Part 22
10. Present Custer monument, in field enclosed by fence.
11. Broad coulee of Medicine Tail creek just across east from Cheyenne camp circle.
The long links, ⬭ ⬭ show approach of Custer troops, moving northwestward, along a high ridge.
Scattered crossmarks, x x x, show where irregular second camps of Indians were placed.
Little Bighorn river flowing northwestward.
Indians forded river at Medicine Tail coulee and also went along hills from Reno hill, 9, to intercept Custer soldiers.
Legend for opposite map: A.--Present-day Miles City, Montana. B.--Present-day Hardin, Montana. C.--Near the present-day Sheridan, Wyoming.
1. Cheyenne camp whipped out and burned, on Powder river, just above mouth of Little Powder river, March 17, 1876.
2. Where Cheyennes joined the Ogallala band.
3. Where Ogallalas and Cheyennes together joined Sitting Bull’s Uncpapas. Minneconjoux Sioux also came here, making four separate camp circles.
4. Arrows All Gone Sioux joined here, making five camp circles.
5. Powder river. Blackfeet Sioux made here the sixth camp circle. Other small bands had come, but not enough for tribal camp circles.
6. Camp at Tongue river.
7. Upper Wood creek, where they stayed five or six days, for a great buffalo hunt.
8. The six camp circles on the Rosebud river, about May 19th.
9. Where the Uncpapas had their sun dance, in early June.
10. Reno creek camp, from which the Indians went out at night to fight Crook’s soldiers, on the upper Rosebud.
11. Site of the Crook fight, on the upper Rosebud, June 17th.
12. Custer battle, June 25th.
All moved away together, in the same six tribal camp circles, until they arrived back at 3, east of Powder river. Here the great combined camp was broken up, and the tribes separated, about July 15th.
Transcriber’s Notes
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been silently corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. Some hyphens in words have been silently removed and some silently added when a predominant preference was found in the original book. Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text and inconsistent usage have been retained.
Table of Contents: “Roving after the Victory” replaced by “Rovings after the Victory”.
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Page 180: “in the Ogallalla” replaced by “in the Ogallala”.
Page 334: “wheneven we had” replaced by “whenever we had”.
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