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355. View of the " Stone Man Medicine,'' Cdteau dea Prairies ; a human figure, of 



some rods in length, made on the top of a high bluff by laying flat stones on 

 the grass; a great mystery or medicine place of the Sioux. Painted in 

 1836. (See Nos. 336 and 337.) 



356. Fort Winnebago, on the head of Fox River; a United States outpost. Painted 



in 1835. (No plate.) 

 Fort Winnebago, United States post. On the right bank of the Fox River, directly 

 opposite the portage between this river and the Wisconsin River. Established Octo- 

 ber 7. 1828 ; abandoned September 10, 1845. 



357. Fort Howard, Green Bay; a United States outpost. Painted in 1835. (No 



plate.) 

 Fort Howard, (Wis. ), United States post. On the northwest bank of the Fox River, 

 one mile from the point at which it empties into Green Bay. Established in 1817 ; 

 abandoned June 8, 1852. 



358. Fort Gibson, Arkansas; a United States outpost, seven hundred miles west 



of the Mississippi River. Painted in 1834. (No plate.) 



Fort Gibson, United States post, Indian Territory; on the left bank 

 of the Neosho or Grand River; two and a half miies from its confluence 

 with the Arkansas Kiver. Established in April, 1824. In 18G3 it was 

 also known as Fort Blunt. From this place, then in Cherokee County, 

 Arkansas, now a town in Indian Territory, Mr. Catlin started with the 

 military expedition, under Colonel Dodge, in 1834,* to the Comanches 

 and Pawnees. He came from New Orleans by river to Fort Gibson in 

 the spring of 1834. 



Here we are at present fixed. Fort Gibson is the extreme southwestern outpost on 

 the United States frontier, beautifully situated on the banks of the river, in the 

 midst of an extensive and lovely prairie, and is at present oceupied by the Seventh 

 Regiment of United States Infantry, heretofore under the command of General Ar- 

 buckle, one of the oldest officers on the frontier, and the original builder of the post. 



Nearly two months have elapsed since I arrived at this post, on my way up the 

 river from the Mississippi, to join the regiment of dragoons on their campaign into 

 the country of the Camanchees and Pawnee Picts, during which time I have been 

 industriously at work with my brush and my pen, recording the looks and the deeds 

 of the Osages, who inhabit the country on the north and the west of this. 



The day before yesterday (June 10) the regiment of dragoons and the Seventh Reg- 

 iment of Infantry, stationed here, were reviewed by General Leavenworth, who has 

 lately arrived at this post, superseding General Arbuckle in the command. 



Both regiments were drawn up in battle array, in fatigue dress, and passed through 

 a number of the maneuvers of battle, of charge and repulse, &c, presenting a novel 

 and thrilling scene in the prairie to the thousands of Indians and others who had as- 

 sembled to witness the display. The proud and manly deportment of these young 

 men reminds one forcibly of a regiment of independent volunteers, and the horses 

 have a most beautiful appearance from the arrangement of colors. Each company of 

 horses has been selected of one color entirely. There is a company of bays, a com- 

 pany of blacks, one of whites, one of sorrels, one of grays, and one of cream color, 

 &c, which render the companies distinct, and the effect exceedingly pleasing. — 

 Pages 36, 37, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years. ' 



359. The Short Tower, Wisconsin. Painted in 1835. (No plate.) 



* The expedition under command of Colonel Dodge left Fort Gibson for the Indian country June 



19, mi. 



