The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-08-12
GEN. NELSON A. MILES
AND THE SIOUX
Story of the Last Outbreak of the
Great American Indians.

\ l1thograph that has survived
the attacks of time shows Gen.
Nelson A. Miles and Col. W. F.
Cody mounted on spirited horses
and overlooking from a bluff the
last great camp of the Sioux In
dams when coming in from the
,.yarpath. The Sioux surrendered
G. Gen. Miles in January, 1901,
but they came very near, a few
days after the surrender, to the
point of breaking away once more.
The story OF it is this:
Gray dawn was breaking at the
Pine Ridge agency when an In
dian runner broke headlong into
the village of the surrendered
Sioux. He stopped at the tepees
of the principal warriors long en-
Ough to shout a message, and then
leaving the camp where its end
rested against an abrupt hill, he
made his way with d plainsman 5
stealth to the group of agency
buildings, Circling which and eX-
tending beyond, browning ridge
after ridge, were the white Sibley
tents of the soldiers.
Breakfast was forgotten in the
troubled camp of the Sioux. The
chiefs and the greater braves rush
ed to quick council and the lesser
warriors, the squaws and the chill
dreu stood waiting with logged
patience in the village streets.
The council was over. An old
chief shouted a word of command
that was caught up and passed
quickly to the farthest outlying
tepees. An army might have
learned a lesson from that which
followed the short, sharp order.
Mounted men shot out from the
village and as fast as leet-footed
ponies, pressed to their utmost,
could accomplish the distances
every outlying ridge was topped
with figure of rider and horse,
silhouetted against the morning
sky.
Every sentinel warrior had his
eyes on the camps of the white
soldiery. Suddenly from the east
OF the agency, where lay the Sixth
cavalry, there came a trumpet call
What swelled and swelled and end
ed in one ringing note that sang
in and out of the valleys and then,
subdued to softness, Aoated on to
be lost in the prairie wilderness be-
yond,
The motionless figure of one of
the hilltop sentinels was moved to
instant life. A signal ran from
ridge to ridge, finally to be passed
downward into the camp of the
waiting Sioux, who sprang into
action at its coming. The pony
herds of the Sioux were grazing on
the hills to the west, unrestrained
of their freedom by lariat or herds
man. In number they nearly
equaled the people of the village,
a few ponies for emergency use
only having been kept within the
camp. Upon the ponies in the
village jumped waiting warriors,
who broke out of the shelter of the
tepees for the hills were the herds
were foraging on the snoW-Covered
bunch grass. 1t seemed but a
passing moment before every pony
in that great grazing herd was
headed for the village, The ami
mails were as obedient to the word
of command as is a brave to the
word of his chief.
During the gathering of the
ponies the women Of the camp had
slung their papooses to their backs
had collected the camp utensils
and were standing ready to strike
the tepees, while the braves,
blanketed and with rifles in their
hands, had thrown themselves be-
tween the village and the camps
of the soldiers Of Gen. Miles.
The Sioux, who had surrender
ed less than a week before, were
preparing to stampede from the
agency and to make necessary the
of A CamDaipn that had