. The story of Montana . Fort Ellis, who knew many oflScersand men who served in the army in that campaign,and made a study of it, and of the battle, has statedthat he believed this painting to be historicallyaccurate in every particular. The Custer monument. — The Custer monumentand the graves of the brave soldiers are to beseen from the Burlington Railroad near Fort graves are scattered all over the bluffs, andthere is one quite a little distance from the others,that of a soldier who tried to escape from the fearfulfoe. The Sioux escaped. — The Sioux escaped carry-ing their dead w
. The story of Montana . Fort Ellis, who knew many oflScersand men who served in the army in that campaign,and made a study of it, and of the battle, has statedthat he believed this painting to be historicallyaccurate in every particular. The Custer monument. — The Custer monumentand the graves of the brave soldiers are to beseen from the Burlington Railroad near Fort graves are scattered all over the bluffs, andthere is one quite a little distance from the others,that of a soldier who tried to escape from the fearfulfoe. The Sioux escaped. — The Sioux escaped carry-ing their dead with them, and there was no smallnumber as the Indians have themselves acknowledged. BATTLES FOUGHT IN MONTANA 185 They were hunted down, m the course of time, bythe soldiers and returned to the reservation, butSitting Bull, the great chief, escaped into Canada. Sitting Bull. — Sitting Bull had pretended to be agreat medicine chief, but whenever there was a pros-pect of a fight he w^ould retire to the hills to make. Copyright, L. A. Huffman, ^..^ A Sioux Warriors Grave medicine. As soon as the battle was over he wouldreturn to the village and claim all the honor of thevictory, saying that it was through his medicine thatthe braves were able to conquer the enemy. He wasfinally brought back to his reservation where he wasto the day of his death a man of great power amonghis people. The story of the last days of his lifeand his tragic death belongs to the history of Sioux subdued. — After the Custer massacre 186 THE SOLDIERS IX MONTANA the Crows and the white settlers of Montana were nomore troubled by the Sioux. Thej^ were forced tostay on their reservations in Dakota. The Chey-ennes were given a reservation of their own in south-eastern Montana. More Indian troubles. — The Montana peoplewere no sooner settled down to a feeling of peacethan there were rumors of Indian troubles to thewest. This time it was the Nez Perces who were onthe war-path. This wa
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