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River, towards the sources of Chayenne River and the Rocky Moun- 
tains. These Indians are a wandering tribe of hunters, who neither 
dwell in fixed villages, like the Mandans, Manitaries, and Arikkaras, 
nor make any plantations except of tobacco, which, however, are very 
small . . . They roam about with their leather tents, hunt the buffalo, 
and other wild animals, and have many horses and dogs, which, how- 
ever, they never use for food . . . The Crow women are very skilful in 
various kinds of work, and their shirts and dresses of bighorn leather, 
embroidered and ornamented with dyed porcupine quills, are partic- 
ularly handsome, as well as their buffalo robes, which are painted and. 
embroidered in the same manner.” . (Op. cit., pp. 174-175.) 
During the spring of 1863 a peculiar type of log house was dis- 
covered in the Crow country which had probably been erected by 
members of that tribe. They may have resembled the cabins men- 
tioned by Matthews as standing at the Fort Berthold Reservation 
nine years later. On May 2, 1863, a member of the Yellowstone expe- 
dition entered in his journal: “In the timber along the river, we 
saw many houses built of dry logs and bark; some are built like 
lodges, but the most of them are either square or oblong, and among 
them were many large and strong corrals of dry logs. The Crows 
evidently winter along here, and, from the sign, they are very nu- 
merous.” ‘The following day, “ We camped three miles below Pom- 
pey’s Pillar, on which we found the names of Captain Clark and two 
of his men cut in the rock, with the date July 25, 1806 . . . Buffalo 
to be seen in every direction, and very tame ... No wonder the 
Crows like their country; it is a perfect paradise for a hunter... 
About sundown a large.band of buffalo came in to drink at a water- 
hole about two hundred yards in front of our camp.” (Stuart, (1), 
pp. 176-178.) This may have represented a winter camp ground, 
with permanent huts to which the Crows returned from year to year. 
It was in the northeastern part of the present Yellowstone County, 
Montana. ; 
A very interesting description of a Crow camp is to be found in 
Lord Dunraven’s narrative of his hunting trip to the Yellowstone 
region performed during the year 1874. The particular camp stood 
not far from the present Livingston, Montana. In describing the 
camp he wrote: “ The lodges are tall, circular dwellings, composed of 
long fir-poles planted on a circle in the ground. These slope inwards 
and form a cone, meeting and leaning against each other at the apex; 
and upon them is stretched a covering of buffalo hides. They make 
very comfortable, clean and airy houses, and are far preferable to 
any tent, being much warmer in winter and cooler in summer. A 
tepee will hold from twelve to fifteen or even twenty individuals; 
several families, therefore, generally occupy one in common. The 
