To the last I have already referred.

Each of these men had a squaw for a wife and numerous half-breed children.

They lived in tents of buffalo skins.

They owned a herd of horses and a few cattle, and had cultivated a small piece of land.

Their principal occupation was hunting, and they had numbers of buffalo hides, which they had tanned in the Indian fashion.
Upon reaching Pleasant Valley on Medicine Creek the party divided into two detachments, one hunting along the bank of the creek for elk and deer, the other remaining with the main body of the escort.
The elk hunters met with no success whatever, but the others found plenty of buffaloes and nearly everybody killed one before the day was done.