Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-09-03
lNBIaH WAR HISTORY.
"Old Dakota" and their Contemporaries
ih the Early Part OF the Present Gen.

tury.
BY CREEP EASY, OF CALAMITY FARM,
[Continusd from last week
After parting with his comrades,
S.rike-the Reefs course ley along the
banks of the Missouri in the direction OF
the Arickaree village. AS he cautiously
oontlh ued op his way, his mind was given
up to those dark schemes of vengeance
and death which had inssigated him to
undertake this perilous journey.
The dresry howlIng of the wolves
from the surrounding plains, the distant
believing of she buffaloes, the roaring
and rushing of the mighty wilderness OF
waters in the valley below the vague
sounds from the surrounding wilderness
ss the first grey of dawn illuminated the
eastern horizon-Rll combined to render
the effect, pleasingly solemn, mysteri-
ous and sublime. But he needed shem
not. His great absorbing thought and
wish-come what might-was that he
might be enabled to wreak his vengeance
on the slayer of his brother ere he re-
turned to his native home.
He reasoned that the enemy had long
since received information from the
AEickares war chief of their passage
down the river in the bull boat, and he
rightly coniectured, thet ere this war
parties were moving down the river TO
try and intercept them. His aim, was
to wreak his vengeance on Fonr-Bears i,
or some one OF his followers, and Eejoin
his comrades, who had agreed to take
the wounded Indian, Crazy Bull, down
the river, and await his coming at the
mouth of the Cheyenne.
He continued on his way, until the
morning light rendered il Unsafe to tra-
vel. Then taking ell those precautions,
which the deep cunning of his willy foes
rendered necessary, lest he might be
fatally exposed and his hopes OF VEN
geance frustrated, he seoreted himself
in dark and gloomy glen situated near
the source OF one of those many deep
and sloping ravines that wind their SER
pentine course from the high praiEies to
the bottom lands below. Bringing forth
some pemmican, he ate heartily OF 1t, fill
ed his tomahawk pipe with ''kinne-
kinick"-the carefully prepared inne,
bark Of the red ozies willow-and, light
ing 1t with fiat and steel, he smoked
while his mind was given up to dark
schemes OF strategy and vengeance. Hi
passionate excitement resent bled mania
In vain did rocks and preoiplces and
spring torrents oppose his progress
Let but siRgle track OF his hated enc
mics meet his eve and he forgets all
dangers and defies all difficulties. Beins
weary from loss OF sleep and continued
exertion during the excitement OF the
last thirty-six hours, Young Strike-the'
Rec, wrapped himself up in his blanket
laid down on some dry grass he hat
gathered together and was soon sIeepin,
soundly beneath the clear canopy OF a,
overhanging sky.
He slept until the sun had long sine
passed the meridian line, when distan
rumbling, as of a vast army OF motion
reused him from his slumbers. Jumpin.
up he quickly prepared sor action
Peering cautiously in the direction o
the sounds, he soon dlsoovere,
the cause of the commotior
He beheld a.vast herd of bufaloes, le,
BY bull OF enormous sizs, coming il
on one of the great buffalo trails tha
make their wey from the feeding ground
OF the adjacent eountry to the Missoul
iriser. It was grand spectacle to wit
!, ness-this countless throng mekin