Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-10-20
THE GREAT NORTHWEST.

t-n. sreri.Ian's OrieiaI Report Of His oh
s-r.ation- AIobE the Zig H"ra and Vel
iowstooe-A Fertile Region, Embe llishet
With Magnificent Scenery
HEADQUARTERS, MILITARY DIVISION
or THE MISSOURI, CHICAGO, Sept. rs,
f51a.-Brig. Gen. f.. ID. Townsend, Ad-
jutant-General If the Army, Washing
ton, ID. c., SR-The necessity which
caused the establishment of the two
military posts in the Yellowstone and
Big Horn Valleys, in the heart of the
hostile Sioux country, made it incum-
bent on me to collect such knowledge of
that section as would enable me to de-
termine 70 some extent its character, the
bearing of the posts upon it, and the
size Of the garrisons. This information
could best be obtained by personal
visit 10 tine posts and reconnaissance
embracing As large scope of the coun-
try referred 10 as was practicable. |,
therefore, made up my mind to 90 from
Chicago by rail to Green River Station
on the Union Pacific Railroad; thence
by stage via Camp Stambaugh, Wyom-
ing Territory, across the Wind River
Mountains to Camp Brown, on Little
Wind River, near the Agency of the
Shoshones; from Camp Brown, with
proper escort, to travel down the Little
Wind River to its junction with the
main Wind River; thence down the Big
Horn, formed by their junction to the
western base of the Owl Creek Noun
tains; then turning east by the Bridger
and Sioux Pass, make my way to Paint
ed Rock River, which skirts the western |
base of the Big Horn Mountains, and is |
enormously put down on the maps as |
No Wood Creek thence down this river |
until | reached point which would en-
able me to cross the Big Horn Noun
tains on the Tongue River trail, and,
after reaching the eastern base of the
mountains, to proceed down the Little
Big Horn River TO post No. 9, located
at its mouth; from thence by steamboat
l could go down the Big Horn and Vel
lowstone 10 post No. /, at the mouth of
Tongue River, and then by steamer to
Bismarck, and by the Northern Pacific
Railroad back via St. Paul TO Chicago.
THE COUNTRY EMBRACED
in this circuit covered nearly the whole
of the Great Big Horn and Yellowstone
Valleys, and is the country that was
occupied by the hostile Indians during
the previous summer. The necessary
escort having been ordered at Camp
Brown. Wyoming Territory, l left Chi
cago June %, 1877, accompanied by
Col. ID. b. Sacket, Inspector General.
Lieut.. Col. James w. Forsyth, Military
Secretary, and Maj. George A. FORSYTH.
A. ID. c., of my staff; Lieut.. w. l.. Car
penter, 9th Infantry, and two citizen
friends, Col. DIV. WEIGH and Col. H.W.
Farrar. AT Omaha was joined by Gen.
Crook, commanding the Department of ;
the Platte, and on arrival at Camp ,
Brown by Lieuts. Schuyler and Bourke, l
Cen Crooks aid-de-camps. Every
thing being in readiness at Camp Brown,
We started early on the morning of July
|, and on July 4 reached the western
base of the Owl Creek Mountains.
A FERTILE COUNTRY.
From Camp Brown to Tongue River 5
Trail, the country down the Little Wind r
River, and the valleys of the Little and d
Big Popogie and Beaver Creek were +
ound 10 have good soil, fit for cultiva- 1
ion, grass in large amount of great va il
lety, and not confined TO the valleys of
he streams named, but extending over i
he broken country as far east as the a.
Rattlesnake Hills. The country from :,
he junction of the Wind Rivers to the :. :.
base Of the Owl Greek Rangewa found is
o be broken sage brush, bad land !.
'ecuon, unfit for cultivation, and with n
'at grass sufficient in quantity for graz A
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