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Show The Sioux Thermopylie. Long ago a frontier scuut named Hank Clifford, who had taken a squaw from the Sioux nation, said he had heard them declare that if ever tho antagonism between them aud the whites grew to a final struggle, there was a country in the north where they could take refuge, and where they could never be conquered or dislodged. dis-lodged. They would wait there to receive re-ceive the force sent out against them, and could hope to destroy de-stroy it before it could escape. This region they described a3 extremely I rough, where steep ridgea, precipices and deep canons formed a chaotic surface, upon which the force fir$t iu possession could fight successfully three times their own number. Cliflord believes that it was the Rosebud Rose-bud mountains to which they referred, re-ferred, as they are nearly impregnable impreg-nable to an invader. On the morning of the second day, after leaving the supply camp on Goose creek, Crook's command halted to rest in the valley of the Rosebud. It was then only in the foot hills of the mountains. Had the Crow scouts performed their duty on the previous night they would have been passed in darkness, for had General Cmok known of the proximity of the Sioux village, the Richmond of his hopes, he would have ordered a forced march in order to efiect a surprise. The result of the battle ot the Rosebud, Rose-bud, which has been falsely termed a defeat, would thus have been a far difierent'one. While it might have ended in the massacre of Crook and his gallant command for the Indians In-dians out-numbered him ten to one the probabilities are that he would have achieved a signal victory over the surprised Sioux. BOOKBINDING done at the Herald Her-ald office in best styles and cheapest rates. |