570 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
VG ve fig, 8LO— captured a train of wagons nea 
Eee ce Fig. 810.—They captured a train of wagons near 
A raat Tongue river. The men who were with it got away. 
zo American-Horse’s Winter Count, 186768. 
Heals The blanket protruding from the front of the wagon 
‘aden represents the goods found in the wagons. 
Fic. 810.—Wagon captured. 
Fig. $811.—The Oglalas killed the Indian agent’s 
(Seville’s) clerk inside the stockade of the Red Cloud 
agency at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. American-Horse’s 
Fig. 811.-Clerk killea. Winter Count, 1873-74. : 
Fig, 812.—The Oglalas at the Red Cloud agency, near Fort Robin- 
son, Nebraska, cut to pieces the flagstaff which 
had been cut and hauled by order of their agent, 
but which they would not allow him to erect, as 
they did not wish to have a flag flying over 
their agency. American-Horse’s Winter Count, 
187475. 
This was in 1874. The flag which the agent 
Fic. 812.—Flag staff cut down. lutended to hoist was lately at the Pine ridge 
agency, Dakota. . 
Fig. 813.—Horses taken by United States government. The-Flame’s 
ve Winter Count, 187677. 
This figure refers to the action of the military 
8 authorities of the United States toward the 
[i 4 ae Indian tribes which had been connected with or 
Cc suspected of favoring the outbreak which resulted 
Ee Cc vB in the defeat of the force under Gen. Custer. 
cc ad A body of troops swept the reservations on the 
Ce < Missouri river and took away all the ponies of 
Fic. 813.—Horses taken. the tribes, thereby depriving them of their means 
of transportation for hostile purposes. The hatted man with a star 
above his head is the brigadier-general in command of the United 
States forces. The hoof prints without marks of horseshoes indicate 
the Indian ponies as usual. The black blurs among them probably 
refer to the considerable number of the ponies that fell and died betore 
they reached Bismark and other points of sale to which they were 
driven. It was promised that the amount realized from the sale of the 
drove should be returned to the owners, but the latter received little. 
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