We shall meet our soldiers and come and wipe the Sioux off the land if they come into the valley where our great road runs west." "That is good," said the Sioux.

"As for us, we harm no white man.

We hunt where we please.

White men go!" Auberry now turned to us.

"I don't think they mean trouble, Lieutenant," he said, "and I think the best thing we can do is to let them alone and go on up the valley.