This man Richards gave the federal authorities no little trouble, but in resisting a detachment from Fort Laramie, which had been seent out to destroy the quantity of liquor which he had brought in from the south, he was killed about 1850.

ROBIDEAUX OF ST. GENEVIEVE -- KIOWA RAID BY RED CLOUD

Sources of information in matters of history are often widely scattered, and the stories themselves are made from putting together little fragments gathered here and there ; some from records, and others from ptrsonal encounters with people having fragmentary knowledge of the events which one is trying to assemble.

The stories herein contained, of Count Germain, of Basil Robideaux, and of Kiowa creek come to us through many sources. D'Adelbert, Diderot, Chittendon, Bancroft, Parkman, Coutant, and other chroniclers of the past have each yielded up a portion, but perhaps the most valuable information we have in this connection comes from old timers living and dead who were of later generations here.

There was Frank Vallet, a Frenchman; Hank Wise, the cross-eyed cowpuncher, both from old St. Genevieve ; and there was Nick Genice, a well known squawman living at the old Spotted Tail Agency which used to be upon the ground now occupied by the upper PF ranch.

(For those who care to know, the exact location was where the spring house is now situated, just southeast of the big spring.)

Last, but not least, there was old "Buckskin Charley" White, the intrepid government scout.

From these, and partly through the kindly offices of Perry Braziel, Runey Campbell and John Peters, I am able to patch together an interesting tale, which otherwise would likely have remained in obscurity, and forever lost. The story I feel is so nearly correct, that it can be vouched for as to accuracy, comparable with most history.