THE MISSOURI AND PLATTE RIVERS, BTC. 
West of Fort Laramie temporary protection should be afforded, when 
_ sarees by patrols and escorts, and also between Forts Laramie and 
_ Kearny 
= ~ Not Seed than one regiment, four eee a at Fort Kearny, and 
. six at Fort oe should be kept = A 
If active operations are to be cfrried on during the coming season in 
e Dacota country, it is against them the forces casa be di rected, 
from both Fort Laramie and Fort Pierre. 
punishment inflicted on the Brulés and Ogalalas at Blue Water 
“has taught them a useful lesson, which they will not soon forget. 
he Pawnees, about eight hundred warriors, with whom the ‘Dacotas 
are at war, and the Poncas, three hundred warriors, with whom the 
are friendly, occupy the southeastern part of Nebraska : to the south- 
west are the Shyennes, one thousand, between whom and the Ogalala 
_ Dacotas the most friendly relations exist, The Crows, a powerful and 
_ warlike tribe, occupy the country between the Black Hills and Wind 
<< = mountains, about the sources of the Yellowstone. They made 
_ a treaty of peace with the Dacotas at Horse a in 1849, but they 
4 on enemies at heart. The small bands of Mandans, Aricarees, and 
_ Minnitares, and the powerful one of the Ansimatboinas are on the north. © 
CONCLUSION. 
Very little is known as to the accurate geography and topography of 
Crow country and Black Hills, and, in fact, of any portion of 
ie west of the Mieaaick and the road from Fort Pierre to Fort 
The sakes causes that brought on the war with the Sioux will, no 
Semeninanchdatio on te canis ts Con ngress, thr rough the proper channel, 
an appropriation of $50,000, for military and geographical e xplo- 
braska. : 
A reconnaissance, which could be madg at small expense on the Far 
mpan Pthe Missouri river from Fort | 
lowstone ; one should also be made 
