CHAPTER XII.

Winter Operations--Crook's Expedition--Col. McKenzie on the Trail--A Night's March--A Charge down a Canyon--Destruction of a Cheyenne Village--Life at the Tongue River Cantonment--Miles' Excursion Northward--Capture of Sitting Bull's Camp--An Unfortunate Affair--Massacre of Five Chiefs--Treacherous Crows--Winter March Southward--Desperate Battle in the Wolf Mountains--Defeat of Crazy Horse--Red Horse Surrenders--His Story of the Big Horn Battles--Spotted Tail's Mission--Surrender of Roman Nose, Standing Elk and Crazy Horse, 81