. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . a neighboring chief awak-ened all their sense of hospital-ity, they explained to him thattheir own meager rations wouldnot permit a great feast of wel-come. The Ogallala chief saidthat he had seen a white buffalo(a cow) on the prairies, but ap-peared satisfied on learning thefacts of the case. He and his war-riors would go out on a hunt,said the visitor; and strangelyenough, the game that they brought in was the carcass of thewhite buffalo. The owner of the cow sent in a bill for it to Fort Laramie, andreceived payment from the officer in command ;
. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . a neighboring chief awak-ened all their sense of hospital-ity, they explained to him thattheir own meager rations wouldnot permit a great feast of wel-come. The Ogallala chief saidthat he had seen a white buffalo(a cow) on the prairies, but ap-peared satisfied on learning thefacts of the case. He and his war-riors would go out on a hunt,said the visitor; and strangelyenough, the game that they brought in was the carcass of thewhite buffalo. The owner of the cow sent in a bill for it to Fort Laramie, andreceived payment from the officer in command ; who immediate-ly despatched a force of thirty men, under the command of alieutenant, to demand the warrior who had killed the when they arrived at the village, it is hardly probablethat this demand was made in a manner calculated to ensure itsadmission by the Indians. The Ogallala chief is in the village of the Bois Brules, andthey cannot give him up to his enemies. But he has behavedbadly, and you can take him; that is his GKX. Wl^XIlELB S. SCOTT. 472 GENERAL WILLIAM S. HARNEY. No, you must bring him here/* insisted the officer, withdrunken dignity. The Indian does not give up tlie friend who is in his lodge,and Black Beavers people would kill him if he did so. But the hospitality of the desert met with no recognition here,and the order was given to fire. Black Beaver was killed, buthis death was speedily avenged by that of the lieutenant, hisinterpreter, and all the detachment but one man; who, foundwounded, was taken into the lodge of a warrior and nursed backto health. Such was the beginning of the war in which the wholeSioux tribe took up the quarrel of their kinsmen, the Bois Brules. In such a state of affairs, the most distinguished Indian fighterin the army could not well be spared, and Gen. Harney was re-called before one quarter of the two years had passed. LeavingParis on Christmas Eve, 1854, he reported in Washington. G-en. Harney, said President
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