But the White Man had taken from the Indians the land for twenty miles on both sides of it.
This land he had sold for money to people in the East.

It was taken from the Indians.

But the Indians got nothing for it.
"The iron horse brought from the East men and women and children, who took the land from the Indians and drove out the game.

They built fires, and the fires spread and burned the prairie grass on which the buffalo fed.

Also it destroyed the pasturage for the ponies of the Indians.