outs here, but they
are worthless. I have heard that the Crows are good scouts, and I have
sent for you to come to my command. I have given General Terry six
hundred dollars for the use of you Crow Indians as scouts. I have called
you Indians here not to fight but to trace the enemy and tell me where
they are; I do not want you to fight. You find the Indians and I will do
the fighting. With all these dollars I have given you I want you to go
into the steamboat and buy some shirts and paint. We will leave here in
two days. We will follow the Little Rosebud up." That evening the Mandans
danced with us, and they gave us some money. Then Custer said: "I think
you are good Indians. I will have the cook prepare our dinner, and you
can eat alongside of me. I will have a tent put up here and you can camp
near me." Within two days we started on our journey. We got on our
horses and started with Custer up the Little Rosebud. The whole command
were with us. He asked us where we saw the last Sioux camp while we were
scouting for Terry. We told him we would not be near there until
to-morrow. The next morning we were at the place where we saw the last
camp of the Sioux. Then we followed the Sioux trail. We found the trail,
and saw that it forked on the Little Rosebud River. Custer gave orders
for Goes-Ahead to follow one trail, and for me to follow the other to see
which was the largest camp. We found that the trails came together after
a while and that the Sioux were all in one camp. When we got to the camp,
we saw that a battle had been fought, for we found the scalps and the
beards of white men. We went back that night and reported to Custer. It
was pretty late, but Custer's cook was up and had a light in his tent.
Then Custer told the cook to give the boys their meal. After we got
through our supper we went to his tent as Custer wanted to see us. We
took with us some of the scalps and white men's beards, and showed them to
Custer. Then Custer asked us if the camp separated or came together, and
we told him it came together. Then Custer said: "This is the main
point--these Sioux have been killing white people, and I have been sent
here by the Great Father to conquer them and bring them back to their
reservation. I am a great chief, but I do not know whether I will get
through this summer alive or dead. There will be nothing more good for
the Sioux--if they massacre me, they will still suffer, and if they