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Safe beyond range of the troopers' light carbines, the Indians, with

their heavier rifles, kept hurling a constant stor out until there was no rear tohich the

harassed cavalrymen could turn for safety One by one, continually

under a heavy fire, the scattered troops were for a battle line--Calhoun on the left, then Keogh,

Sht The

position taken was far fro an ideal one, yet the best possible

under the circu the protection fro the advantage of a sori delayed Scarcely had the troopers recovered, refilled

their depleted cartridge belts froht ca

erect, the nextaniuns brandished in

air, they swept onward, seeking to crush that thin line in one terrible

onset But they reckoned wrong The soldiers waited their coleaht, and then belched forth their e of flame into the very

faces of those reckless horsemen It was not in flesh and blood to

bear such a blow With screaht, leavingdead behind

the over the prairie Yet their