P. S. The photo has come. I could have known you anywhere. You have changed a little—for the better, I think.
J. E. W.
[53]. I have written several times to General Carr, asking information as to this and other points, but have not received any.—C. T. B.
[54]. This letter, which is dated Edith, Coke County, Texas; June 16, 1891, was furnished me for publication by Dr. T. E. Oertel. I am informed that the writer has since died.—C. T. B.
[55]. These figures, which are evidently from memory, are certainly in error.—C. T. B.
Part II
The War With the Sioux
CHAPTER ONE
With Crook’s Advance
I. The Cause of the Fighting
Late in 1876 the government determined that thereafter all Indians in the Northwest must live on the reservations. For a long time the Interior Department, to which the management of Indian affairs was committed, had been trying in vain by peaceable means to induce them to do this. The Indians were at last definitely informed that if they did not come into the reservation by the first of January, 1876, and stay there, the task of compelling them to do so would be turned over to the War Department. They did not come in; on the contrary, many of those on the reservations left them for the field; and thus the war began.