A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express; or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times . d that attackedthe white men at Wounded Knee orat Pine Ridge, it would have been arepetition of the Custer massacre.However, Gen. Miles, with his char-acteristic diplomacy, arranged placeson his staff with rank and showy uni-forms for Hump and seven of hisleading warriors as scouts, takingthem with him to Pine Ridge, andleaving the warriors in charge ofmilitary in Black Hill camp. But Big Foot was not to be paci-fied so easily. He and his fighterspassed

A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express; or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times . d that attackedthe white men at Wounded Knee orat Pine Ridge, it would have been arepetition of the Custer massacre.However, Gen. Miles, with his char-acteristic diplomacy, arranged placeson his staff with rank and showy uni-forms for Hump and seven of hisleading warriors as scouts, takingthem with him to Pine Ridge, andleaving the warriors in charge ofmilitary in Black Hill camp. But Big Foot was not to be paci-fied so easily. He and his fighterspassed

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A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express; or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times . d that attackedthe white men at Wounded Knee orat Pine Ridge, it would have been arepetition of the Custer massacre.However, Gen. Miles, with his char-acteristic diplomacy, arranged placeson his staff with rank and showy uni-forms for Hump and seven of hisleading warriors as scouts, takingthem with him to Pine Ridge, andleaving the warriors in charge ofmilitary in Black Hill camp. But Big Foot was not to be paci-fied so easily. He and his fighterspassed Gen. Sumner and alhthe otheroutposts, succeeded in getting almostwithin hailing distance of KickingBear, and were discovered by MajorWhiteside of the seventh cavalry,who was reinforced by GeneralTony Forsythe, who commandedin the battle. Little Bit, Lew Chan-grau. White, and No Neck, andTanklin Charlie, Indian scouts,tried to induce the Indians to sur-render. The terms were partlyagreed upon. Capt. Wallace waswith Phillip Wells in the village tosuperintend the surrender of BigFoot, when the medicine man, who THE BEGINNING OE THE END 93. The Press Contingext at Wounded KneeReading from left to right the persons standing are: Buckskin Jack; Kelly, Lincoln Journal; Crissy, Omaho Bee;Charles Seymour, Chicago Herald; Bracket, Chicago Inter-Ocean; Smith, Omaha Herald; Clark, Chicago Tribune;Charles Allen, N. Y. Herald; OBrien, Associated Press; Clark, Scout. Sitting are John M. Burke, McDonough, N. Y.World; Indian Commissioner Cooper. believed in the bullet deflecting qual-ities of the ghost-dance shirt, gave asignal that precipitated the battle ofWounded Knee. There were abouttwo hundred and forty-five Indianswhen the battle began. When it wasover, 225 of them were dead and therest wounded; three of the woundedescaped to the hostiles, and an imme-diate attack the same day was madeon the Agency at Pine Ridge. Theagency was garrisoned with 450 menunder Gen. Brooks; the attack of theI