Show S tories of GREAT INDIANS by SCOTT WATSON coper 1822 we wes ern newspaper union RED CLOUD VICTOR IN AN AMERICAN WAR HE school I 1 histories assert THE TO tl at america I 1 as been victorious in all of her wars but it ey are strange strangely silent about a conflict in which one man defied the power of it tie e unite I 1 baates and dictated his own terms of peace that man was ilas bed red cloud loud makeba luta chief ot of the 0 ogallala allala sioux hen government commissioners sought the bigit to build forts along tie tl e bozeman trail to the montana gold held field red cloud steadfastly op poked this encroachment on the choicest I 1 tinting grobi ts t s of the sious sioux in a council of his people lie declared dakotas I 1 am ter war arl col 11 II B carrington entered wyoming teless to build the forts ni at d red cloud sent him ahli defiant message 1 I shall stand in tie trail A war mar followed in which if tie e ogallala leader killed 81 soldiers under colonel fetterman Fette naan near fort ahll I 1 hit Iv earney this loss was avenged the next sear when red cloud lost half of the warriors whom be i ent against na soldiers la in a bagon agon I 1 ox wc corral despite this reverse red cloud re master of the situation in ix 1868 he lie dell delivered vered Ms his ultimatum to a leace the forts must be abandoned and all further attempts to open the montana road toad must ceabe more than that he fixed the boun darles of the sioux country to suit himself the commissioners agreed to evely demand for the ogallala chief refused eien e en to meet alem tl em until tie tl e garrisons had actually been with drawn ills victory was mas complete I 1 rom the day I 1 e signed the treaty he kept h b s promise to live at peace avith M ath whites bites ninety one years ears old I 1 lind find almost deaf he sits dreaming of the past writes rites one who aho visited him then no mander he Is irritated by the I 1 lie ile information seel er who would be called back from the dreams of his youth and infirm lie Is reliving tl e days of his youth when he sat on I 1 is horse as a king the pride of the great sioux nation to I 1 is eai eais s must come tl it e roa of tl tie e hunt as tl e countless count lebs bison herd like a tidal wave rolls by and again it tie e great day of I 1 Is hie lite when ahen his red blar kete 1 band swept down donn on MA tl ill e hapless fetterman troop even now his I 1 eart must seem to stand still as lie be lives over again that lear ful day of the N wagon agon bos box fight when he hurled th the e pick of the sioux na tion against the ithe riflemen on december 10 19 the old man a ended and red cloud the great est war chief of tl it e sioux died |