The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-09

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Kan Ir2und. corral on the Two Medicine and
have the great success SO We movedIwe
a Tow DAYS arrived at this place. There were
only Snys thirty lodges OF US some 25o EeopIe; l
men. Warriors f All T the rest st'C Of The BSSk
feet. the great camp, were over across
the Miss Missouri We placed our lodges in
river, there. and began. preparations e. snare
the buffalo At tho foot Of tho elm y oni,
half circle struck tho wall rock again 9 hun.
will see it was u very big corral, 1t had stood
many many years some Of the. great tree
placed thcrc before the Indians got axes, and
| they had been burned down instead of chopped.
Ss9 we was wfch P%od P Sa
| strong barrier against the powerful rush Of the
buffalo Now then from the top Of rt the
piles extended far. out onto the prairie;
like the ett%T y eyer dyerginF Until
mile apart. All day the women were busy cut
ting brush and dragging it out on the prairie;
each one of these piles there were to be one or
more PEOPLE concealed when the time "ame
OF the V. and once there. as they passed further
~, the people were to keep rising up from
on, until finally the bard should reach the edge
| OF the cliff. Them Of course tho foremost
Snimgs would try to stop but the others
the baud would 60 over the cliff: those not
being Killed or crippled in the fall would be
We'll. everything, was ready; the corral had
been repaired. the brush was in place; all we
within a couple Of miles Of the place, All day
| long watchers were on the hill looking out
men were PRAYING all the time. and he who was
them. At last. on the third day. about noon;
| the watchers in and Ruit that big band
had been seen, luie long way out: but That That
the CHANCES were thGy eGnd ID be dee"yed os b The
red out to their riaces and soon the esIinE
| wore large buffalo robe hair side out. The
| medicine men remained in their lodges and
to the sun Not every one could decoy buffalo;
| to be successful one must initiate PERFECTLY the
frightened bawing OF buffalo calf which Is
We'll. the man rode down the valley below
M hen the ami eu and
sight, where fcould SEE the fun. The buffalo
we're ohont three miles distant some feed
low on his horse, was slowly approaching them
by riding in circles aud ziGzaGGing. He was
an hour or more getting near enough for them
to hear him. and then began to b4wI as calf
would when pursued by,wEovcs. | could not
buiaio suddenly start toward him. Or. the
roor buffalo Why couldn't they see that the
thing bavng 50 plteousy was bigger than
tor? But all they thought of was that
SmG they "f 5ccas spn ad They c6onsed
PIT ever III" thing they pursued kept is dis
ing nov: tn" pounding Of athousand clatter-
Ing ho%fs ON the hard. baked prairie soil would
nearer aud nearer, until they came into the
mouth Of the V ] saw the reople rising
Tnb"s saw he callers 1p o ,tT to one Side Of
tn" line. ard then | slid down the IcdGe, In a
minut" or two the poor animals came to the
their shaggy heads, and th"n-a solid mass. a
waterfall Of them began to pour over the cliff
Head first tan iir-ti on their back on their
sides. they struck the ground. and the many
rose ,,. no. more. umtil frngGlimG: Gro ftii
nearly to. tho top OF the lodge. and then
those stlll coming I'D h"w3 over them,
ll99p OF the ledge. Thcre Vas none to rush
them on and. sc%ing tho fate WHICH awaited
out on the FRA irie. Tho men now all mounted
tn" corral and with thcir, guns and bows and
creatures. which were running around tryingto
lind WAY out. The bulls were spared because
difficult to tan: When all the rest had been
Killed excent those lying cripp!rd up by the
bulls driven ont. and then every one rushed in;
women as we'll rs mon, and began to skin and
cnt up the great Killing which had been male;
all. there were three hundred or more
Every one was busy at work. myself in
j yGGg abovH here s" biz party ai4 Of !" mountsI m
dIans rode out into the vale" and charged
S9wa S AMI MID the ,m @na t Gn4rSn
hunhIp OralouE tn" sides at the corral as best
they could: the men Eraspcd their wcapYns
we had the best o, II. with the corral for a bar
ri"r, and when the onrominG party SHOUTED
the Crows. W. answered them pack with good
will, The Rlackirst were always ready ana
%n ahSHso to to a w9Yn 3sy E"a TheE &
enemy would rush right up to the corral hefor"
TEsyy6S ab nsr T %as w t6aY f@r thm
and rode OF it'll" way. then. turned cane
hnck and wheeled away again without i!rinE
and ,brandishinV their weapons at us. We
couldn't imagine what they were up to. but We
Of them who had sncaked around unobsGry.d
and gained the top Of the ledge began to fire
down at us. and at the same time the main
the other and although we Kept dropping some
OF those riding around the corral wa were doing
no damage to thos" M on the ledge. who were
shooting down our people pretty rapidly.
when " th9 war F; %hc Eagle E Ill., shouted S% o or
some Of us must climb the ledge and drive
those, pNoPIs OF or wen Al he Filled. Now;
those he wanted TO 20 with him there were
tweutv.seyen in all and | was e,of them.
cmb hst c MTS hut lS e HAT we mns %a ora
the chief said. we'd all he killed and scalped.
and worse would happen to- the women. So
when our loader said 60" lust grlttcd my
teeth and said to myself that Id,do my hest. We
started; before We got to the foot ut the slope
three of our number fell. aud while climbing
up and over the heap OF dead buffalo two
more dropped, and nowwo w"r" at the rock
and go many buffalo were piled W there that
as soon as we got to it we could sue over it,
There were twenty-five or thirty Crows stand
ing there. and they were busy. some firing
arrows at us. others relOading their guns. We
shot into them. most Of rs having guns.
as We could. Bur whic we were doing 50 the
Crows came right to the edge Of the wall and
began to shoot again but four or five of our
party had bow AMI arrows and stood them Off
pretty well, although four more of us were |
dropped before we couIl begin to uSC our guns
again. But when we did you ought to have |
seen those Grows drop and the rest run for
their horses. which on" oi their number was |
holding some d;etan"" away. We JUMPED M |
on the ledge and took after them. but they had
too much the start Of US ana lust Scampercd |
on as soon as hey could m unit. We had nf- |
teen OF them, though. Wing about near the |
ledge. and ia way tn" lilaNEfeCt vauked their |
scaIps on and some OF them still kicking was
a caution.
- Meanwhln the Hght was still going on |