By the spring of 1848, he had accumulated enough to lay in a supply of traders goods, and removed to "Scotts Bluff Hills." Scotts Bluffs were originally designated in the plural, and extended along the range, intersecting with the main Chalk mountains to the south and southwest.

Robideaux built a small trading station near the springs near the head of a canyon, and put up a blacksmith shop to continue his trade. John Evans Brown mentions him as "Rebedere," and says, "it was at that well known springs in the Scotts Bluffs." The springs referred to are those just above Woolridge's place. Brown was a forty-niner. Later he moved farther from the hills apparently to avoid danger from Arapahoe raids.

Some years later, Robideaux returned to his native city, St. Genevieve, old, browned and hardened, but with abundant means to put in the rest of his life without fear of poverty.

History connects the naming of Kiowa creek with Robideaux, in that the same raiders from the souih who burned the trading post were the following morning completely wiped out on the creek.

The regular hunting ground of the Kiowas is south of the Arkansas, and east of the Purgatory. As a tribe they are more often mentioned as Comanches, by early writers. They wen- very warlike and treacherous, ami often engaged in raids upon emigrants along the

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

Santa Fe trail. On occasions, bands would reach the Platte, but not very frequently were they as far as the North river.