CHAPTER I.

Our Centennial War with the Sioux--Scene of the Campaign--General Aspect of the Country--The hostile Indians and their Grievances--The People of the Frontier--The Treaty of 1868--The Invasion of the Black Hills--Sitting Bull--Immediate Causes of the War--The Indians Warned and Threatened--The Warning Disregarded--An Appeal to Arms--Bishop Whipple on the Roaming Indians, 7