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The night attack on the great e for years The increasing nu numbers of the buffalo, meant inevitable co hunt of the northern Plains tribes was on Five hundred

lodges of the Sioux stood in one village on the north side of the

Platte The scaffolds were red withhides and the careat

Sioux nation had prospered, according to its lights Two hundred stolen

horses were under the wild herdsht kill it close to camp from the scores taken out of

the first caravans up the Platte that year--the Mormons and other early

trailers whom the Sioux despised because their horses were so few

But the Sioux, fat with boudins and dépouille and reat Western train which should have appeared on

the north side of the Platte, the erant road from the Council Bluffs

For soer had

explained--the wagons had forded the river below the Big Island The

white reat rendezvous at the forks of the Great

Medicine Road Their watch

the river bluffs of the north shore, brought back scoffing word of the

carelessness of the whites When they got ready they, too, would ford

the river and take the sent down

the trail that no more whites should come into this country of the

tribes It was to be war

And now the s in from the