Identifier: indianhistoryfor00drak (find matches)
Title: Indian history for young folks
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel), 1828-1885 Dowd, Francis Joseph, 1876-
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Wars
Publisher: New York London : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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LAVA HKIIS. then made a circuit to the right around the hill, and drove off and capt-ured most of the horses, the cavalry being dismounted and fighting onfoot. The troops made a final stand at the lower end of the hill, andthere they were all killed, the fight lasting from two oclock till sunset. INDIAN EISTOEY FOR YOUNG FOLKS. Not a man of the five companies was left alive. The Indian force wasestimated at from two thousand five hundred to three thousand warriors. A Hil»e<;iient examination of the ground revealed the fact that, aboutthree-quarters of a mile from the river. Captain Calhouns company were
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CAPTAIN JACKS CAVE AND STRONGHOLD. LAKE AND CAMPS IN THE DISTANCE. all slain. A mile beyond, on the ridge parallel to the stream, fell Keoghscompany, his right resting on the hill where Ouster fell, held also byVatess company. On the most prominent point of this ridge Ouster madehis last desperate stand, and here he went clown, fighting heroically to thelast. < hi the line of a ravine nearer the river were found the bodiesof Captains Smiths and Ousters companies, their situation indicating thatthey had made a desperate effort to make a stand or to gain the woods.Sitting Bull and his warriors are now (1883) prisoners at Fort Randall,Dakota, having voluntarily surrendered to the United States authorities. Some time before this battle, a council had been held with a numberof chiefs at Fort Dodge. Kansas. Kxtravagant promises of future goodconduct were made by all, but especially by the peculiarly savage andin-olent Satanta. So effective and convincing was the oratorical effo-tof Satan

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