. Bulletin. Ethnology. BOLL. 30] SPRING FROG SPRUCE-TREE HOUSE 627 and Montana n. of the North Platte as far w. aa Bighorn mts. and abandoning the road to the mines, with Ft Phil. Kearny, where the massacre of Lieut. Col. William J. Fetterman's command had occurred on Dec. 21, 1866, and Ft. SPOTTED TAIL Reno near the head of Powder r. When gold was discovered in the Black hills, Spotted Tail and Red Cloud, who were recognized as the chiefs at the respective agencies called by their names, arranged to go to \Vashington to negotiate a sale of the mineral rights; and thoroughly to in- form himsel
. Bulletin. Ethnology. BOLL. 30] SPRING FROG SPRUCE-TREE HOUSE 627 and Montana n. of the North Platte as far w. aa Bighorn mts. and abandoning the road to the mines, with Ft Phil. Kearny, where the massacre of Lieut. Col. William J. Fetterman's command had occurred on Dec. 21, 1866, and Ft. SPOTTED TAIL Reno near the head of Powder r. When gold was discovered in the Black hills, Spotted Tail and Red Cloud, who were recognized as the chiefs at the respective agencies called by their names, arranged to go to \Vashington to negotiate a sale of the mineral rights; and thoroughly to in- form himself of the value of the minerals. Spotted Tail visited the hills, hung around the camps of the prospectors, listened to their talk, and conceived the idea there- from that the mines were immensely valuable. Under the treaty of 1868 the chiefs could not make treaties for sale of lands, hence commissioners were sent to the Indians, finding that Spotted Tail had raised the Indian expectations so high that sixty million dollars were demanded for the concession. The Government could not agree to this, hence no treaty was made that year, and miners were permitted by the troops to pass into the Black hills without hindrance. Then all the young men on the reservations joined the hostiles. Red Cloud was sus- pected of disloyalty, and in the course of the campaign that followed the Custer disaster in 1876, Spotted Tail was ap- pointed chief of all the Indians at both agencies, and negotiated the settlement by which his nephew. Crazy Horse, came in from Powder r. and surrendered in the spring of 1877. Spotted Tail was killed near Rosebud agency, S. Dak., Aug. 5, 1881, by a tribesman named Crow Dog. The facts relating to the killing are in dispute, but there is not much question that Spotted Tail, at the time, was leading a hostile party against Crow Dog, who deemed his life in peril and shot in self- defense. (F. H. D. R. ) Spring Frog. See Toonntuh. Spring Garden Town. A former town in the
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