A soldier-doctor of our army, James PKimball, late colonel and assistant surgeon-general, . CTOR tented, absorbed in his professional work andhis studies of climate, soil, and people. It was at Buford that Dr. Kimball securedthe autobiography of Sitting Bull — in pic-ture writing. This precious manuscript wassent to the Curator of the Army Medical Mu-seum at Washington, and is there preservedin the archives. The book was brought intoFort Buford by a Yanktonnais Sioux and of-fered for sale and purchased for provisionsworth ^ The doctors keen eye saw theethnological value of the rud
A soldier-doctor of our army, James PKimball, late colonel and assistant surgeon-general, . CTOR tented, absorbed in his professional work andhis studies of climate, soil, and people. It was at Buford that Dr. Kimball securedthe autobiography of Sitting Bull — in pic-ture writing. This precious manuscript wassent to the Curator of the Army Medical Mu-seum at Washington, and is there preservedin the archives. The book was brought intoFort Buford by a Yanktonnais Sioux and of-fered for sale and purchased for provisionsworth ^ The doctors keen eye saw theethnological value of the rude drawings, andwith the aid of the vender, other interpreters,and his own knowledge of Indian lore and lan-guage, deciphered the story and prepared anindex. The sheets upon which the drawingswere made were the muster-roll blanks of the31st Infantry and were doubtless stolenby Sitting Bull upon some raid. Since theestablishment of Fort Buford in 1866,writes Dr. Kimball, in his introduction to thefind, Sitting Bull, at the head of from sixty toseventy warriors, had been the terror of mail-. SITTING BULLFrom a photograph by O. S. Goff, i8Si FORT BUFORD 61 carriers, wood-choppers, and small parties inthe vicinity of the post, and from one hundredto two hundred miles from it either way upand down the Missouri River. During the timefrom 1866 to 1870, when the autobiographywas written, this band had several times de-stroyed the mail and had stolen and run offwith over two hundred head of cattle andkilled a score of white men in the immediatevicinity of the Fort. . .The word coup,which occurs frequently in the index, has beenappropriated by the Sioux from the French(Sioux itself being the French name for Da-kota); Counting coup signifies the strikingof an enemy, either dead or alive, with a stick,bow, lance, or other weapon. The number ofcoups counted are enumerated along withthe number of horses stolen and scalps takenin summing up the brave deeds of a preface, inde
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