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entrance wall. There was a general sentiment of sorrow 

 for the old Medicine Man who had stood up so fiercely 

 on the left of the Apache line, we found his stiU warm corpse 

 crushed out of all semblance to humanity, beneath a huge 

 mass of rock, which has also extinguished at one fell stroke 

 the light of the life of the squaw and the young man who 

 had remained by his side." — ("On the Border with 

 Crook"; Bourke; pp. 196-9). 



Seventy-six, including all the men, were killed. Eigh- 

 teen women and six children were taken prisoners. Thus 

 was wiped out a band of heroic men whose victorious foes 

 admitted that their victims were in the right. 



the cheyennes' last fight, or the ending of dull 

 knife's band 



(Condensed by permission from E. B. Bronson's 

 account as given in "Reminiscences of a Ranchman." 

 D. P. & Co. This with "The Redblood" by the same 

 author should be read by all who are interested in the 

 heroic days of the West.) 



After the Custer fight, the American Army succeeded in 

 rounding up the Indians who could not or would not escape 

 to Canada, the one land of justice that was near, and 

 among these were Dull Knife's Cheyennes. They sur- 

 rendered on promise of fair treatment. 



But as soon as they were in the power of the American 

 Government (President R. B. Hayes), they were marched 

 six hundred miles south into Indian Territory, where they 

 were crowded into a region so unhealthy that it was obvi- 

 ously a question of but three or four years before all would 



