The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-18

chusetts in size, and one Of the most fertile
and best watered regions in Montana. Here
are less than three thousand Indians, who in
winter gather about the agency and subSist
on government beef and flour, and spend
the summer roaming over the country. They
are rich tribe, as Indians are rich, having
10000 ponies
In 1882 they sold for cash the western end
of their domain, including the Clark s
Fork gold and silver mines, strip
forty by sixty miles in extent, and it is only
a question of time when this once great and
powerful nation, which once held all
eastern Montana, will be disposessed of the
greater part of this valuable tract
The Crows have long been friendly to the
whites. They are inferior to their old enc
mics, the Sioux Indians, In intelligence,
handicraft and bravery. That they have al
ways appreciated their country is shown by
the words of Crow chief Arrapoaish, to
the fur-trader. Robert Campbell. as told by
Washington Irving: The Crow country is
a good country The Great Spirit has put it
in the right place. When you are in it you
fare well; when out of it, wherever you
travel, you fare worse. To the south are
barren plains; the water is warm and bad,
and you meet the fever and ague. To the
north it is cold; the winters are long. and
there is no grass for horses; you must travel
with dogs.
ION the Columbia they are poor and. dirty,
paddle about in canoes and eat fish;
their teeth are worn out; they are
always picking fish-bones ont OF
their mouths To the east they live well,
but they drink the muddy waters OF the Mis-
souri,. A Crows dog would not drink such
water. The Crow country is exactly in the
right place. 1t has snowy mountains and
, sunny plains all kinds of climate and good
things for every season. When the summer
heats scorch the prairies you can go to the
mountains where the air is sweet and cool,
the grass green, and the bright streams come
tumblng out of the snow banks When
winter comes OH you can take shelter in the
woody bottoms along the rivers; there you
will find buffalo meat for yourself and cot
tonwood bark for your horses. The Crow
country is exactly in the right place. There
is no country like the Grow country" That
is about the opinion of the people along the
line of the Union Pacific
Glendive is the first place in Montana of
any prominence. 1t is the terminus of the
Missouri division and the beginning of
the Yellowstone line of road. 1t
has 1900 people, is 1000 feet altitude,
and is on the south bank of the Yellowstone,
ninety miles from its junction with the Mis-
souri, at Fort Benton. Back of the broad
plain on which the town was founded in,
those of the Bad Lands of the Little Mis-
souri,. The town is named by an eccentric
Irish hobleman, who spent the winter of
1856 hunting buffalo in the region, and gave
the name Glendive to the adjacent creek.
A tri-weekly line of stages runs from Glen
dive to Fort Buford The scenery beyond
Gle ldive is imposing of its kind. The rail
roan skirts the river, and high bluffs tower
above the track. During the last summer
thousands of buffalo hides were shipped
from the stations between Glendive and
Miles City. A. w. BRAYToN.