Battiste Good says: “Small-pox-used-them-up-again winter.” They at this time lived on the Little White River, about 20 miles above the Rosebud Agency. The character in Battiste Good’s chart is presented here in Figure 41, as a variant from those in the plates.
Fig. 41.—Measles or small-pox.
Cloud-Shield says: Many died of the small-pox.
White-Cow-Killer calls it “Little-small-pox winter.”
In Mato Sapa’s drawing the head of the figure is distinguished from that of 1801-’02.
1819-’20.—No. I. Another trading store built.
No. II. Another trading store was built; this time by Louis La Conte, at Fort Pierre, Dakota. His timber, as one of the Indians consulted specially mentioned, was rotten.
No. III. Trading post built on the Missouri River above Farm Island (near Fort Pierre).
Battiste Good says: “Chozé-built-a-house-of-rotten-wood winter.”