. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. all three. The Indianswere happy. All seemed well. When happy the Indian is exuberant in his joy,and his cup of happiness that day promised to be filled to the very brim. Gall,Crow King, Rain-in-the-Face, John Grass, Spotted Horn Bull and other notedmen were there. The march lasted four days. There were about six hundredmounted hunters in the party, and many thousand buffalo were quietly grazingon the slopes of a hundred elevations as they advanced upon the herd. Some ofthe hunters were amied with bow and arrows, but most of them
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. all three. The Indianswere happy. All seemed well. When happy the Indian is exuberant in his joy,and his cup of happiness that day promised to be filled to the very brim. Gall,Crow King, Rain-in-the-Face, John Grass, Spotted Horn Bull and other notedmen were there. The march lasted four days. There were about six hundredmounted hunters in the party, and many thousand buffalo were quietly grazingon the slopes of a hundred elevations as they advanced upon the herd. Some ofthe hunters were amied with bow and arrows, but most of them with repeatingrifles, and in a few moments the hunt became a slaughter. The Indians killedbuffalo until they were exhausted, and when the days work was done overtwo thousand animals had been slain. -Several of the Indians were hurt, onedying of heart disease during the excitement of the slaughter. The attack wasrenewed on the herd the next day with even greater success, and when it wasconcluded over five thousand had been slain, and the meat preserved for the. Ilitiis by D. F. Barrj-, Siipcrinr. Wis. Sioux \\anioi- NOTED SIOUX Crow KingJohn GrassEunning Anttlope HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 39 winters food supply. Frank Gates and Henry Agard each killed twenty-fivebuftalo, and many others had made enviable records. It was contemporaneous with these results that William E. Curtis, the notedtraveler, accompanied by the author of these pages, visited the Yellowstone were entertained at Glendive by Capt. James M. Bell of the SeventhU. S. Cavalry, who organized a buffalo hunt for their entertainment. Theyreached the grounds, twenty miles down the river, from Glendive, about noon,and encountered a herd of about four thousand, but being there to see and notto be a part of the performance, Curtis and Lounsberry were not , they were allowed to creep up the cut bank of a stream to within easyrange, when they fired and the stampede commenced. The soldiers then rushed
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