Major Bush adds “very badly” to “small-pox broke out.”
1802-’03.—No. I. First shod horses seen by Indians.
No. II. A Dakota stole horses with shoes on, i. e., stole them either directly from the whites or from some other Indians who had before obtained them from whites, as the Indians never shoe their horses. The device is a horseshoe.
No. III. Blackfeet Dakotas stole some American horses having shoes on. Horseshoes seen for the first time.
Mato Sapa says: Blackfeet Dakota stole American horses with shoes on, then first seen by them.
Major Bush agrees with Mato Sapa.
White-Cow-Killer calls it “Brought-in-horseshoes winter.”
Battiste Good says: “Brought-home-Pawnee-horses-with-iron shoes-on winter.”
