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"Well, we've got the survivors--three o' theet here?"

"They came in with a small outfit o' Mormons that was north o' the

Vermilion They'd come out on the St Jo road They told me--"

"Is Woodhull here--can you find him?"

"Shore! Ye want to see him?"

"Yes"

"He told me all about hit--"

"We know all about it, perhaps better than you do--after he's told you

all about it"

Bridger looked at him, curious

"Well, anyhow, hit's over," said he "One of theReckon hit hurt I know, fer I carried a Blackfoot

arrerhead under my shoulder blade fer sever'l years

"But couards Do-ee

mind, now, the hull Sioux nation's just in ahead o' us, other side the

river! Yet these people didn't want to ford to the south side the

Platte; they wanted to stick north o' the river Ef we had, we'd have

our ha'r dryin' by now I tell ye, the tribes is out to stop the wagon

trains this spring They say too many womern and children is comin', an'

that shoant to take their land away fer keeps

"Froon--look out! The Cayuses cleaned out the Whiton Even the Shoshones is dancin' The Crows

is out, the Cheyennes is marchin', the Bannocks is east o' the Pass, an'