A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express; or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times . Gen. Tony Forsyth. THE BEGINNING OF THE END 91 influence of some sort of hypnotismwhen prophecies of earthquakes anddrouglit were being strangely ful-filled, a superior genius of Washing-ton stepped into the thick of thetrouble and brought about a agent in charge of the PineRidge reservation was ordered, withfourteen Indian police, up to the campof a gentleman named White Bird tostop the dancing of five or sixhundred crazy warriors. He wascon
A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express; or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times . Gen. Tony Forsyth. THE BEGINNING OF THE END 91 influence of some sort of hypnotismwhen prophecies of earthquakes anddrouglit were being strangely ful-filled, a superior genius of Washing-ton stepped into the thick of thetrouble and brought about a agent in charge of the PineRidge reservation was ordered, withfourteen Indian police, up to the campof a gentleman named White Bird tostop the dancing of five or sixhundred crazy warriors. He wasconfronted by a score of braves,armed with Winchester rifles, andmade to turn back to the , of course, was an act of rebel-lion. The report spread, the episodewas magnified into a successful bat-tle, and every pious Indian in Americacommenced dancing the Ghost Danceto the best of his ability. Thesettlers near the reservations packedup their traps and fled to the cities,and Kicking Bear, with Short Bulland a considerable following of enthu-siastic braves, under the venerableTwo Strike, High Pipe, and HighHawk, put on full uniforms of warpaint, and
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