo hunt by native 
tribes under such conditions. The paintings by Stanley and Wimar, 
as reproduced in plates 2 and 3, would serve to illustrate Fremont’s 
narrative. 
The following year (1843) Fremont, on his second expedition, 
reached St. Vrain’s Fort; thence continuing up the South Fork of 
the Platte he soon arrived in the vicinity of the present city of Den- 
ver, and at some point not far below the mouth of Cherry Creek 
discovered a large Arapaho village. This was on July 7, 1843, and 
to quote from his journal: ‘“‘ We made this morning an early start, 
continuing to travel up the Platte; and in a few miles frequent 
bands of horses and mules, scattered for several miles round about, 
indicated our approach to the Arapaho village, which we found 
encamped in a beautiful bottom, and consisting of about 160 lodges. 
It appeared extremely populous, with a great number of children; 
a circumstance which indicated a regular supply of the means of 
subsistence. The chiefs, who were gathered together at the farther 
end of the village, received us (as probably strangers are always 
received to whom they desire to show respect or regard) by throw- 
ing their arms. around our necks and embracing us...I saw 
here, as I had remarked in an Arapaho village the preceding year, 
near the lodges of the chiefs, tall tripods of white poles supporting 
their spears and shields. which showed it to be a regular custom . . . 
Though disappointed in obtaining the presents which had been evi- 
dently expected, they behaved very courteously, and after a little 
conversation, I left them, and, continuing up the river, halted to 
noon on the bluff, as the bottoms are almost inundated; continuing 
in the afternoon our route along the mountains, which are dark, 
misty, and shrouded.” (Fremont, (1), pp. 111-112.) 
A photograph of a smal] Arapaho village, standing in Whitewood 
. Canyon, Wyoming, about the year 1870, is moroaead in plate 16, 0. 
The skin-covered lodges shown in this photograph were probably 
similar to those sketched by Bodmer a generation before. 
SAUK AND FOXES. 
It is not the purpose of the present sketch to trace the early 
migrations of the two related tribes, or to refer to their connection, 
