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Title: The Black Hills, or, The last hunting ground of the Dakotahs : a complete history of the Black Hills of Dakota, from their first invasion in 1874 to the present time, comprising a comprehensive account of how they lost them : of numerous adventures of the early settlers : their heroic struggles for supremacy against the hostile Dakotah Tribes, and their final victory : the opening of the country to white settlement, and it subsequent development
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Tallent, Annie D
Subjects: Dakota Indians Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) -- History
Publisher: St. Louis, : Nixon-Jones Print. Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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? Inviting them to take more hair?We want no scouts, no trappers, No men who know the frontier,Phil, old boy, youre mistaken, You must have the volunteer. 7. Never mind that 200,000, But give us 100 instead.Send 5,000 men toward Reno, And soon we wont leave you a red.It will save Uncle Sam lots of money, In fortress we need not invest.Just wallop the devils this summer, And the miners will do all the rest. The Black Hills is now filled with miners. The Big Horn will soon be as full,And which will present the most danger To Crazy Horse and Old Sitting Bull —A band of 10,000 frontiersmen. Or a couple of forts, with a fewOf the boys in the East, now enlisting? Friend Cody, I leave it with you. 9. They talk about peace with the demons, By feeding and clothing tbein well,Id as soon think an angel from heaven Would reign with contentment in hell.And some day these Quakers will answer. Before the great Judge of allFor the death of daring young Custer, And the boys that around him did fall.
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GEXERAL CUSTER. LAST HUNTING GROUND OF THE DAKOTAHS. 227 10. Perhaps, I am judging them harshly? But I mean what Im telling ye, pard,Im letting them down mighty easy, Perhaps, they may think it is hard,But I tell you the day is approaching. The boys are beginning to muster.That day of the great retribution, The day of revenge for our Custer. 11. And I will be with you, friend Cody, My weight will go in with the boys,I shared all their hardships last winter, I shared all their sorrows and joys.So tell them Im coming, friend William, I trust I will meet you ere long,Regards to the boys in the mountains, Yours truly, in friendship still strong. THE SUMMER CAMPAIGN. Although the Yellowstone Expedition had, up to thattime, met only with disaster and defeat, the campaign wasby no means abandoned. The respective commands ofGens. Terry and Crook were soon heavily reinforced, andon the thirtieth day of July — a little more than a monthafter the battles of the Little Big Horn — an order was

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